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# Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Cherokee Federal
- **Location:** Boulder, CO, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $120,000 - $130,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Layers, Application Release Automation, Disaster Recovery, Github, Monitoring of Systems, Key Management, Lightweight Directory Access Protocols (LDAP), Scrum Methodology, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Reliability Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering Practices, Broadcom, Runbook, Workflow Management Systems, Datadog, Datastax, Information Technology, Cassandra, Api Gateway, Terraform, Splunk, Devsecops
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/1_cherokeefederal-43768

## About the Role

* Working knowledge of SRE fundamentals, including SLOs/SLIs, incident management, and postmortems.
 * Experience with monitoring and observability tooling, such as Datadog or Splunk.
 * Solid hands-on experience with GitHub and Infrastructure as Code.
Terraform experience is a plus.

 * Strong working knowledge of GitHub Actions, including workflow design, secrets management, runner administration, and CI/CD pipeline implementation.
 * Experience building, maintaining, and supporting CI/CD pipelines and release automation processes.
 * Experience working within Agile delivery environments using Scrum, Kanban, or similar frameworks.
 * Experience supporting federal government clients or contracts is a plus.
 * Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Public Trust or Security Clearance.
 * Performs other duties as may be assigned.
 * Must be a US Citizen.
 * This position requires an active Public Trust clearance or the ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance to be considered.
 * Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer; may occasionally require standing or moving about the office for extended periods.
 * Must pass pre-employment qualifications of Cherokee Federal.
**_Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:_**

 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
 * 4+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevSecOps, or platform engineering roles.
 * Preferably in an enterprise ICAM environment.
**_Work Schedule & On-Call Requirements:_**
This position participates in an on-call rotation as part of the Operations team.
Team members are typically on call for one week every 7 to 9 weeks and are responsible for responding to issues that may arise outside of normal business hours, including evenings and weekends.
In addition, there may be one or two occasions each year when the entire Operations team is required to participate in planned weekend migrations, major deployments, maintenance activities, disaster recovery exercises, or similar operational events.
These activities are scheduled in advance whenever possible and are necessary to support critical platform changes and organizational objectives.

## Description

The Site Reliability Engineer owns the day-to-day health, security, and usability of the organization's ICAM environment while applying SRE practices to keep delivery platforms reliable, observable, and automated.
This role independently administers solutions, drives automation across the service delivery lifecycle, and partners with engineering teams to improve developer experience and enforce security and compliance standards.
This is a fully remote position open to candidates located anywhere within the United States.
**_Responsibilities:_**
**Administer/support the following:**

 * Advanced/Expert level RHEL Administration
 * Advanced/Expert level Broadcom/CA DX Directory & LDAP Administration
 * Advanced/Expert level Layer7 / CA API Gateway Administration
 * Advanced/Expert level DataStax Enterprise Cassandra Operations
 * Automate platform administration and operational workflows using scripting and advanced orchestration.
 * Monitor platform availability and performance against defined SLOs, and tune alerting to reduce noise.
 * Respond to platform and pipeline incidents, lead troubleshooting, and contribute to blameless postmortems.
 * Maintain platform documentation, runbooks, and onboarding guides.
**Compensation & Benefits:**