Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Company: Peraton
Location: US (Remote)
Salary: $104k - $166k per year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-10-01
About this role
## Responsibilities
Peraton is looking for a Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who will be responsible for designing and developing advanced Python-based AWS cloud solutions and engineering reliability tools for the Cloud Foundation Services (CFS) platform in the Infrastructure, Platforms & Operations organization. This person will apply software engineering practices including Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) with Terraform to build scalable, reusable solutions and utilities that enhance platform reliability across the Federal Reserve System.
Work Location: This is a remote position
What You Will Do
- Design, develop, and maintain reliability solutions and SRE utilities using Python in AWS environments to reduce toil, improve cloud platform reliability, and industrialize SRE practices across the system
- Build automation scripts, APIs, and utilities in Python to reduce toil and improve platform reliability.
- Implement observability and monitoring solutions (Grafana, AWS CloudWatch) leveraging Python for custom metrics and dashboards
- Build and optimize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to manage AWS resources related to SRE solutions, incorporating cost-efficient design principles
- Optimize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform for AWS resources, integrating Python-based workflows.
- Develop CI/CD pipelines and automated testing to ensure code quality, reliability, and rapid delivery of the solutions
- Define SRE standards, best practices, and guidelines for adoption across teams; establish SRE metrics like SLI, SLOs, etc.
- Apply software engineering best practices including version control, code reviews, test-driven development, and documentation to all development
- Participate in incident management and on-call rotation, providing technical support for SRE tools, troubleshooting production issues, and collaborating with teams to reduce incident recurrence through proactive detection and pattern analysis
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