Reliability Engineer

SES Corporation

Reliability Engineer responsible for U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture.

Posted 6/30/2026full-timeBoston • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDNSDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonTCP/IPTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

This role supports the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contract
The Reliability Engineer is responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, scalability, and resiliency of mission‑critical systems
This role applies software engineering principles to infrastructure and operations, with a strong emphasis on automation, monitoring, incident response, and continuous reliability improvement
The reliability engineer serves as the bridge between development, operations, and platform teams to ensure production systems consistently meet defined service level objectives (SLOs) while supporting rapid, safe delivery of new capabilities

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelors and eight (8) years or more of experience; Masters and six (6) years or more of experience. Additional experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.
Active Secret clearance at a minimum required to start
US citizenship required
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP), including managed services
Experience with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
SLOs and error budgets
Capacity modeling and performance testing
Strong understanding of:
Distributed systems and high‑availability architectures
Linux/Windows system administration
Networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing)
Hands-on experience with:
Monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Elastic, Datadog, Azure Monitor)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation)
Scripting or programming languages (Python, Bash, Go, PowerShell, or similar)
Experience supporting incident management and on‑call operations

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical
Dental
Vision
AD&D
STD
LTD
Company paid Life Insurance
401k with employer contribution
Paid Time Off
Pet Insurance

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Hard Skills & Tools

Capacity ModelingPerformance TestingLinux System AdministrationWindows System AdministrationNetworking Fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, Load Balancing)Scripting Languages (Python, Bash, Go, PowerShell)

Certifications

Active Secret Clearance