Position Title: Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting Direct Hire Staff Site Reliability Engineer opportunity located in Fort Meade, MD
Job Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services
- Participate in an on-call rotation supporting highly available customer-facing systems
- Lead incident response and drive post-incident reviews focused on systemic improvements
- Define, measure, and improve SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
- Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting
- Develop software, automation, and infrastructure using Go, Python, Terraform, and related technologies
- Eliminate operational toil through automation, tooling, and platform engineering
- Improve deployment safety through CI/CD and GitOps practices
- Build self-service platforms and operational guardrails that improve developer velocity while maintaining reliability and security
- Lead complex reliability initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, incident analysis, and knowledge sharing
- Apply AI-assisted engineering techniques to improve incident response, troubleshooting, and automation
- Support systems operating under Federal and DoD compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, IL6)
Job Qualifications:
- Proven experience with Federal and DoD compliance frameworks, specifically FedRAMP and Impact Level 6 (IL6)
- Strong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP
- Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production, including troubleshooting networking, storage, scheduling, scaling, and workload lifecycle issues
- Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm)
- Strong software engineering skills in Golang and/or Python
- Experience operating distributed data platforms such as PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, MySQL, or Cassandra
- Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals: DNS, load balancing, ingress, TLS, service networking, and traffic management
- Experience with observability platforms, monitoring strategies, and production telemetry
- Deep understanding of SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies
- Understanding of cloud security fundamentals, IAM, secrets management, and secure infrastructure design
- Demonstrated success leading engineering initiatives across multiple teams and mentoring engineers
- Preferred: GitOps and ArgoCD
- Preferred: Experience operating large-scale SaaS platforms and Kubernetes-based microservices
- Preferred: Experience implementing AI-assisted operational tooling or automation workflows
Job Details:
- Job Type: Direct Hire
- Location: Fort Meade, MD
- Pay Rate Range: Market Rate
- U.S. Citizenship and TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph required
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.