Site Reliability Engineer

Job Location: Washington, DC; Hybrid

This position is eligible for a $5,000 Sign-on Bonus and Relocation Assistance, if applicable.

Overview:

Varada Consulting, LLC is seeking a full-time highly skilled and experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our team. As an SRE, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems and applications through automation, monitoring, and infrastructure improvements. You will work closely with development, operations, and security teams to implement best practices for building and maintaining highly available and secure systems.

Job Duties:

• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to automate provisioning, configuration, and management of infrastructure components.


• Utilize containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes (K8) to deploy and manage microservices-based applications.


• Employ container orchestration tools like Rancher, OpenShift, etc., to automate deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.


• Collaborate with development and security teams to integrate security practices into the DevOps pipeline and ensure compliance with security standards and policies.


• Manage Source Code repositories and CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Team Foundation Server/Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, and GitHub to automate build, test, and deployment processes.


• Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to design, build, and operate highly scalable and reliable systems that meet the needs of our customers.


• Monitor system performance, availability, and reliability using monitoring and alerting tools, and proactively identify and address issues before they impact users.


• Participate in on-call rotations, respond to incidents, troubleshoot issues, and implement permanent fixes to prevent recurrence.


• Continuously improve system reliability, scalability, and performance through capacity planning, performance tuning, and infrastructure optimizations.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.


• Minimum of 8 years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar role.


• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerization, K8, and CI/CD Automation.


• Proficiency in container orchestration tools such as Rancher, OpenShift, etc.


• Experience working in a DevSecOps environment and integrating security practices into the development and operations processes.


• Hands-on experience with Source Code repositories and CI/CD pipeline solutions like Team Foundation Server/Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, and GitHub.


• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex issues in distributed systems.


• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.

Desired:

• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana or other monitoring tools.


• Certification in relevant technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, AWS, Azure) is a plus.


• Experience in scripting and programming languages such as PowerShell, Python, Bash, or Go for automation and tooling.

Clearance Requirements:

• Active Top Secret clearance/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain Presidential Support Duty (PSD) approval (Yankee White) prior to employment

Join an Award Winning Team! Voted as Most Innovative and Fastest Growing Company, Varada Consulting offers highly customized IT capabilities in the federal civilian and DoD market space in support of the mission objectives of the federal government. Varada provides competitive compensation and benefits packages, including 100% employer paid healthcare premium, matching 401k, and unlimited education/training.

Varada Consulting, LLC is an Equal Employment Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.