Peraton
Peraton
Peraton is a mission-focused enterprise technology company serving national security, military, and government customers. Its work spans advanced IT and cyber services, including cyber defense, cloud operations, engineering, intelligence, and data-driven technology solutions. Peraton brings together large, specialized teams to address complex operational and security challenges, with roles supporting the delivery of technology capabilities for critical missions.

Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Peraton Remote

Peraton is hiring a senior cloud SRE to build reliable AWS platforms with Python and Terraform. The role focuses on automation, observability, incident response, and reliability engineering for national security missions.

Description

  • Engineer and maintain Python-based reliability tooling and SRE utilities across AWS environments
  • Create Python scripts, APIs, and utilities that automate recurring work and strengthen platform reliability
  • Deploy observability and monitoring with Grafana and AWS CloudWatch
  • Develop and refine Terraform infrastructure code for AWS resources and SRE capabilities
  • Build CI/CD workflows and automated test coverage
  • Establish SRE standards, practices, guidance, and measures including SLIs and SLOs
  • Use version control, peer review, test-driven development, and thorough documentation
  • Support incident response activities and participate in an on-call schedule
  • Assist users of SRE tools and diagnose issues affecting production systems
  • Work with partner teams to prevent repeat incidents through early detection and pattern analysis
  • Track developments in AWS, SRE practice, and cloud-native engineering
  • Partner with cross-functional groups operating in Agile and Scaled Agile environments
  • Write blameless postmortems that capture failure scenarios and assign actionable follow-up work

Requirements

  • U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust clearance
  • A bachelor’s degree with 8 years of experience, or a high school diploma or equivalent with 12 years of experience
  • At least 5 years of advanced Python development building enterprise-grade, highly available AWS tools, APIs, and utilities
  • At least 7 years of software development focused on reliability and platform engineering
  • At least 3 years of hands-on solution development in AWS environments
  • Deep knowledge of AWS services including EC2, VPC, S3, Lambda, IAM, CloudFormation, EventBridge, and Step Functions
  • Experience optimizing AWS resource costs
  • At least 3 years applying SRE practices such as observability, toil automation, SLIs/SLOs, and reliability engineering
  • Expertise in Terraform infrastructure as code, including module development and state management
  • Strong background with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and DevOps practices
  • Experience using Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, and AWS Canary
  • Experience defining, implementing, and managing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
  • Familiarity with root-cause analysis and postmortem reporting
  • Professional experience in Agile and Scaled Agile environments
  • Familiarity with IT service management, resilience testing, and chaos engineering

Benefits

  • Overtime eligibility may apply
  • Shift-differential eligibility may apply
  • A discretionary bonus may be available
  • Peraton is an equal opportunity employer, including for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans

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