Senior SRE Engineer

Astreya • Remote, CA, CA

3d • Remote

About The Position

The Senior SRE Engineer will build and operate secure cloud foundations for FedRAMP High and IL5. This is an independent senior engineering role responsible for owning large features or bounded cloud foundation systems with minimal guidance. The engineer will design and build AWS GovCloud foundations, account-provisioning automation, service control policies, guardrails, shared Terraform modules, cloud resource standards, FinOps reporting, and compliance-oriented automation. The role requires practical cloud infrastructure judgment, collaboration with other teams, and mentoring engineers adopting secure and compliant cloud practices. The position is remote, with a preference for Pacific time zone hours. Citizenship is required.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience in SRE, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure software.
• Hands-on experience with AWS multi-account environments, AWS Organizations, IAM, Terraform, and cloud governance.
• Experience building automation in Python, Go, Ruby, or similar languages.
• Familiarity with Control Tower, Account Factory for Terraform, CloudFormation, EventBridge, Lambda, SQS, IAM Identity Center, or similar AWS platform services.
• Strong understanding of reliability, security, cost management, and developer-experience tradeoffs in cloud platforms.
• Ability to partner with engineering teams as a trusted advisor while enforcing clear cloud standards.
• Strong written communication and comfort documenting processes for audit, handoff, and operational support.
• U.S. citizenship is required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AWS GovCloud, FedRAMP, DoD IL5, FIPS, or regulated SaaS environments.
• Experience with FinOps, cloud cost reporting, guardrail platforms, compliance automation, or account-provisioning workflows.
• Experience building reusable Terraform modules or paved-road cloud patterns for internal engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate AWS GovCloud foundations for FedRAMP High and IL5, including AWS Organizations, Control Tower, account-provisioning lifecycle, and account automation.
• Implement and maintain service control policies, landing-zone patterns, and cloud governance automation.
• Build reusable infrastructure-as-code modules and paved-road patterns that enable secure, consistent deployments.
• Support standardized cloud resource creation and management, including VPC patterns, prefix lists, IAM patterns, and account-level controls.
• Build or adapt Cloud Foundations services for federal use, including cloud account workflows, email service enablement, GCP project/key management, FinOps reporting, and cloud compliance automation.
• Partner with other teams to translate FedRAMP High and IL5 requirements into practical cloud architecture and operating models.
• Participate in responder duties, cost anomaly response, cloud support channels, operational ticket triage, and production support.
• Produce documentation, runbooks, design notes, and evidence-friendly operational records.
• Provide guidance and technical feedback to engineers adopting secure cloud patterns.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed