[Remote] Cloud SRE Systems Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Integral delivers technology solutions for federal defense, intelligence, and civilian organizations. The Cloud Site Reliability Engineering Systems Engineer will ensure the reliability, availability, performance, and operational excellence of VA product environments in the VA Enterprise Cloud, while managing cloud operations, deployments, monitoring, automation, compliance, and incident response.
Responsibilities
- Applies SRE practices, manages cloud environments, performs patching and automation, ensures compliance with required Service Level Targets (SLTs), supports deployments, handles incidents, and maintains monitoring, observability, and operational documentation
- Maintain all environments in an operational state across VAEC, including application/system hardware 24x7x365
- Apply OS and application patches and perform backup and restoration activities
- Support software releases (often outside core hours) and validate maximum load after production deployment
- Manage and optimize cloud resource utilization, including capacity planning and forecasting
- Implement SRE practices and patterns to improve reliability, performance, automation, fault tolerance, telemetry, logging, and alerting across distributed and microservices architectures
- Improve fault tolerance for distributed/microservices systems when components or resources become temporarily unavailable
- Conduct trend analysis of system performance and resource utilization to forecast future demand and identify bottlenecks
- Implement real-time proactive monitoring dashboards enabling visibility into system health and alerting
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science or IT related degree with 7-10 years' experience
- Knowledge of modern SRE practices: automation, resilience engineering, observability, fault tolerance, SLT/SLA adherence, and incident analysis
- Experience producing monitoring reports, SLT assessments, postmortems, and operational dashboards
- Experience with Jira and GitHub
- Competency maintaining IRPs, DRPs, backup/restore plans, and executing continuity operations
- Strong documentation and communication skills for reporting outages, SLT performance, and incident updates
- Public Trust
- Experience with AWS VA Enterprise Cloud (VAEC)
- Experience with Azure DevOps
Benefits
- Paid parental leave
- Immediate vesting in the 401(k)
- Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Paid Time Off & Holidays
- Earned Bonuses & Awards
- Professional Training Reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program
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