Observability - Site Reliability Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer at Peraton designing and operating observability for enterprise infrastructure: building telemetry pipelines (metrics, logs, traces) with OpenTelemetry, defining SLOs, dashboards and alerts on Kubernetes and cloud, plus incident response and Tier 3/4 on-call support. Fully onsite in Chantilly, VA; requires active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph.
- Compensation
- $112K–$179K / yr
- Location
- Chantilly, VA, US
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Sre
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph
- 5-8 years of experience in observability, SRE, operations, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or related discipline
- 5 years experience with BS/BA; additional 4 years of experience may substitute for a degree
- Hands-on experience with metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, and alerting
- Experience with Kubernetes and cloud environments
- Strong troubleshooting, systems analysis, and performance-analysis skills
- Experience operating production services and responding to technical incidents
- Experience with scripting, automation, or infrastructure-as-code practices
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
Nice to have
- Experience with OpenTelemetry
- Experience with Prometheus and Grafana
- Experience with CloudWatch, OpenSearch, or comparable cloud observability platforms
- Experience with distributed tracing and application performance monitoring
- Experience with SLO, SLA, and error-budget practices
- Observability for large-scale or distributed enterprise platforms
- Experience with automated incident response or remediation
- Observability within secure or highly regulated enterprise environments
Full description
Peraton Overview
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Responsibilities
We are seeking Observability / Site Reliability Engineers to design, implement, and operate telemetry and reliability capabilities across enterprise infrastructure, platform services, applications, and workloads.
The engineers will implement centralized metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts, and reliability practices using OpenTelemetry or equivalent industry standards and approved enterprise tooling. This role combines observability engineering, site reliability practices, production operations, automation, and performance analysis to improve system health, availability, and operational resilience.
Responsibilities
Telemetry Engineering
- Implement standardized collection of metrics, logs, and distributed traces across enterprise environments.
- Establish OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation and telemetry collection patterns where appropriate.
- Integrate cloud, Kubernetes, platform, application, and infrastructure telemetry into centralized observability services.
- Maintain telemetry pipelines, retention, routing, and data-quality controls.
- Develop and maintain instrumentation and telemetry configurations to support effective system monitoring and troubleshooting.
Reliability & Performance Engineering
- Develop dashboards, alerts, service-health views, and operational metrics to provide visibility into system performance and availability.
- Define and monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs), availability indicators, latency, error rates, saturation, and capacity measures.
- Analyze system performance, capacity, utilization, and operational trends to identify potential reliability issues and corrective actions.
- Apply site reliability engineering practices to improve system availability, performance, scalability, and operational resilience.