Site Reliability Engineer Level 2

Peraton•Laurel, MD

3d•$146,000 - $234,000

About The Position

Peraton is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer Level 2 to support the reliability, automation, deployment, and operational sustainment of mission-critical, cloud-hosted applications in large-scale AWS environments. The role is a senior technical contributor responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining automated deployment and infrastructure solutions while ensuring production systems are performant, scalable, secure, and resilient. Candidates must meet 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.
Seven years of experience in system engineering/architecture.
Seven years of experience working with products that support highly distributed, massively parallel computation needs, such as HBase, Hadoop, Accumulo, Bigtable, Cassandra, or Scality.
At least seven years of experience writing software scripts using scripting languages such as Perl, Python, or Ruby for software automation.
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 and is considered equivalent to two years of experience.
A Master's degree in a technical field is considered equivalent to four years of experience.

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 employees and their dependents on critical National Security programs.
25 days of PTO accrued annually, up to a generous PTO cap.
Eligible employees may participate in an attractive bonus plan.
Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
Life insurance.
Health savings account.
Short- and long-term disability.
Employee assistance program (EAP).
Parental leave.
401(k).
Paid time off for vacation.
Company-paid holidays.