Site Reliability Engineer

Your Impact

Own your opportunity to support our nation's defense. Make an impact by connecting and securing critical operations across the globe, keeping our country safe and secure.

Job Description

GDIT is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help ensure the resilience, performance, and reliability of mission‑critical Defense systems. In this role, you will blend software engineering, automation, and operations expertise to build scalable platforms, reduce toil, and enable high‑velocity delivery.

How You’ll Make an Impact* Build/Design and maintain highly available, scalable systems across cloud and on‑prem environments. * Develop automation solutions that improves observability, speeds recovery, and eliminates manual operational work. * Implement monitoring, alerting, and performance tuning strategies that ensure system health. * Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to design reliable architectures and CI/CD pipelines. * Conduct root cause analysis and drive systemic improvements to prevent future incidents. * Champion SRE best practices such as SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and automated incident response. * Provide inputs into proposal operations in area of subject matter expertise, collaborating on solution elements and providing written narratives that describe technical solution elements designed for a specific opportunity

What You’ll Need to Succeed Required

• Work Experience: 15+ years in this space; system reliability, DevSecOps, cloud operations, or infrastructure engineering.
• Education: Bachelor's with 15 years or an additional 4 years of work experience in lieu of degree
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell, etc.).
• Hands‑on experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, Datadog, etc.).
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of networking, Linux system internals, and distributed systems.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues across the stack.
• US Citizenship Required
• Candidate must possess active secret to start, and ability to attain Top Secret/SCI

Preferred

• Experience supporting DoW or other federal programs.
• Certifications such as Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), AWS/Azure, or ITIL.
• Experience implementing SRE frameworks at scale.

Location & Travel Location:Remote

Travel= 25-50% Expected

Work Requirements

Years of Experience 15 + years of related experience* may vary based on technical training, certification(s), *or* degree

Certification Travel Required 25-50% Citizenship U.S. Citizenship Required Salary and Benefit Information

The likely salary range for this position is $164,382 - $215,050. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

View information about benefits and our total rewards program. Our Identity Verification Process

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes. About Our Work

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development. Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at gdit.com/tc.*Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans*