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# Site Reliability Engineer II

- **Company:** PLATFORM ENGINEERING & CONSULTING, PLLC
- **Location:** Atlanta, GA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $115,500.0 - $184,800.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, C Sharp (Programming Language), Software as a Service, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), Python (Programming Language), Platform as a Service (PAAS), Software Vulnerability Management, Pulumi, Git Flow, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Webforms, Azure AKS, Terraform, Golang, Programming Languages
- **Published:** November 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/site-reliability-engineer-ii-axon-2-10688559

## About the Role

* 3+ years of experience in platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure engineering
 * Experience building and operating Kubernetes platforms such as AKS, EKS, or similar in production
 * Experience building platforms on Azure or AWS
 * Experience with a programming language such as Python, Go, C#, Java, or similar
 * Experience with CI/CD and Git-based workflows to automate infrastructure provisioning, builds, tests, and releases
 * Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar), including flexible, testable modules
 * Experience using observability tools (metrics, logs, traces, APM) to debug issues
 * Experience designing tooling that simplifies the operation of SaaS/PaaS systems
 * Hands-on experience applying AI and agentic tooling to engineering or operations work
 * Empathy for the needs of software engineers
 * United States citizenship, required to obtain CJIS clearance for full access to US production environments, * Experience with GitOps using ArgoCD and Helm
 * Experience with cluster autoscaling and cost optimization (Karpenter, Vertical Pod Autoscaler, or similar)
 * Experience with Kubernetes policy and security tooling (Kyverno, OPA/Gatekeeper, or similar)
 * Experience in government or regulated cloud environments (Azure Government, FedRAMP/GovRAMP, CJIS)
 * Exposure to 24/7 high-volume systems with formal SLA requirements

## Description

As a Site Reliability Engineer on the Kubernetes team in Axon's Compute Platform Engineering (CPE) organization, you'll help run and evolve the platform that Axon's products run on: a large, global fleet of Azure AKS and Amazon EKS clusters across commercial and government clouds. You care about system stability, clear documentation, and tools that make the platform easy and safe for engineering teams to use. You'll own platform features end to end, from design through rollout., * Own platform features and components end to end, including design docs and rollout plans.

 * Review teammates' changes and share operational knowledge across the team and with partner teams.
 * Build and operate robust, easy-to-use Kubernetes platforms and tooling that let engineering teams provision and run services rapidly, consistently, and securely.
 * Automate cluster provisioning, bootstrapping, upgrades, and day-2 operations with infrastructure as code and GitOps.
 * Continually improve reliability, operability, and cost efficiency across the fleet, including node autoscaling and right-sizing.
 * Keep the platform secure and compliant through policy enforcement, vulnerability remediation, and government-cloud requirements such as FIPS.
 * Debug problems in cloud-native distributed systems, and take part in the team's on-call rotation.
 * Write code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise.
 * Write documentation and guides that let engineers self-serve.
 * Use agentic AI tooling to automate platform operations and accelerate the team's engineering work.
 * Take calculated risks, champion new ideas, and cultivate your craft., The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.

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