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# SRE Technical Lead

- **Company:** Zachary Piper
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $180,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Engineering, Disaster Recovery, Performance Tuning, Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, Grafana, Kubernetes, Terraform
- **Published:** September 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9162454/sre-technical-lead

## About the Role

* Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance.

 * 7+ years of infrastructure, cloud engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering experience.

 * Expertise with Kubernetes administration and orchestration.

 * Strong hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code methodologies.

 * Experience supporting cloud environments within AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

 * Knowledge of observability tools, incident management processes, and system performance tuning.

 * Previous leadership or team lead experience.

## Description

* Lead the design, implementation, and support of Kubernetes-based production environments.

 * Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions utilizing Terraform.

 * Establish reliability standards including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and disaster recovery initiatives.

 * Collaborate with engineering and architecture teams to improve system scalability, security, and performance.

 * Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance on SRE best practices.

 * Drive automation efforts to reduce operational overhead and improve platform stability.


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