Job Description

is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for a high-impact role with a premier client based in Washington, DC . In this position, you will bridge the gap between development and operations by applying a software engineering mindset to system administration and infrastructure. You will be responsible for ensuring the scalability, performance, and high availability of cloud-based services across AWS and Azure environments. By leveraging Infrastructure-as-Code, advanced observability with Dynatrace, and SRE principles like error budgets and SLOs, you will drive operational excellence and lead incident response efforts for mission-critical applications.

• Deployment & Automation: Architect and manage CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline) and automate global infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK.
• Performance & Capacity: Drive cost-optimization initiatives, manage auto-scaling thresholds, and execute resiliency/performance testing to ensure system durability.
• Incident Management: Act as a primary on-call responder using ITIL frameworks and ServiceNow; develop Root Cause Analysis (RCA) documentation and maintain knowledge bases.
• Observability & Monitoring: Implement distributed tracing and optimize monitoring via Dynatrace and Kibana to create advanced dashboards and anomaly detection.
• Reliability Engineering: Define and monitor SLIs and SLOs while managing error budgets to balance feature velocity with system stability.
• Security & Compliance: Oversee service accounts, manage digital certificates, and execute rapid remediation for security incidents.

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience: 2 to 4 years of professional experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure roles.
• Cloud Proficiency: Practical, hands-on experience with both AWS and Azure platforms.
• Technical Skills: Mid-level proficiency in Python (or similar scripting languages) and configuration management tools like Ansible.
• Containerization: Solid understanding of Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes or ECS.
• Infrastructure Fundamentals: Strong knowledge of Linux systems, networking protocols, and both Relational/NoSQL database architectures.
• Soft Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to manage competing priorities independently.
• Flexibility: Ability to participate in a production on-call rotation, including work outside standard business hours.

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This is a high PRIORITY requisition. This is a PROACTIVE requisition

Background Check : No

Drug Screen : No

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