Karsun Solutions · 19 hours ago
Site Reliability Engineer Lead
Herndon, VA, US
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expKarsun Solutions is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer Lead to build and support production environments while driving service level objectives for multiple applications. The role involves automating operations, managing infrastructure, and collaborating with development teams to ensure system reliability and performance.
ConsultingGovernmentInformation Technology
No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain applications on Kubernetes container platform using Helm charts, K8s configurations, and GitOps workflows for repeatable and consistent deployments
Monitor and troubleshoot complex issues involving container networking, zero-downtime availability, scaling behavior, and cluster reliability
Architect, deploy, and optimize resilient cloud-native systems in AWS using services EKS, Lambda, RDS, Aurora, S3, and VPC networking components
Build self-service deployment capabilities for development teams, enabling application deployments through standardized pipelines
Integrate security scanning tools (SAST, SCA, secrets detection, container scanning) into the build pipeline to ensure DevSecOps alignment
Implement automated release strategies using blue/green, canary, feature flags, and zero-downtime deployment patterns
Implement all infrastructure and configuration using Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, or Ansible, ensuring consistent and repeatable deployments
Develop robust Python, or Bash scripts to streamline operational tasks
Implement and manage observability stacks using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Opensearch, Jaeger/Zipkin, or DataDog for full stack visibility
Develop proactive alerting strategies to minimize false positives and ensure actionable notifications; establish performance dashboards to measure system reliability and drive continuous improvement
Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) for production incidents and drive long-term remediation through automated guardrails
Partner with security teams to implement vulnerability management, patch automation, and continuous compliance monitoring
Lead blameless post-incident reviews and drive implementation of resilient engineering patterns such as retries, graceful degradation, chaos testing, and redundancy strategies
Work closely with software engineers, architects, product owners, and security stakeholders to design reliable systems that support mission-critical government applications
Coach development teams on cloud-native principles, observability, performance tuning, and infrastructure best practices
Advocate for SRE/DevOps culture, driving automation-first mindset and continuous improvement across the engineering organization
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field and 8-10 years of relevant experience
5+ years in SRE, Platform Engineering and DevOps supporting operations and maintenance for cloud-native, scalable, and highly available applications
Expertise in scripting (Python, Bash, Go preferred)
Deep understanding of cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (e.g., Kubernetes)
Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools like DataDog, AWS Cloudwatch, Splunk etc
Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) and GitOps platforms (ArgoCD/FluxCD)
Knowledge of infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD pipelines
Experience deploying enterprise software within AWS Services such as EKS, RDS, EC2, Elastic Load Balancers, Lambda
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with a keen attention to detail
Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
Company
Karsun Solutions
Karsun Solutions LLC specializes in Enterprise Modernization and Transformation solutions for the Federal Government.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Kelly Demaitre
Chief People Officer
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