SES Corporation
SES Corporation
51 – 200 Employees
ConsultingDefenseHealthcare
SES Corporation is an IT consulting and systems engineering firm serving government and commercial organizations. Its work spans IT modernization, integrated security, managed services, and process optimization, helping clients address complex enterprise challenges through collaborative problem-solving. The company brings together engineering specialists and supports continued professional development through advanced training, making it relevant to professionals interested in consulting, defense, healthcare, and technology-focused work.

Reliability Engineer - Cloud Systems

Support U.S. Air Force Cloud One by building resilient, observable, and automated cloud systems. Manage service objectives, incident response, disaster recovery, and compliance readiness.

Description

  • Build and operate highly available, fault-tolerant systems across cloud and hybrid environments
  • Establish, measure, and communicate service level indicators, objectives, and error budgets
  • Assess reliability risks and apply mitigations throughout the system lifecycle
  • Perform capacity planning and develop performance models
  • Deploy and administer monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing platforms
  • Set meaningful alert thresholds and evaluate reliability metrics and trends
  • Join on-call rotations and direct responses to production incidents
  • Lead cross-functional troubleshooting with development, infrastructure, and security teams
  • Facilitate post-incident analysis and define corrective and preventive actions
  • Monitor repeat incidents and drive issues through root-cause resolution
  • Automate operational work and create scripts, tools, and services that increase reliability and reduce mean time to recovery
  • Contribute reliability, resilience, and recoverability considerations to architecture and design reviews
  • Verify disaster recovery and business continuity procedures, including failover testing
  • Assist with chaos engineering, fault injection, and resilience testing
  • Collaborate with DevOps, Platform, and Security teams
  • Maintain reliability standards, runbooks, and operational documentation
  • Contribute to compliance and audit work covering FedRAMP, FISMA, and internal operational controls

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree with at least eight years of experience, or a master’s degree with at least six years; additional experience may substitute for the degree
  • An active Secret clearance is required at the start
  • U.S. citizenship is required
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP, including managed services
  • Experience operating container platforms including Docker and Kubernetes
  • Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
  • Experience defining and using service level objectives and error budgets
  • Experience with capacity modeling and performance testing
  • Strong knowledge of distributed systems and highly available architectures
  • Strong knowledge of Linux and Windows system administration
  • Strong knowledge of networking fundamentals, including DNS, TCP/IP, and load balancing
  • Practical experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Elastic, Datadog, or Azure Monitor
  • Practical experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform, ARM, or CloudFormation
  • Practical scripting or programming experience with Python, Bash, Go, PowerShell, or a comparable language
  • Experience with incident management and on-call operations
  • Preferred: experience with USAF Cloud One or Platform 1
  • Preferred: experience with Zero Trust Architecture
  • Preferred: cloud certification from AWS, Azure, Google, or Oracle

Benefits

  • Medical coverage
  • Dental coverage
  • Vision coverage
  • AD&D insurance
  • Short-term disability insurance
  • Long-term disability insurance
  • Company-paid life insurance
  • 401(k) with employer contribution
  • Paid time off
  • Pet insurance

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