Site Reliability Engineer, Senior Advisor

Join the Peraton Team as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE3) and Help Secure Mission-Critical Systems!

We are seeking a highly experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support large-scale, highly distributed systems in a mission-critical environment.

This role requires a strong blend of software development and system administration expertise, with a focus on designing and implementing sustainable automation solutions that improve reliability, efficiency, and operational consistency.

The ideal candidate will leverage extensive experience managing large systems to develop tools that:

• Reduce risk to production environments
• Minimize human error
• Eliminate labor-intensive and repetitive manual processes
• Improve adherence to operational procedures
• Serve as a force multiplier for monitoring and system administration teams

Automation solutions may include configuration management tools (e.g., SALT, Puppet), custom-developed GUIs for shift operations, or fully automated cluster-level solutions. The goal is to deliver sustainable tools that perform at or above the reliability of manual processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement automation solutions for large-scale distributed systems
• Develop software tools to support monitoring and system administration teams
• Provide technical direction for development, integration, and testing of hardware/software systems
• Manage and monitor large cloud-based environments
• Conduct postmortem analysis and support incident management processes
• Improve operational processes and system health visibility
• Support distributed, massively parallel data environments

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees supporting our critical National Security programs, including:

• Heavily subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents
• Eligibility to participate in a competitive bonus plan
• Generous PTO plan

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Minimum Experience Requirements (Education-Based):

• Bachelor’s Degree with 12+ years relevant experience
• Master’s Degree with 10+ years relevant experience
• PhD with 7+ years relevant experience

Required Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI with current polygraph

Required Certification (One):

AWS Developer – Associate | AWS Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional) | AWS SysOps Administrator – Associate | CKA/CKAD | Elastic Certified Engineer | Elastic Certified Observability Engineer

Experience Requirements:

• 7+ years software development/engineering experience including requirements analysis, development, integration, installation, testing, maintenance, and issue resolution
• 7+ years system engineering/architecture in large-scale environments
• 7+ years supporting distributed/parallel systems (e.g., HBase, Hadoop, Accumulo, Big Table, Cassandra, Scality)
• 7+ years scripting/automation using Python, Perl, or Ruby
• 4+ years managing and monitoring cloud-based systems
• Experience in system integration, health monitoring, incident management, and postmortem analysis
• Cloud certification will be verified during the interview or offer process.