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Forward Deployed Site Reliability Engineer

Fort Meade, MD💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-21 → 2026-09-25

Core

Forward Deployed Site Reliability Engineer ensuring reliability and performance of mission-critical platforms in restricted, air-gapped government environments.

Role type

Senior IC Site Reliability Engineer (Forward Deployed)

Builds

Mission-critical cyber operations platform for U.S. government and allied customers

Domain

Cybersecurity / Defense / Government Contracting

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure

Required skills

SLO/SLI definition and error budget management, incident response and root cause analysis, Linux/Unix systems administration in constrained environments, container orchestration (Docker, Docker Compose), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), observability stack (Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir), Python or Bash scripting, stakeholder communication with government entities

Preferred skills

Go programming, NATS pub/sub systems, cyber operations background, AWS certifications

Technologies

AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS, VPC), Docker, Terraform, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, PagerDuty, Python, Bash, Go

Responsibilities

Define and track SLIs/SLOs for customer environment services, lead on-site incident response and triage, maintain and improve operational runbooks, manage containerized service deployments and updates, serve as primary technical liaison between on-site operations and Arlington engineering team, perform capacity planning and flag scaling requirements

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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