[Remote] GOV Site Reliability Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Veeam Software is the Data and AI Trust Company, focusing on data resilience and security. They are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to support their Government and Sovereign Cloud environment, where the role involves incident response, reliability improvements, and collaboration across engineering and compliance teams.

Responsibilities

• Get up to speed on VDC workloads, dependencies, and operational workflows by reading code, docs, and working with SMEs
• Write and maintain runbooks, incident guides, and operational documentation
• Support knowledge transfer and contribute to onboarding materials for the team
• Participate in incident response including triage, investigation, mitigation, and postmortems
• Help implement and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets defined by the team
• Identify reliability issues during incidents or reviews and propose concrete improvements
• Support high availability and fault tolerance work on Azure, including Azure Government
• Close monitoring gaps by implementing instrumentation, alerting, and dashboards based on team standards
• Contribute to toil reduction through automation and tooling improvements
• Participate in on-call rotations
• Work with IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment tooling in compliance-restricted environments
• Support testing, canary deployments, and release validation workflows
• Implement changes to infrastructure and configuration following established patterns and review processes
• Work with engineering, security, compliance, and operations teams to execute on reliability improvements
• Communicate clearly about system behavior, risk, and status — in writing and in meetings
• Raise blockers and gaps proactively; don't wait for problems to escalate

Skills

• 3+ years in Software Engineering, with at least 1 year in SRE, Platform Engineering, or DevOps working on cloud-hosted services
• Experience with cloud infrastructure on Azure or a comparable cloud provider
• Familiarity with regulated or compliance-oriented environments such as government (FedRAMP, CMMC), financial (PCI-DSS), or healthcare (HIPAA). You understand that compliance shapes what you can and can't do operationally
• Able to read and understand code well enough to investigate system behavior without always having someone walk you through it
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK stack)
• Experience with IaC tools (Terraform, Terragrunt, or Pulumi) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, or ArgoCD
• Strong programming skills in one or more of: TypeScript/JS, Go, Java, C#, or similar
• Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals and networking basics
• Clear written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in Government or Sovereign Cloud environments (e.g., Azure Government, AWS GovCloud)
• Background in SaaS platforms or multi-tenant systems
• Familiarity with chaos engineering, resilience testing, or load testing
• Exposure to building or improving reliability practices on a team
• Familiar with AI-first development workflows using LLM-powered tools for automation, code generation, or documentation

Benefits

• Unlimited paid time off, 12 paid holidays including 4 global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares
• Paid parental leave: 8 weeks for all parents, 16 weeks for birthing parents
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on your first day
• Mental health support, therapy sessions, and digital wellness tools via our Employee Assistance Program
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions
• Fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support through Maven, plus paid volunteer time
• AirVet: 24/7 virtual veterinary care at no cost
• Legal services, identity protection, and supplemental health insurance options
• Tax-advantaged spending accounts for healthcare, dependent care, and commuting
• Opportunities to learn and grow through on-demand libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly), mentoring, workshops, and learning events like our annual Global Day of Learning

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