DevSecOps - Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / US Gov

What You’ll BE Doing

• Design, automate, deploy, and operate highly reliable cloud systems supporting mission-critical workloads for U.S. Government customers. This role is centered on DevSecOps and site reliability engineering, with a strong emphasis on deployment automation, operational stability, and system resilience across AWS GovCloud and AWS C2E environments.

• You will be responsible for the reliability and operability of Quindar’s platform in production, ensuring systems are observable, fault-tolerant, and require minimal manual intervention. Your work will directly impact mission success by improving system uptime, deployment velocity, and operational confidence in constrained and classified environments.

• A key focus of this role is building and evolving automated deployment pipelines, hardened runtime environments, and repeatable infrastructure patterns that support secure and scalable operations in regulated environments.

• You will also support and improve Quindar deployments to air-gapped networks, driving consistency, reliability, and performance across all environments. As the organization grows, you will help define and implement best practices for availability, latency, incident response, and service-level objectives (SLOs).

• This role includes participation in incident response and a 24/7 on-call rotation, with a strong mandate to eliminate toil through automation and continuously improve system reliability.

• You will collaborate closely with frontend, backend, and platform engineers to ensure systems meet performance, reliability, and mission assurance requirements.

• TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Strong experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads in production environments

• Hands-on experience operating clusters in AWS EKS, Rancher, or similar platforms

• Experience supporting GovCloud, IL-enclave, or C2E environments

• Deep experience with CI/CD systems and deployment automation (GitLab preferred)

• Proficiency in Python and Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform or similar)

• Experience with observability platforms (Grafana LGTM stack, Datadog, or equivalent)

• Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, databases, caching, and event-driven architectures

• Solid networking fundamentals (VPCs, VPNs, load balancers, TLS, service connectivity)

• Experience with Linux/Unix systems

• Familiarity with cloud security best practices, enclave boundaries, and secure system design

• Experience with identity and access management (AWS IAM, Auth0, Keycloak, ICAM patterns)

• Strong Git fundamentals and experience supporting deployments across multiple classification levels

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

• 3+ years of professional experience as an SRE, DevOps, reliability, infrastructure, or platform engineer

• Active U.S. Security Clearance (Secret or higher required; TS/SCI preferred); U.S. Citizenship required

• Experience working toward ATO/authorization in federal, DoD, or IC environments preferred

• Experience supporting deployments in GovCloud, C2S/C2E, or IL-enclave environments highly desirable

• ITAR REQUIREMENTS

• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/ddtc_public/ddtc_public?id=ddtc_kb_article_page&sys_id=24d528fddbfc930044f9ff621f961987.

• WHY YOU'LL LOVE WORKING AT QUINDAR

• We work in a cutting edge industry and you will get the opportunity to be part of a small team with a large direct impact on the success of our customers’ space missions!

• We take work life balance very seriously. We require employees to take 15 days off but provide unlimited PTO and follow most US federal government holidays.

• Mental health is just as important as physical so we provide quarterly health & wellness benefits.

• Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family with 100% coverage for employees.

• We encourage employees to save for retirement and provide 4% 401(k) matching.

• Annually we have a 4-day company offsite. Previous locations include San Francisco, Nashville, Denver, Santa Fe, New Orleans, San Diego, Bozeman, and New York City.

• Our culture and company is evolving. You will be key in creating the next major or minor version!