Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

NACI (T1)

Job Family:

IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Cloud Platform, Distributed Systems, Microsoft Azure, Site Reliability Engineering

Certifications:

None

Experience:

5 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Discover a career that is challenging, impactful, and mission‑critical. Join our team as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer and make an impact on mission‑critical cloud systems, reliability engineering, and service availability. While you help us advance the mission, we’ll help you build your skills and advance your career.

HOW A SENIOR SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

• Ensure high availability, resilience, and performance of critical systems by designing monitoring, alerting, and automated remediation solutions.

• Analyze logs, system metrics, and performance data to identify bottlenecks and drive improvements to system health and scalability.

• Develop and maintain automation scripts, infrastructure‑as‑code configurations, and tooling to streamline deployments, scaling, and operational workflows.

• Lead initiatives to reduce manual toil and promote best‑in‑class reliability engineering practices across cloud environments.

• Participate in on‑call rotations, respond to incidents promptly, conduct root‑cause analyses, and drive systemic corrective actions.

• Collaborate with software engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to integrate reliability into the full development lifecycle.

• Provide architectural guidance on distributed systems, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and reliability patterns.

• Communicate technical risks, impacts, and reliability insights clearly to non‑technical stakeholders.

• Lead reliability‑focused projects and manage timelines, resources, and deliverables to achieve measurable improvements.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or a related field—or equivalent experience. Advanced degree preferred.

Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, systems engineering, or related technical roles.

• Demonstrated success designing, supporting, and improving reliability for distributed, cloud‑based systems.

Technical Skills:

• Strong software engineering background with proficiency in Python, Go, or similar languages.

• Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and container orchestration (Kubernetes).

• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and log aggregation platforms.

• Skilled in defining SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for measuring and maintaining service reliability.

Skills & Abilities:

• Excellent problem‑solving and analytical skills with a proactive and systematic approach to reliability issues.

• Strong communication skills for cross‑team collaboration and stakeholder engagement.

• Ability to lead reliability initiatives, mentor engineers, and drive alignment across technical and business teams.

Security Clearance Level:
Ability to obtain a Public Trust or higher, per FSA requirements.

Location:
Remote

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
● Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
● Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
● Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
● Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY
Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.

The likely salary range for this position is $111,155 - $150,385. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

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