Site Reliability Engineer Level 2

Peraton • Laurel, MD

2d

About The Position

This position supports the reliability, automation, deployment, and operational sustainment of mission-critical, cloud-hosted applications running in large-scale AWS environments. The successful candidate serves as a senior technical contributor, designing, implementing, and maintaining automated deployment and infrastructure solutions while ensuring the performance, scalability, security, and resilience of production systems. Candidates must meet the SRE2 labor category qualifications, including extensive experience in software engineering, systems engineering, cloud operations, automation, and large-scale distributed computing environments.

Requirements

• Eleven years of experience in software development/engineering, including requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, and problem diagnosis/resolution. A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field may count as two years of experience; a master's degree in a technical field may count as four years.
• Seven years of experience in systems engineering/architecture.
• Seven years of experience working with products that support highly distributed, massively parallel computation, such as HBase, Hadoop, Accumulo, Bigtable, Cassandra, or Scality.
• At least seven years of experience writing software scripts for automation using languages such as Perl, Python, or Ruby.
• At least three years of experience managing and monitoring large cloud systems with more than 1,000 nodes.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.
• One of the following certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate; AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional; AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate; AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional; or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).

Nice To Haves

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field is highly desired.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and sustain CI/CD pipelines supporting continuous delivery of production applications in AWS.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform and Ansible to automate provisioning, configuration management, and lifecycle operations.
• Build, optimize, and troubleshoot GitLab CI/CD pipelines supporting Python- and Java-based application deployments.
• Automate Linux system administration and operations for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 8+) and Amazon Linux environments.
• Engineer, deploy, and maintain containerized application solutions using Docker and/or Podman.
• Develop software automation, operational tooling, and test frameworks using Python and related technologies.
• Manage and extend Ansible playbooks, roles, collections, and custom plugins to support enterprise-scale automation requirements.
• Support distributed cloud environments and services, emphasizing availability, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Implement automated validation, security, compliance, and testing workflows for Infrastructure as Code deployments.
• Conduct fault-injection, chaos engineering, and resiliency testing to validate system stability and recovery capabilities.
• Monitor system health, analyze performance trends, perform root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions to improve service reliability.
• Collaborate with software developers, cloud engineers, cybersecurity teams, and system architects to deliver secure, resilient, and maintainable solutions.

Benefits

• Heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for the employee and dependents.
• 25 days of PTO accrued annually, up to a generous PTO cap.
• Eligibility to participate in a bonus plan.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short- and long-term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off for vacation, and company-paid holidays.

What This Job Offers

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