Sr. SRE (Reston, VA)

Insight Global is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Senior SRE) for a top cloud technology and federal compliance-focused client. This individual will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for designing, scaling, and maintaining highly available cloud infrastructure across AWS Commercial and GovCloud environments. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Terraform, and FedRAMP compliance, while playing a critical role in audit readiness, platform reliability, incident response, and automation initiatives. This is an opportunity to work on mission-critical cloud platforms, influence infrastructure architecture, drive security and compliance strategy, and mentor engineering teams in a highly visible and impactful role.

Day to day:

Design and implement highly available AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud infrastructure solutions

Architect and manage multi-region Amazon EKS/Kubernetes environments using Terraform

Lead technical preparation and participation for FedRAMP 3PAO audits and compliance reviews

Oversee vulnerability management, CVE remediation, and compliance initiatives

Participate in a rotational 24/7 on-call schedule and lead response to critical production incidents

Perform root cause analysis and drive post-mortem improvements

Build and maintain observability platforms using Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Grafana

Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets across cloud services

Design and optimize GitLab CI/CD deployment pipelines and GitOps workflows

Manage Kubernetes application deployments using Helm

Create architectural documentation, SOPs, runbooks, and audit artifacts

Automate operational processes using Python, Go, or shell scripting

Mentor junior and mid-level SRE engineers and provide technical leadership

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5-8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure Architecture

-Strong AWS expertise including VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, KMS, and Route53

-Experience with AWS GovCloud environments

-Hands-on FedRAMP High/Moderate authorization experience

-Experience leading 3PAO audits and Continuous Monitoring (ConMon) activities

-Strong knowledge of NIST SP 800-53 controls and FedRAMP compliance requirements

-Deep expertise with Amazon EKS and Kubernetes administration

-Terraform Infrastructure as Code experience

-Advanced Linux administration experience (RHEL, Amazon Linux, Ubuntu)

-Prometheus and Grafana monitoring/observability expertise

-GitLab CI/CD pipeline development experience

-Experience supporting production environments in a 24/7 on-call capacity

-Strong technical documentation and incident management skills -Python development or automation scripting experience

-Go programming experience

CISSP certification

-Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification

-AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional certification

-Experience with DISA STIG hardening standards

-Experience with FIPS 140-2/3 requirements and vulnerability remediation programs