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Onebrief · 2 months ago

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs, CO

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$180K/yr - $220K/yr

3+ years exp

Onebrief is a collaboration and AI-powered workflow software company designed specifically for military staffs. The role of Senior Site Reliability Engineer involves ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of production applications, while leading incident response and automating processes to enhance operational efficiency.

Information TechnologyMilitaryProductivity ToolsSoftware

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Building a World-Class Observability Platform: Design, implement, and manage our monitoring, logging, and alerting stack (e.g., Prometheus, Loki, Alloy, and Grafana). You won't just track metrics; you'll create the actionable insights and automated alerting that allow teams to identify and resolve issues before they impact users

Defining and Upholding Reliability: Define, measure, and own alerting that feeds into our Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and increases trust internally and externally. You will be the organization's expert on what it means for our systems to be reliable and how to measure it

Leading Incident Response: Act as the incident responder and potentially incident commander during critical incidents You will lead blameless post-mortems / After Action Reviews (AARs) that identify true root causes and drive automated, long-term solutions to prevent recurrence

Automating for Scale and Security: Partner with platform engineers to design, build, and manage secure, resilient Kubernetes clusters and cloud/on-prem environments using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible). You will embed security and compliance controls (RMF, STIGs) directly into this automation

Eliminating Toil and Scaling the Team: Proactively identify and eliminate operational toil by building automation. You will act as a force multiplier by advising other teams on best practices in air-gapped environments and production readiness

Qualification

Site Reliability EngineeringKubernetesAWSIncident ResponseLinuxTerraformAnsibleMonitoring ToolsNetworking FundamentalsVMWareDockerHelmDoD ComplianceSecurity Minded DesignSecurity+ CredentialDocumentationCommunication

Required

3 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or a related field, with firsthand experience managing mission-critical systems within DoD's air-gapped environments

An active Top Secret security clearance. U.S. citizenship required

Experience automating software delivery, deployment, and providing documentation and self-service tools for engineering teams and customers

A strong understanding of Linux, containerization and orchestration, and virtual machines

Experience with centralized logging, metrics, and observability using tools such as Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, ELK stack, or Datadog

Networking fundamentals: core protocols and secure configurations

A deep understanding of incident response processes, with experience conducting thorough root cause analyses and driving continuous improvement

Clear, concise writing; strong documentation habits and async communication

Core skills and technologies: VMWare, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Ansible, Terraform, Linux, AWS, DoD compliance, Monitoring and Observability tools, AWS