Site Reliability Engineer
General Dynamics Information Technology•USA VA Home Office (VAHOME), VA
•$164,382 - $215,050•Remote
About The Position
GDIT is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help ensure the resilience, performance, and reliability of mission‑critical Defense systems. In this role, you will blend software engineering, automation, and operations expertise to build scalable platforms, reduce toil, and enable high‑velocity delivery.
Requirements
- 15+ years in this space; system reliability, DevSecOps, cloud operations, or infrastructure engineering.
- Bachelor's with 15 years or an additional 4 years of work experience in lieu of degree
- Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell, etc.).
- Hands‑on experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, Datadog, etc.).
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
- Understanding of networking, Linux system internals, and distributed systems.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues across the stack.
- US Citizenship Required
- Candidate must possess active secret to start, and ability to attain Top Secret/SCI
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting DoD or other federal programs.
- Certifications such as Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), AWS/Azure, or ITIL.
- Experience implementing SRE frameworks at scale.
Responsibilities
- Build/Design and maintain highly available, scalable systems across cloud and on‑prem environments.
- Develop automation solutions that improves observability, speeds recovery, and eliminates manual operational work.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and performance tuning strategies that ensure system health.
- Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to design reliable architectures and CI/CD pipelines.
- Conduct root cause analysis and drive systemic improvements to prevent future incidents.
- Champion SRE best practices such as SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and automated incident response.
- Provide inputs into proposal operations in area of subject matter expertise, collaborating on solution elements and providing written narratives that describe technical solution elements designed for a specific opportunity.
Benefits
- variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- dental plan options
- a vision plan
- a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
- full flex work weeks where possible
- a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
- 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness
- an additional 10 paid holidays per year
- The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
- short and long-term disability benefits
- life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
