[Remote] Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ad Hoc LLC is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for the availability, performance, and reliability of a large federal enterprise cloud platform, shaping the platform's reliability strategy and ensuring operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Defining and maintaining service level objectives (SLOs), service level indicators, and error budgets, and driving the platform toward them
- Designing and operating observability across metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
- Leading incident response and on-call practices, including escalation, mitigation, and time-to-recovery improvements
- Driving blameless postmortems and systemic reliability improvements
- Engineering automation to eliminate toil and improve operational efficiency
- Self-directed design of reliable cloud infrastructure (AWS) and Kubernetes (Amazon EKS), including tradeoffs between cost, reliability, and efficiency
- Building reusable modules and mentoring engineers on reliability practices
- Presenting design documents and system diagrams to stakeholders
- Participating in technical depth interviews with new candidates
Skills
- Bachelor's and 7+ years of experience; relevant experience may be substituted for education
- Demonstrated experience owning reliability (SLOs, observability, incident response) for production systems
- Expert-level knowledge of at least one infrastructure-as-code tool (Terraform preferred)
- Deep command of cloud infrastructure, containerization, and networking
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Public Trust / suitability determination
- Prior experience with the Department of Veterans Affairs
- Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) and AWS at scale
- Familiarity with FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, and zero-trust architecture
- Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS, CKA/CKS)
Benefits
- Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible PTO
- 401K with employer match
- Paid parental leave after one year of service
- Employee Assistance Program
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