Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Arlington, VA) - Relocation Provided
Onebrief · Remote · United States | Remote ·
COMPENSATION
$180k – $220k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Senior SRE Role
- Relocate to Arlington, VA
- Active Secret Clearance
- AWS & On-Premise DoD
- Kubernetes & Terraform
Join Onebrief’s Infrastructure & Security team to support mission-critical deployments for military planning and operational coordination. You will bridge cloud and on-premise environments, focusing on stability, performance, and security while shaping operational policies.
This position requires regular on-site work in Arlington, VA, with relocation assistance provided. You will collaborate with security and customer success teams to deliver best-in-class service quality and issue resolution.
What you'll do
- Design and manage observability platforms using Prometheus, Loki, Alloy, and Grafana
- Define Service Level Indicators and Objectives to measure and uphold system reliability
- Lead incident response efforts and conduct blameless post-mortems to prevent recurrence
- Build secure, resilient Kubernetes clusters and environments using Infrastructure-as-Code
- Embed security and compliance controls like RMF and STIGs into automation workflows
- Identify and eliminate operational toil by building automation and sharing best practices
What you'll need
- Active Top Secret security clearance is required
- Five or more years of experience in Platform, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Ansible
- Strong experience with Kubernetes design, deployment, and operations
- Ability to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions
- Scripting proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash
- Familiarity with AWS or AWS GovCloud environments
- Experience with observability stacks like Grafana, ELK, or Datadog
Nice to have
- Experience in DoD environments with RMF, STIGs, or ICD 503 compliance frameworks
- Knowledge of GitOps practices and toolchains
- Experience designing meaningful SLIs and SLOs for distributed systems
- Familiarity with on-premise virtualization like VMware, Proxmox, or Nutanix
- Exposure to service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd
- Relevant certifications like AWS DevOps Engineer, CKA, or CKAD
- Active Security+ or other DoD 8570.01-approved security credentials
Stack
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Loki
- Alloy
- AWS
- Python
- Go
- Bash
- GitLab CI/CD
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
How you'll work
- Regular on-site work required at customer locations in Arlington, VA
- Relocation assistance provided for candidates outside commuting distance
- Work involves both on-premise DoD environments and AWS cloud environments