Cleared Senior Site Reliability Engineer

The role

You will own the reliability, availability, and performance of production systems for a logistics decision platform. This includes building monitoring pipelines, managing CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code, and leading incident response in cloud and classified environments.

What you will do

• Own the reliability, availability, and performance of production systems supporting the logistics decision platform.
• Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability pipelines.
• Lead incident response for production issues and run blameless postmortems.
• Design and operate CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code.
• Automate manual operational work like deployments, scaling, and failover.
• Harden systems to meet DoD security and compliance requirements.
• Partner with software engineers to define SLOs/SLIs.
• Work with government customers and field teams to translate constraints into system requirements.
• Document runbooks, architecture decisions, and operational procedures.

Required qualifications

• Active Secret clearance required; willingness and eligibility to obtain a higher-level clearance if needed.
• 3–5 years of experience in a site reliability engineering, DevOps, or production infrastructure role.
• Strong technical background in Linux systems, networking, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GovCloud equivalents).
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, or similar).
• Hands-on experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment systems.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, or similar).
• Track record of owning production incidents end-to-end.
• Comfort operating in classified, air-gapped, or otherwise network-constrained environments.
• Clear written and verbal communicator.
• Willing to travel >50% of the time to customer and government sites.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including Azure Government (GCC High) or Azure Government Secret / IL5–IL6 environments.
• Experience achieving or maintaining an Authority to Operate (ATO) under RMF in a DoD or federal environment.
• Experience standing up or operating in multi-cloud environments spanning AWS and Azure.
• Familiarity with edge or disconnected/degraded/intermittent/limited (DDIL) deployment patterns.
• Prior experience at an early-stage startup or other fast-moving, high-ownership engineering team.
• Background in logistics, supply chain, or defense sustainment systems.

Benefits

• Base salary
• Generous equity grant
• Full healthcare coverage
• 401k
• Unlimited PTO

Before you apply

• Active Secret clearance required
• Willingness and eligibility to obtain a higher-level clearance if needed
• U.S. citizenship is a requirement for all positions
• Proof of citizenship will be required prior to employment
• Must be able to work in a classified environment when necessary

About the company

Gallatin is rebuilding logistics infrastructure for the national security missions of the United States and allied partners. They build AI systems that determine how logistics decisions are made.