Hybrid Senior Site Reliability Engineer III

at MetroStar

• Job title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer III
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $170,000 - $248,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, Kubernetes, VMware
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Washington, D C, United States

About the role

• Sr. Site Reliability Engineer III at MetroStar providing technical solutions for federal government. Collaborating on mission-critical application workloads and ensuring high availability.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain mission-critical application workloads on virtualized or containerized environments (e.g., VMWare or Kubernetes), ensuring scalability, availability, and compliance with government requirements.
• Develop and sustain automated CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and configuration management workflows to support reliable software delivery and operational observability across development, integration, staging, and production environments.
• Provision, configure, and maintain developer environments and toolchains to support rapid, secure, and efficient development workflows, enabling mission-aligned software delivery.
• Identify developer friction across the software development lifecycle and implement solutions to reduce that friction and provide developer-first environments.
• Establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence through deep technical expertise, and use creativity to provide innovative solutions that fit the customer’s mission needs.

Requirements

• Active Top Secret with SCI eligibility security clearance.
• Certification meeting DoD 8140 (e.g., Security+, or higher).
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related engineering field is preferred; relevant experience may substitute.
• 7+ years of experience in software development, systems engineering, or operations roles with responsibility for availability, performance, and reliability of production systems.
• Demonstrated experience blending software engineering and systems administration practices to support highly available, scalable applications.
• Experience designing and managing monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to meet defined Service Level Objectives.
• Experience leading or participating in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities.
• Experience with Ansible and Desired State Configuration.
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD automation and Bash scripting.
• Experience supporting container-native storage and object storage solutions (e.g., MinIO, S3-compatible services, and PortWorx).
• Experience with enterprise load-balancing solutions (e.g., F5 or similar platforms).
• Ability to contribute immediately with minimal ramp-up in a mission-critical operational environment.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Paid time off (PTO) and holidays
• Parental Leave and dependent care
• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development opportunities
• Employee assistance and wellness programs