Site Reliability / Observability Engineer

Zaden Tech•Chantilly, VA
•$123,000 - $163,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Own monitoring, alerting and availability for the test infrastructure behind the Defense Health Agency's health IT programs. You will support a new Defense Health Agency program. The position is contingent upon contract award, and the start date will align with the program start. The preferred location is Chantilly, Virginia, on site at the test center. Remote work from Huntsville, Alabama, or anywhere in the continental U.S. is also possible through government-approved virtual desktop access, with trips to Chantilly when needed. U.S. citizenship is required for the background investigation this role needs. Zaden's FSO verifies investigation status.

Requirements

  • Five or more years in site reliability, systems or operations engineering.
  • Hands-on experience with a monitoring stack such as Splunk, Prometheus and Grafana, or Zabbix.
  • Experience on an incident on-call rotation.
  • U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain the background investigation designated by the Defense Health Agency for this position.
  • DoD 8140 qualification for the work role before privileged access, or the ability to earn it within six months.

Nice To Haves

  • Depth in vSphere and Linux.
  • Experience in a DoD or federal environment.
  • An active Secret clearance or higher.

Responsibilities

  • Run monitoring, observability and alerting across both enclaves.
  • Define availability measures and the dashboards that track them.
  • Lead incident response and post-incident reviews for Severity 1 and 2 events.
  • Automate toil out of operations.
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