Site Reliability Engineer

Maryland

Motion Recruitment
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A startup based in Arlington VA is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to support the deployment, performance, and resilience of a cutting-edge platform within a secure, high-stakes environment. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in operationally sensitive environments, is deeply technical, and wants to make a real-world impact supporting national security missions.

What You'll Do:
  • Maintain and scale production infrastructure within a secure on-prem environment
  • Automate deployments, monitoring, and maintenance to support high availability and performance
  • Debug complex infrastructure and application issues under tight operational constraints
  • Collaborate with software engineers to improve reliability, observability, and platform performance
  • Monitor system health, develop runbooks, and ensure disaster recovery and backup processes are in place
  • Work hands-on with classified systems, ensuring compliance with all security requirements
Who You Are:
  • Experienced SRE, DevOps Engineer, or Infrastructure Engineer with hands-on systems and operations experience
  • Strong background with Linux systems, containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and scripting (Python, Bash, etc.)
  • Familiarity with on-prem deployments and air-gapped environments
  • Skilled in monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)
  • Active TS/SCI clearance
  • Comfortable working full-time, on-site at Fort Meade
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible), and security hardening
  • Understanding of network protocols and secure system architecture


Posted by: Patrick Fuller

Specialization :
  • Cloud Security
  • Site Reliability Engineer
  • DevOps
  • Cloud Engineer
Date Posted: 23 April 2025
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