Site Reliability Engineer

CADRE GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS

About The Position

The Site Reliability Engineer will support a large federal technology modernization effort focused on improving the reliability, visibility, and performance of cloud-native applications and services across a national benefits platform. This role focuses heavily on observability, telemetry, monitoring, and performance engineering within a modern serverless environment. You’ll work closely with development, operations, and platform teams to help build the standards, tooling, and engineering patterns used across serverless services. This role goes beyond writing Lambda code. You’ll help define how services are instrumented, deployed, monitored, and optimized across the platform.

Requirements

3+ years of experience supporting cloud-native applications, performance engineering, or observability platforms
Experience with AWS serverless technologies including Lambda, CloudWatch, API Gateway, and related services
Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, or similar tools
Familiarity with OpenTelemetry or AWS ADOT instrumentation practices
Experience supporting CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows
Understanding of distributed systems, logging, tracing, and performance analysis concepts
Experience troubleshooting performance issues across cloud environments
Familiarity with scripting or development languages such as Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Java
Understanding of DevOps and Agile software delivery practices
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or other required government clearance

Nice To Haves

Federal government experience is a plus

Responsibilities

Build and maintain observability, telemetry, logging, and monitoring solutions for serverless applications and services
Support performance analysis, troubleshooting, and optimization efforts across distributed cloud environments
Develop and maintain engineering patterns and standards for AWS Lambda services
Implement instrumentation using AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT)
Support monitoring and alerting capabilities using Dynatrace, Splunk, and related observability tools
Work with development and DevOps teams to integrate monitoring and telemetry into CI/CD pipelines
Assist with diagnosing system bottlenecks, latency issues, and application performance concerns
Support automated testing, deployment, and operational readiness activities
Help improve operational visibility, tracing, and logging consistency across environments
Participate in Agile delivery activities, release coordination, and operational support efforts