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Role: Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Type: Remote - working EST Hours
Clearance Requirement: Must be eligible for up to a Top-Secret Security Clearance.
Job SummaryThe Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will play a critical, hands-on role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of systems supporting highly classified government projects within an air-gapped deployment. This position demands expertise in both DevOps methodologies and deep coding skills to maintain up-time, resilience, and stringent compliance in a secure, disconnected environment.
Key Responsibilities- Develop robust automation, configuration management, and toolsets primarily using Ruby and Shell Scripting (CLI/PowerShell) to manage infrastructure and deployment pipelines (Git/Infrastructure Automation).
- Implement and manage advanced observability solutions with Grafana and Prometheus, along with Splunk and Elastic, to monitor system health and proactively identify issues in an air-gapped setting.
- Collaborate closely with the Lead, Infrastructure, and Security Specialists to rapidly resolve incidents and significantly improve overall system resilience.
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for system configurations, runbooks, and disaster recovery procedures tailored for a classified environment.
- Contribute an intermediate level of proficiency in Go to team projects and codebase.
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps OR SRE using Ruby for writing robust automation and tooling.
- Observability and monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus.
- CLI tools including Shell Scripting and/or PowerShell for operational tasks.
- Deploying Kubernetes in production environments.
- Git and various Infrastructure Automation tools.
- Deep administrative experience with Linux operating systems.
- Experience with Go programming language.
- Prior experience in government or defense-related SRE roles.
- Experience with Python for scripting and data analysis.
- Familiarity with packaging and deployment using Helm.
- Knowledge of network security protocols, specifically IPSec
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Orion is a leading digital transformation and product development services firm. Headquartered in Edison, NJ, we have a global team of 6,200+ associates, with engineers in 14 major delivery centers across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America.
For over 25 years, Orion has been solving complex business problems for our clients. Our transformative business solutions are rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, empowering our clients to operate with agility at scale.
Our mission is to serve as an agile and trusted partner for business transformation initiatives, providing deep emerging technology, experience design, and domain expertise.
Our business has more than tripled over the last three years.
We have grown aggressively both organically and inorganically, adding new clients, complementary skills, domain expertise, and strengthening our global footprint.
