Senior Monitoring/SRE Engineer (REMOTE)

Koniag IT Systems, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking a Senior Monitoring/SRE Engineer to support KITS and our government customer in Washington, DC. The position is remote. This position requires the candidate to be able to obtain a Public Trust.

We offer competitive compensation and an extraordinary benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401K with company matching, flexible spending accounts, paid holidays, three weeks paid time off, and more.

Koniag IT Systems (KITS) is seeking a Senior Monitoring / SRE Engineer with a minimum of 8 years of experience to lead enterprise observability, monitoring, and reliability engineering practices for a federal civilian customer's hybrid on-premises and AWS cloud environment. The ideal candidate has designed and operated enterprise monitoring platforms at scale, has strong incident management experience, and can drive site reliability practices across a large, multi-team infrastructure program.

The Senior Monitoring / SRE Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and owning the enterprise monitoring and observability architecture, leading incident response and root cause analysis for high-severity outages, and supporting continuous monitoring (ConMon) reporting requirements under FISMA/NIST SP 800-53.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to

• Design, implement, and own the enterprise monitoring and observability architecture spanning infrastructure, applications, and cloud services (e.g., Splunk, SolarWinds, Grafana, Datadog, or CloudWatch).
• Define and maintain service level objectives (SLOs), service level indicators (SLIs), and error budgets for mission-critical financial and case-management systems.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis for high-severity outages, driving cross-team remediation and after-action reviews.
• Build automated alerting, dashboards, and runbooks to reduce mean