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# Site Reliability Engineer III

- **Company:** Eliassen Group
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $170,000.0 - $220,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon S3, Systems Engineering, Bash Shell, Configuration Management, Continuous Integration, Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Software Engineering, Load Balancing, Containerization, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Vmware
- **Published:** September 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/15_4e858e583

## About the Role

* 7+ years in software development, systems engineering, or operations with accountability for production availability, performance, and reliability.
 * Demonstrated experience blending software engineering and systems administration for highly available and scalable applications.
 * Experience designing and managing monitoring, alerting, and observability to meet service level objectives.
 * Experience leading or participating in incident response and root cause analysis.
 * Experience with Ansible and Desired State Configuration.
 * Experience with GitLab CI/CD automation and Bash scripting.
 * Experience with container-native storage and object storage solutions such as MinIO, S3-compatible services, and PortWorx.
 * Experience with enterprise load-balancing solutions such as F5 or similar.
 * Ability to contribute immediately in a mission-critical operational environment with minimal ramp-up., * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field is preferred.
 * DoD 8140-compliant certification such as Security+ or higher.
 * Active Secret security clearance.

## Description

our client seeks a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer III to design, automate, and operate mission-critical systems for federal environments. The role focuses on Kubernetes or VMWare platforms, CI/CD enablement, observability, and developer experience. You will reduce developer friction, strengthen reliability practices, and deliver secure, compliant infrastructure that supports agency objectives., * Design, deploy, and maintain mission-critical application workloads on virtualized or containerized environments such as VMWare or Kubernetes.

 * Ensure scalability, availability, and compliance with government requirements.
 * Develop and sustain automated CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and configuration management workflows across all environments.
 * Provision, configure, and maintain developer environments and toolchains to enable secure and efficient workflows.
 * Identify and reduce developer friction across the software development lifecycle.
 * Implement observability and alerting to support defined service level objectives.
 * Lead or participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
 * Support container-native and object storage solutions such as MinIO, S3-compatible services, and PortWorx.
 * Configure and manage enterprise load balancers such as F5 or similar platforms.
 * Establish and maintain customer trust by delivering innovative solutions aligned to mission needs.


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