Senior DevOps​/SRE Engineer

Overview

Job Category: Engineer

Job Type: Onsite

Job Location: District of Columbia Washington

Compensation: Depends on Experience

W2: W2-Contract Only;
Kindly note that applications on a C2C basis will not be considered for this role.

Job Description: We are seeking a high-caliber Senior Dev Ops/SRE Engineer to join a mission-critical team in Washington, DC, focused on maturing our cloud-native ecosystem. In this role, you will bridge the gap between development and operations by architecting resilient infrastructure, implementing robust SRE principles like SLOs and error budgeting, and driving a “Security-First” CI/CD culture. As a technical leader, you will not only manage high-availability AWS environments and Kubernetes orchestration but also serve as a force multiplier for our engineering teams by building self-service platforms and automated governance tools that ensure operational excellence and cost-efficiency.

• Reliability & Incident Management:
  Define and maintain SLOs/SLIs, manage error budgets, and lead high-level incident response and blameless postmortem analyses.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
  Architect and maintain secure, scalable environments using Terraform, Ansible, and Cloud Formation to ensure repeatable deployments.
• CI/CD & Deployment Strategy:
  Design secure delivery pipelines (Git Hub Actions/Jenkins) incorporating automated rollbacks, canary releases, and blue-green deployment patterns.
• Comprehensive Observability:
  Build and manage full-stack telemetry pipelines, dashboards, and alerting systems using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or ELK.
• Sec Dev Ops  Integration:
  Enforce security-as-code by integrating SAST/DAST, secrets scanning, and SBOM validation into the automated software development lifecycle.
• Efficiency & Fin Ops:
  Monitor cloud spend trends and implement right-sizing strategies to ensure high performance at an optimal cost-to-value ratio.
• Internal Enablement:
  Develop shared playbooks, reusable automation modules, and self-service tools to boost developer velocity and reduce friction.
• Technical Leadership:
  Mentor cross-functional teams and establish organization-wide best practices for fault tolerance and operational readiness.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience:
  
  5+ years in Dev Ops, SRE, or Platform Engineering, including leadership experience in production automation.
• Cloud Expertise: 3+ years of hands-on experience managing high-availability production environments, specifically within AWS (IAM, Networking, Compute).
• Containerization:
  Deep proficiency with Kubernetes, Docker, and Linux systems administration.
• Tooling Mastery:
  Advanced experience with Terraform, Git Ops patterns, and CI/CD security tollgates.
• Automation
  
  Skills:
  
  Strong scripting proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash for custom tool development.
• Operational Mindset:
  Proven track record in chaos engineering, capacity modeling, and managing complex observability stacks.
• Communication:
  Exceptional ability to document technical architectures and lead collaborative engineering initiatives.