Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Team Lead

Dark Wolf Solutions is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Team Lead to support the Unified Platform Cyber Operations & Security Center (COSC) in San Antonio, TX. The Senior SRE / Team Lead will be responsible for leading a multi-disciplinary team focused on platform reliability, operational resilience, performance optimization, and cloud infrastructure automation across multi-tenant, classified, and hybrid mission environments.This role blends deep technical expertise in cloud-native operations, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), observability, and automation with leadership responsibilities for mentoring, guiding, and growing a team of SREs.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Site Reliability Engineering team supporting platform monitoring, incident response automation, service resilience, and performance optimization for COSC environments.
• Architect and oversee deployment of observability solutions including logging, monitoring, alerting, telemetry ingestion, and performance dashboards.
• Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) pipelines to automate provisioning, scaling, and configuration of critical platform components.
• Implement and enforce Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Error Budgets to drive operational excellence.
• Develop and optimize incident response workflows and playbooks; lead root cause analysis (RCA) and post-incident reviews (PIRs).
• Manage cloud-native infrastructure in AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, and/or classified cloud environments.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineers, Cloud Security Engineers, and DevSecOps teams to continuously improve system availability and performance.
• Integrate monitoring and telemetry into the COSC SIEM and observability frameworks.
• Support compliance efforts by ensuring observability and operational artifacts align with RMF, STIGs, and NIST standards.
• Mentor junior SREs and cloud engineers, providing technical leadership and professional development support.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field, or equivalent industry experience.
• Minimum of 8–10 years of experience in system engineering, cloud engineering, or platform operations.
• Minimum of 3 years experience in a leadership or technical team lead role.
• Strong experience operating cloud-native environments with AWS, Azure, and/or Kubernetes orchestration.
• Deep understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible) and GitOps practices (e.g., ArgoCD).
• Expertise in monitoring and observability frameworks (Elastic Stack, Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentd, Loki, or equivalent).
• Strong knowledge of SRE principles, service reliability engineering, and resilience patterns.
• Experience with security compliance alignment including NIST 800-53, DoD STIGs, and Continuous ATO practices.
• Experience leading incident management activities and conducting root cause analysis (RCA).
• US Citizenship required with an active Secret clearance and eligibility for Top Secret/SCI.

Desired Qualifications

• Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or Certified DevOps Engineer.
• Familiarity with performance testing, chaos engineering, and fault injection frameworks.
• Hands-on experience building or maintaining self-service internal developer platforms (IDPs).
• Experience supporting DoD or Intelligence Community environments.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) implementation in cloud-native environments.

The estimated salary range is $155,000.00 - $190,000.00, commensurate on experience, technical expertise, certifications, and clearance level.

Primary work location is San Antonio, TX. Hybrid model with a mix of remote and on-site support; on-site presence required for classified system activities.

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