Hybrid Senior Site Reliability Engineer

at Onebrief

• Job title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $180,000 - $220,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Docker, Grafana, Kubernetes, Linux, Prometheus, Terraform, VMware
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Colorado Springs, United States

About the role

• Site Reliability Engineer responsible for application reliability and security in DoD environments. Collaborating with Infrastructure & Security team to enhance service quality and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• You'll own the reliability, scalability, and security of the production application and/or platform.
• Building a World-Class Observability Platform: Design, implement, and manage our monitoring, logging, and alerting stack (e.g., Prometheus, Loki, Alloy, and Grafana).
• Defining and Upholding Reliability: Define, measure, and own alerting that feeds into our Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
• Leading Incident Response: Act as the incident responder and potentially incident commander during critical incidents.
• Automating for Scale and Security: Partner with platform engineers to design, build, and manage secure, resilient Kubernetes clusters.
• Eliminating Toil and Scaling the Team: Proactively identify and eliminate operational toil by building automation.

Requirements

• 3 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or a related field, with firsthand experience managing mission-critical systems within DoD’s air-gapped environments
• An active Top Secret security clearance. U.S. citizenship required.
• Experience automating software delivery, deployment, and providing documentation and self-service tools for engineering teams and customers.
• A strong understanding of Linux, containerization and orchestration, and virtual machines
• Experience with centralized logging, metrics, and observability using tools such as Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, ELK stack, or Datadog.
• Networking fundamentals: core protocols and secure configurations.
• A deep understanding of incident response processes, with experience conducting thorough root cause analyses and driving continuous improvement
• Clear, concise writing; strong documentation habits and async communication.
• Core skills and technologies: VMWare, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Ansible, Terraform, Linux, AWS, DoD compliance, Monitoring and Observability tools, AWS.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance provided
• Active Top Secret Clearance required; SCI eligibility is a plus.