Site Reliability / Observability Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 5, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 3, 2026.
About Zaden Technologies
Zaden Technologies is a defense technology company based in Huntsville, Alabama. We build AI, DevSecOps and digital engineering products and put them to work for DoD customers.
Own monitoring, alerting and availability for the test infrastructure behind the Defense Health Agency's health IT programs.
You'll support a new Defense Health Agency program. This position is contingent upon contract award, and the start date will align with the program start.
What you'll do:
- Run monitoring, observability and alerting across both enclaves
- Define availability measures and the dashboards that track them
- Lead incident response and post-incident reviews for Severity 1 and 2 events
- Automate toil out of operations
Must have:
- 5 or more years in site reliability, systems or operations engineering
- Hands-on with a monitoring stack such as Splunk, Prometheus and Grafana, or Zabbix
- Experience on an incident on-call rotation
- U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and keep the background investigation DHA designates for this position
- DoD 8140 qualification for your work role before privileged access, or the ability to earn it within six months
Nice to have:
- vSphere and Linux depth
- Experience in a DoD or federal environment
- An active Secret clearance or higher
Location: Chantilly, Virginia (Washington, D.C. area) is preferred, on site at the test center. Remote from Huntsville, Alabama, or from anywhere in the continental U.S. also works, through government-approved virtual desktop access, with trips to Chantilly when the work needs them.
Citizenship: U.S. citizenship is required for the investigation this role needs. Zaden's FSO verifies investigation status.
Pay range: $123,000 to $163,000 per year. Your location and experience set where you land in the range.
Questions about this role? Email [email protected].
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