Job Description

Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.

Role:

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Type:

Remote - working EST Hours

Clearance Requirement:

Must be eligible for up to a Top-Secret Security Clearance.


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Job Summary

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will play a critical, hands-on role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of systems supporting highly classified government projects within an air-gapped deployment. This position demands expertise in both DevOps methodologies and deep coding skills to maintain up-time, resilience, and stringent compliance in a secure, disconnected environment.


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Key Responsibilities

Develop robust automation, configuration management, and toolsets primarily using

Ruby

and

Shell Scripting (CLI/PowerShell)

to manage infrastructure and deployment pipelines (Git/Infrastructure Automation). Implement and manage advanced observability solutions with

Grafana

and

Prometheus

, along with

Splunk

and

Elastic

, to monitor system health and proactively identify issues in an air-gapped setting. Collaborate closely with the Lead, Infrastructure, and Security Specialists to rapidly resolve incidents and significantly improve overall system resilience. Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for system configurations, runbooks, and disaster recovery procedures tailored for a classified environment. Contribute an intermediate level of proficiency in

Go

to team projects and codebase.
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Must-Have Requirements

8+ years of experience

in DevOps OR SRE using

Ruby

for writing robust automation and tooling. Observability and monitoring with

Grafana

and

Prometheus

.

CLI tools

including

Shell Scripting

and/or

PowerShell

for operational tasks. Deploying

Kubernetes

in production environments.

Git

and various

Infrastructure Automation

tools.

Deep administrative experience with Linux

operating systems.
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Nice-to-Have Requirements

Experience with

Go

programming language. Prior experience in

government or defense-related SRE roles

. Experience with

Python

for scripting and data analysis. Familiarity with packaging and deployment using

Helm

. Knowledge of network security protocols, specifically

IPSec

Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.



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