Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Arlington, VA) - Relocation Provided

The role

You will own the reliability, scalability, and security of the production application and platform. You will work in both on-premise DoD environments and AWS cloud environments.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting stacks.
• Define, measure, and own alerting that feeds into SLIs and SLOs.
• Act as incident responder and potentially incident commander during critical incidents.
• Lead blameless post-mortems and After Action Reviews.
• Design, build, and manage secure, resilient Kubernetes clusters and cloud/on-prem environments using Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Embed security and compliance controls into automation.
• Identify and eliminate operational toil by building automation.
• Partner with other teams to share best practices for air-gapped environments.

Required qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance
• 5+ years in Platform, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering with an infrastructure and operations focus
• Proven partner to DevOps/Platform and application teams
• Deep understanding of incident response processes
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (or CloudFormation), Ansible
• Containers and orchestration: Kubernetes design, deployment, and operations
• CI/CD: experience building and maintaining pipelines (GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Proficiency with at least one of Python, Go, or Bash
• Familiarity with AWS or AWS GovCloud
• Observability: Grafana stack, ELK stack, or Datadog
• Networking fundamentals: core protocols and secure configurations

Nice to have

• Experience in DoD environments and compliance frameworks (RMF, STIGs, ICD 503)
• GitOps practices and toolchains
• Security-minded design for sensitive environments
• Experience designing and implementing meaningful SLIs/SLOs for complex, distributed systems
• Familiarity with on-prem virtualization (VMware, Proxmox, Nutanix, Hyper-V, etc)
• Service mesh exposure (Istio, Linkerd)
• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS DevOps Engineer, CKA/CKAD)
• Active Security+ or another DoD 8570.01-approved security credential

Benefits

• Relocation assistance

Before you apply

• Active Top Secret clearance required
• Must be willing to relocate if not within commuting distance
• Ability to obtain valid Security+ or other DoD 8570.01-approved credentials within 3 months of employment

About the company

Onebrief builds collaboration and AI-powered workflow software for military planning and operational coordination. Founded in 2019, Onebrief is backed by leading investors and is valued at more than $2 billion.