# Site Reliability Engineer

Piper Companies is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to support the development, maintenance, and operation of a Kubernetes-based platform in regulated cloud and on-premises environments. The role focuses on platform reliability, scalability, security, automation, and compliance, with onsite work at Fort Meade, Maryland. Responsibilities Build, maintain, and support Kubernetes clusters across on-premises and AWS environments Monitor platform reliability, availability, and performance through observability, alerting, and troubleshooting activities Develop and implement automation tools and processes to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual intervention Collaborate with senior engineers to define and track service reliability metrics, including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets Support compliance, security, auditing, and continuous monitoring initiatives within regulated environments Contribute to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development and enhancements using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar technologies Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes to support platform scalability and operational excellence Partner with Security, Platform, and Applica

- **Id**: 3856555
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zachary-piper-solutions-site-reliability-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Fort Meade, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T04:56:19Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T12:20:45Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-06T12:20:45Z
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2686
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Recruiting & Staffing, IT Staffing & Staff Augmentation

## Company

- **Id**: 3876511
- **Name**: Zachary Piper Solutions
- **Domain**: zacharypiper.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/zachary-piper-solutions>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Salary

- **Min**: 160000
- **Max**: 170000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 170000

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **CloudFormation** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Ruby** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **ArgoCD** — Optional: yes
- **FedRAMP** — Optional: yes
- **GitOps** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T06:36:55Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-06T12:20:45Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 170000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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