Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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.