Observability - Site Reliability Engineer
Peraton · Chantilly, VA, US
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## Observability / Site Reliability Engineer ### Responsibilities - Design, implement, and operate telemetry and reliability capabilities across enterprise infrastructure, platform services, applications, and workloads. - Implement centralized metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts, and reliability practices using **OpenTelemetry** or equivalent approved standards/tools. - Establish standardized collection patterns for metrics, logs, and distributed traces across enterprise environments. - Integrate cloud, Kubernetes, platform, application, and infrastructure telemetry into centralized observability services. - Maintain telemetry pipelines, retention, routing, and data-quality controls. - Develop and maintain instrumentation and telemetry configurations for effective monitoring and troubleshooting. **Reliability & Performance Engineering** - Build dashboards, alerts, service-health views, and operational metrics for performance and availability visibility. - Define and monitor **Service Level Objectives (SLOs)**, availability indicators, latency, error rates, saturation, and capacity measures. - Analyze performance, capacity, utilization, and operational trends to identify reliability issues and corrective actions. - Apply SRE practices to improve availability, performance, scalability, and operational resilience. - Identify opportunities to improve detection, response, and recovery across enterprise services. **Operations & Automation** - Support incident diagnosis, cross-service troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis for complex observability/reliability issues. - Automate recurring monitoring, alerting, reporting, and remediation activities where appropriate. - Partner with operations and engineering teams to improve incident detection/response and reduce recurring issues. - Participate in Tier 3/4 escalation and on-call support for observability, platform, and reliability issues. - Maintain operational procedures, troubleshooting documentation, and knowledge articles. - Drive continuous improvement of monitoring and reliability practices based on operational data and incident trends. ### Location - **Fully onsite** in **Chantilly, VA** ### Qualifications **Required** - **Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph** - ~**5–8 years** of experience in observability, SRE, operations, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or related technical discipline - **5 years** with a BS/BA (additional **4 years** may be considered in lieu of a degree) - Hands-on experience with **metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, and alerting** - Experience with **Kubernetes** and **cloud** environments - Strong troubleshooting, systems analysis, and performance-analysis skills - Experience operating/supporting production services and responding to technical incidents - Experience with **scripting, automation, or infrastructure-as-code** - Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills **Desired** - Experience with one or more of: - **OpenTelemetry** - **Prometheus & Grafana** - **CloudWatch, OpenSearch**, or comparable observability platforms - Distributed tracing / APM - **SLO/SLA** and error-budget practices - Observability for large-scale/distributed enterprise platforms - Automated incident response/remediation - Observability in secure/highly regulated environments ### Target Salary Range - **$112,000 – $179,000** (typical range; final offer depends on factors including experience, education, location, and con
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