Site Reliability Engineer

Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret/SCI Public Trust/Other

Required: None Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Operations Job

Qualifications

• Skills: Complex Systems, Networking Hardware, Systems Architecture, Systems
• Design, Technical Guidance Certifications: None Experience: 15 + years of
• related experience US Citizenship Required: Yes

Job Description

GDIT is seeking

a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help ensure the resilience, performance,

and reliability of mission‑critical Defense systems.

In this role, you will

• blend software engineering, automation, and operations expertise to build
• scalable platforms, reduce toil, and enable high‑velocity delivery. How You’ll
• Make an Impact • Build/Design and maintain highly available, scalable systems
• across cloud and on‑prem environments. • Develop automation solutions that
• improves observability, speeds recovery, and eliminates manual operational work.
• • Implement monitoring, alerting, and performance tuning strategies that ensure
• system health. • Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to design
• reliable architectures and CI/CD pipelines. • Conduct root cause analysis and
• drive systemic improvements to prevent future incidents. • Champion SRE best
• practices such as SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and automated incident response. •
• Provide inputs into proposal operations in area of subject matter expertise,
• collaborating on solution elements and providing written narratives that
• describe technical solution elements designed for a specific opportunity What
• You’ll Need to Succeed Required • Work Experience: 15+ years in this space;
• system reliability, DevSecOps, cloud operations, or infrastructure engineering.
• • Education: Bachelor's with 15 years or an additional 4 years of work
• experience in lieu of degree • Strong scripting and automation skills (Python,
• Bash, PowerShell, etc.). • Hands‑on experience with monitoring tools
• (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, Datadog, etc.). • Familiarity with
• Kubernetes, container orchestration, and modern CI/CD pipelines. • Understanding
• of networking, Linux system internals, and distributed systems. • Ability to
• troubleshoot complex technical issues across the stack. • US Citizenship
• Required • Candidate must possess active secret to start, and ability to attain
• Top Secret/SCI Preferred • Experience supporting DoW or other federal programs.
• • Certifications such as Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), AWS/Azure, or ITIL. • Experience
• implementing SRE frameworks at scale. Location & Travel Location:Remote Travel=
• 25-50% Expected The likely salary range for this position is $164,382 -
• $215,050. 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: 25-50% 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
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