Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (SRE): Terraform IAC, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, F5 | Active TS

Location: Fully onsite at a secure federal installation in the Washington, DC metro area. Relocation and travel assistance available. For teams of two or more in the same region, alternate accredited SCIF work locations may be supported.

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KORE1, a nationwide provider of staffing and recruiting solutions, has an immediate opening for a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (SRE): Terraform IAC, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, F5 | Active TS

As a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) III, you'll work as part of a collaborative and high-performing team providing your expertise to deliver technical solutions to a highly secure federal environment

What you'll do:

• Design, deploy, and maintain mission-critical application workloads on virtualized or containerized environments (e.g., VMware amd Kubernetes), ensuring scalability, availability, and compliance with government requirements.
• Design, implement, and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform to provision, manage, and standardize infrastructure across highly secure environments.
• Develop and sustain automated CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and configuration management workflows to support reliable software delivery and operational observability across development, integration, staging, and production environments.
• Administer, optimize, and troubleshoot Kubernetes platforms supporting containerized applications, platform services, storage integrations, and production workloads.
• Engineer and maintain enterprise load-balancing, traffic management, and application delivery services utilizing F5 technologies to support highly available mission-critical applications.
• Develop and maintain automation tooling using PowerShell, Bash, and related scripting technologies to improve operational efficiency, platform consistency, and infrastructure reliability.
• Provision, configure, and maintain developer environments and toolchains to support rapid, secure, and efficient development workflows, enabling mission-aligned software delivery.
• Identify developer friction across the software development lifecycle and implement solutions to reduce that friction while providing developer-first platforms and environments.
• Establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence through deep technical expertise and provide innovative solutions aligned with mission requirements.

What you'll need to succeed:

• Active U.S. Government Issued Top Secret security clearance (or higher level classification).
• Certification meeting DoD 8140 (e.g., Security , or higher).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related engineering field is preferred; relevant experience may substitute.
• 7 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or Operations roles supporting highly available production systems
• Demonstrated experience blending software engineering and systems administration practices to support highly available, scalable applications.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) for infrastructure provisioning, lifecycle management, and environment standardization.
• Strong hands-on experience administering and supporting Kubernetes-based container platforms in production environments.
• Experience with Ansible automation, Desired State Configuration, and infrastructure orchestration frameworks.
• Experience developing and maintaining GitLab CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows.
• Strong scripting and automation experience using PowerShell and/or Bash.
• Experience with F5 enterprise load-balancing, traffic management, application delivery, and high-availability solutions.
• Experience designing and managing monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to meet defined Service Level Objectives.
• Experience leading or participating in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities.
• Experience supporting container-native storage and object storage solutions (e.g., MinIO, S3-compatible services, and PortWorx).
• Ability to contribute immediately with minimal ramp-up in a mission-critical operational environment.

SALARY RANGE: $170-220K.

The salary range for this position is determined based on qualifications, skills, and relevant experience. The final salary offered will be determined based on several factors including:

• The candidate's professional background and relevant work experience
• The specific responsibilities of the role and organizational needs
• Internal equity and alignment with current team compensation

This role is also eligible for additional compensation, subject to the terms and policies, which may include:

• Performance-based bonuses
• Company-paid training and/or certifications