Senior SRE - Government Cloud Operations

The role

You will build and sustain regulated cloud platforms through FedRAMP High / IL4 operational lifecycles. You will administer internal platforms and participate in architectural and operational decisions to improve reliability, security, and compliance.

What you will do

• Own production operations for mission-critical services including availability, latency, scalability, and operational health.
• Design, build, and operate highly available cloud infrastructure for regulated environments.
• Lead major incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortem remediation.
• Drive operational maturity through change governance, disaster recovery testing, and service resiliency programs.
• Operationalize compliance requirements including NIST 800-53 controls and STIG baselines.
• Support regulated environment readiness through audit preparation, evidence collection, and continuous monitoring.
• Develop automation and tooling to maintain platform compliance posture.
• Implement and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Partner with Security, Compliance, and Engineering teams to improve service reliability and deployment safety.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, Cloud Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Hands-on experience operating cloud infrastructure in regulated environments such as FedRAMP Moderate/High, DoD IL4/IL5, or equivalent, including AWS GovCloud or other isolated government cloud enviro
• Experience supporting cloud authorization efforts (ATO) and sustaining environments post-authorization through continuous monitoring.
• Strong knowledge of NIST 800-53 controls, vulnerability remediation SLAs, secure configuration management, and audit evidence generation.
• Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code, GitOps workflows, and secure CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash for operational automation and tooling development.
• Proficiency with cloud-native technologies including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Solid understanding of Linux/Unix operating systems.
• Experience supporting production operations for SaaS, cloud service provider, or multi-tenant platforms at scale.
• Ability to communicate operational risk and compliance posture clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Terraform preferred
• Experience working directly with 3PAOs, auditors, or compliance assessors during authorization and continuous monitoring cycles.
• Familiarity with STIG implementation across Kubernetes, Linux systems, and container runtimes.
• Understanding of Zero Trust architectures and secure access platforms.
• Experience with operational resilience exercises and disaster recovery validation.

Benefits

• health/vision/dental insurance
• 401(k)
• stock options
• Health Savings/Flexible Spending Accounts
• flexible time-off
• paid parental leave
• disability benefits

About the company

Cato Networks is the converged network and security cloud for the AI era. The company provides a unified, cloud-native platform to prioritize risks and stop threats across users, applications, data, and AI agents.