DevOps Engineer

Position Summary The Effectual SRE Engineer improves the availability, reliability, recoverability, and observability of enterprise applications and services across cloud and hybrid environments. Working across multiple products and engineering teams in a public sector government contracting environment, this hands-on engineer defines and monitors SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets; improves monitoring and alerting; supports incident response and post-incident reviews; and automates recurring operational work. Participation in an after-hours support rotation may be required. Essential Duties Define, implement, and monitor SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and other reliability metrics Design and improve observability — metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, monitoring, and alerting Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for large enterprise environments Implement DevSecOps practices across the build, test, security-scan, release, and deploy lifecycle Develop, deploy, and maintain containerized applications using enterprise container platforms Automate recurring operational work via scripting, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud-native tooling Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews Identify reliability and performance risks and implement corrective actions Support disaster recovery planning, testing, and implementation Troubleshoot application, infrastructure, deployment, and integration issues across cloud and hybrid environments Collaborate with engineering, architecture, security, and operations teams on reliable, secure solutions Provide technical guidance and operational support to multiple engineering teams Evaluate processes and identify opportunities to improve automation, reliability, and deployment efficiency Participate in after-hours and on-call activities as required by the program Education & experience (one of the following): Bachelor's in a related field + 4 years relevant experience and an Associate/Professional-level cloud certification (AWS or Azure), or 6 years of on-the-job experience in lieu of degree and certification Required experience (4+ years in SRE, DevOps, DevSecOps, cloud, software, or systems engineering), including: Supporting production applications in public or hybrid cloud environments CI/CD pipelines, automated builds, testing, release management, and deployment — using GitLab CI/CD or a comparable enterprise platform Git or comparable version control Building and maintaining containerized applications with Docker and Kubernetes, OpenShift, or comparable Monitoring, logging, alerting, and metrics/observability tooling Production incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis Scripting/automation (Python, Bash, PowerShell, or comparable) Infrastructure-as-code and configuration management (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or comparable) Nice-to-Have Active Public Trust or clearance (USDA preferred) Experience with large enterprise environments (hundreds of applications, multiple teams) AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or other government cloud Systems subject to FISMA, FedRAMP, or NIST Production Kubernetes administration and orchestration Observability platforms and distributed tracing (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Splunk, OpenTelemetry) Disaster recovery, performance engineering, resilience, and operational readiness Security/compliance automation within CI/CD pipelines Multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud migrations, modernization, and operational transitions Direct experience with government customers and program leadership Preferred Certifications AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) FinOps, security, or automation certifications relevant to the role