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As a Senior Site Reliability Engineering- CTJ- Secret (Cleared Environments), you will join the Substrate team to lead reliability improvements across multiple services within highly regulated, sovereign, or compliance-sensitive environments. You will serve as a senior on-call engineer, leading incident response for high-severity issues and driving high-quality post-incident reviews to identify systemic problems. Your daily responsibilities include driving automation, monitoring, and observability strategies, mentoring other SREs, and designing reliability-focused software components or platforms. You will influence service architecture and operational readiness while ensuring high availability for critical infrastructure. The role requires technical expertise in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration to solve complex operational problems. You must be able to obtain and maintain specific security clearances for Microsoft Government cloud environments, including GCCM, GCCH, and DoD.
Lead reliability and availability improvements across multiple services in highly regulated environments.
Serve as a senior on-call engineer leading incident response for complex or high-severity incidents.
Provide hands-on technical leadership and coordinate cross-team responses during active incidents.
Drive automation, monitoring, and observability strategies to reduce incident volume and recovery time.
Design and implement reliability-focused software components, frameworks, or platforms for multiple services.
Influence service architecture and operational readiness in partnership with engineering teams.
Mentor SREs and establish best practices to raise the team’s technical bar.
Conduct high-quality post-incident reviews to identify systemic issues and durable engineering improvements.
What we're looking for
Master's Degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field and 2+ years of technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration.
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field and 4+ years of technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration.
Equivalent experience to the degree and years of experience requirements.
Ability to obtain and maintain a favorably adjudicated Tier 3 background investigation.
Ability to meet Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) eligibility requirements.
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire and every two years thereafter.
Doctorate Degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field and 3+ years of technical experience (preferred).
Site Reliability Engineering
Distributed Systems
Observability
Automation
SLO
Incident Response
Network Engineering
Systems Administration
Security
Compliance
High Availability
Site Reliability Engineering
Distributed Systems
Observability
Automation
Software Development
System Design
Incident Response
Network Engineering
Systems Administration
Site Reliability Engineering
Distributed Systems
Telemetry
Automation
Monitoring
Alerting
Incident Response
Capacity Planning
Root Cause Analysis
System Design
Network Engineering
Systems Administration
Windows Server
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Python
PowerShell
Bash
Ansible
Chef
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
OCI
DNS
Firewalls
Load Balancers
Certificates
STIG
Citrix
infrastructure-as-code
incident-management
Monitoring
Windows Server
Linux
Python
PowerShell
Bash
Ansible
Chef
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
infrastructure-as-code
DNS
Firewalls
Load Balancers
STIG
Certificates
Incident Response
Citrix
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