Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Defense Logistics
Overview
Gallatin seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, availability, and performance of production systems supporting a national security logistics platform, including in classified and air-gapped environments. You will join a team of AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes experts building AI-driven decision systems from factory to foxhole. This role requires an active Secret clearance and a willingness to travel >50% to government sites. You will lead incident response, automate toil, and harden systems to DoD standards, making an immediate impact on mission-critical uptime.
What You'll Do9
- 1Own reliability, availability, and performance for production systems, including services in classified and air-gapped environments, using Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog.
- 2Lead incident response from detection through triage, resolution, and blameless postmortem, implementing fixes that prevent recurrence.
- 3Design and operate CI/CD pipelines with Terraform and Ansible across cloud and classified networks, enabling safe, frequent deployments.
- 4Automate manual operational work: deployments, scaling, failover, and credential rotation to eliminate single points of failure.
- 5Harden systems to meet RMF, STIGs, and ATO requirements without slowing delivery.
- 6Partner with software engineers to define SLOs/SLIs and embed reliability into service design.
- 7Work directly with government customers to translate mission constraints into system requirements.
- 8Write runbooks and architecture docs so the team can operate what you build.
- 9Travel >50% to customer and government sites for hands-on deployments and support.
Requirements10
- 1Active Secret clearance required; eligibility for higher clearance.
- 23-5 years in SRE, DevOps, or production infrastructure roles.
- 3Strong technical background in Linux systems, networking, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GovCloud).
- 4Hands-on with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible or similar) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
- 5Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment systems.
- 6Proficiency with monitoring and observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK or similar).
- 7Track record of owning production incidents end-to-end.
- 8Comfort operating in classified, air-gapped, or network-constrained environments.
- 9Clear communicator for both engineers and government stakeholders.
- 10Willingness to travel >50% of the time.
Salary Insight
$80 - $210k per year
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