Site Reliability Engineer

ClearanceJobs Worforce Solutions is actively seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps) for our client located in San Francisco, CA. ClearanceJobs is the largest career network for professionals with federal government security clearances, connecting cleared talent with the opportunities that matter most. We are committed to matching top-tier candidates with clients who depend on mission-focused professionals to support national security, defense, and intelligence community initiatives. Our team works closely with hiring managers to understand their needs and deliver candidates who are not only technically qualified but cleared and ready to contribute from day one.

Responsibilities will include, but not limited to:

• Design, implement, and continuously optimize scalable infrastructure to support a growing production environment, including capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Maintain and enhance whitebox and blackbox monitoring and observability (metrics, logging, tracing), using tools such as Datadog and PagerDuty to drive reliable alerting and fast incident response.
• Support and safeguard existing ETL pipelines, partnering with data teams to ensure pipeline reliability and data quality.
• Manage CI/CD and build systems to keep development workflows reliable and developer productivity high.
• Maintain and iterate on existing Terraform-based infrastructure as code, focused on optimization and hardening rather than net-new builds.
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation as the primary responder for production incidents, developing and automating playbooks to reduce downtime and manual toil., * San Francisco, CA (SoMa) -100% on-site (preferred location)
• Remote candidates considered near Omaha, NE (proximity to Offutt AFB), Boston, MA, or the Washington, DC metro area, tied to client site needs.
• Travel to a client site roughly every two to three months (quarterly, potentially more frequent depending on contract needs) should be expected, for both cleared and uncleared hires, across both roles.

• 6+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps roles.
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code tools, particularly Terraform.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and/or Google Cloud.
• Strong background in software engineering and CI/CD pipeline management.
• Experience with on-call operations and incident management.
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools such as Datadog and PagerDuty.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Candidates local to San Francisco, CA
• Expertise in managing and scaling distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of networking, security, and Linux systems.
• Experience automating infrastructure and deployment processes.
• Familiarity with message queues (SNS/SQS) and caching systems (Redis).
• Knowledge of ML workflows and GPU resource management is a plus.
• Comfort working in Python, the team’s primary language.
• A collaborative, communicative style with a strong sense of initiative - this team is small and startup-paced, so self-starters who flag issues early are highly valued.

Clearance Requirements:

• Must currently hold, or be able to obtain, an active US Secret clearance
• Ability to work on US federal government contracts requiring an active security clearance., This position requires the ability to remain in a stationary position for extended periods of time, operate standard office equipment such as a computer, keyboard, and telephone, and occasionally move about the work environment. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.