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Software Development Engineer, SRE (US Federal)

USA.VA.Reston💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-21 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build, deploy, and scale resilient Kubernetes platform solutions on AWS GovCloud for U.S. federal agencies, focusing on infrastructure automation, secure air-gapped deployments, and high-availability observability.

Role type

Senior IC Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Platform Engineer

Builds

Production-grade containerized workloads, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools for federal government clients

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, Federal Government (AWS GovCloud)

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Kubernetes cluster management, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Terragrunt), CI/CD and GitOps (Argo CD), distributed systems troubleshooting, scripting (Go/Python), security compliance implementation

Preferred skills

AWS GovCloud experience, air-gapped deployment methodologies, observability stack (Prometheus/Grafana/Splunk), federal security frameworks (FedRAMP/NIST), DoD 8570/8140 certifications

Technologies

Kubernetes, Terraform, Terragrunt, Docker, AWS, Argo CD, Go, Python, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk

Responsibilities

Run and scale complex containerized workloads on Kubernetes clusters; Provision and automate infrastructure and deployment pipelines; Design and maintain air-gapped deployment methodologies; Build and optimize monitoring, logging, and alerting systems; Troubleshoot distributed systems and network issues; Implement enterprise security standards and compliance; Author technical documentation and mentor team members

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with technical leadership

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