
DevSecOps – Site Reliability Engineer, SRE
Quindar
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: ARVADA • Colorado • United States
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Salary
💰 $160,000 - $200,000 per year
About the role
- Design, automate, deploy, and operate highly reliable cloud systems supporting mission-critical workloads for U.S. Government customers.
- Ensure systems are observable, fault-tolerant, and require minimal manual intervention.
- Drive consistency, reliability, and performance across all environments.
- Help define and implement best practices for availability, latency, incident response, and service-level objectives (SLOs).
- Participate in incident response and a 24/7 on-call rotation,
- Collaborate closely with frontend, backend, and platform engineers to ensure systems meet performance, reliability, and mission assurance requirements.
Requirements
- 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
- Strong experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads in production environments
- Hands-on experience operating clusters in AWS EKS, Rancher, or similar platforms
- 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
Benefits
- 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!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
KubernetesAWS EKSGitLabPythonTerraformGrafanaDatadogLinuxCI/CDInfrastructure-as-Code
Soft Skills
collaborationincident responseproblem-solvingcommunicationreliabilityperformanceconsistencyobservabilityfault-toleranceminimal manual intervention
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceU.S. Security Clearance (Secret or higher)