Satine Technologies
Site Reliability Engineer (Senior / Staff)
Atlanta, GA
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Full time
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Satine Technologies is hiring Site Reliability Engineers at two levels - Senior and Staff - for a mission-critical platform engineering program. We're looking for engineers who want real ownership over the systems they build, not ticket queues and status meetings. No government or federal contracting experience required. Private sector cloud experience is exactly what we're looking for. We'll bring the mission context. Both positions are on the same team working the same platform. The difference is scope of ownership and depth of experience, not the nature of the work. These are contingent positions - employment is subject to contract award and funding. Public Trust eligibility required (US citizenship or LPR).
About Satine Technologies
Description
The Work
You'll build and operate a cloud platform supporting mission-critical software. That means Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines, observability systems, and infrastructure-as-code - owned end to end, not handed off. You'll work alongside software engineers and security engineers who are building real capabilities. Your job is to make sure what they build actually runs.
This is not a ticket-queue SRE role at either level. We want engineers who notice things that need improving and fix them, not engineers who wait to be assigned work.
What You'll Do
- Build and operate Kubernetes clusters and cloud infrastructure
- Own and improve CI/CD pipelines - reliability, deployment safety, rollback capability
- Implement and maintain observability: metrics, logging, alerting, dashboards
- Write Terraform and IaC to provision and manage cloud resources
- Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response for platform issues
- Identify and drive reliability improvements - SLO gaps, toil reduction, capacity issues
- Document what you build so the team can operate and extend it
Levels
We're hiring at two levels. Read both - if you're on the boundary, apply and we'll figure it out together.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Salary: $130,000 - $150,000
This is the right level if you have solid SRE fundamentals and want to keep deepening them. You'll own real platform components, participate in on-call, and have a clear growth path toward Staff scope. The team is small enough that your contributions are visible from day one.
What We're Looking For:
- 5+ years of SRE, DevOps, or systems/infrastructure engineering experience
- Working proficiency with Kubernetes - you understand how it works, not just how to use kubectl
- Hands-on Terraform experience
- Solid cloud fundamentals on at least one major platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Strong Linux command line - comfortable debugging system-level issues
- US citizenship or Lawful Permanent Resident status (Public Trust eligibility required)
Paths In - You Might Be a Fit If You:
- Are a DevOps or infrastructure engineer who has been doing SRE work without the title and wants to make it official
- Come from a development background and have been drawn toward the platform and operations side
- Have been at a larger company where the SRE work felt like ticket-pushing, and want real ownership on a smaller team
- Are earlier in your SRE career but have done real work - you can point to systems you've built or incidents you've owned
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Salary: $145,000 - $165,000
This is the right level if you've been doing serious SRE work for several years and want to own large platform components, not just contribute to them. You'll work directly alongside the Sr Staff SRE who sets technical direction and own significant portions of its implementation. You're expected to bring your own judgment about what needs improving - not wait for it to be assigned.
What We're Looking For:
- 7+ years of SRE, platform engineering, or DevOps experience
- Strong Kubernetes - you've operated clusters in production, not just deployed workloads to them
- Terraform or equivalent IaC at real scale
- Solid Linux fundamentals - you can debug a system-level issue, understand network behavior, read a flame graph
- Experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- US citizenship or Lawful Permanent Resident status (Public Trust eligibility required)
Paths In - You Might Be a Fit If You:
- Have been doing solid SRE work at a startup, product company, or agency and want to work on systems that matter beyond the business metric
- Have been the SRE generalist on a small team - you've done everything and want to go deeper on platform reliability specifically
- Are a strong infrastructure engineer who has been growing into SRE responsibilities and wants to formalize that transition
- Have commercial cloud experience and want to bring those skills somewhere the work has real stakes
Helpful but Not Required (Both Levels)
- Experience with Kafka or event-driven architectures
- Observability stack experience: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar
- Familiarity with security or compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, SOC 2, or similar)
- GitOps experience with tools like ArgoCD or Flux
- Experience with scripting in Python or Bash for automation
About Satine Technologies
Our mission is to protect the institutions that underpin free society from cyber threats. We're a small, mission-driven team that works on problems that matter - from offensive security testing for hospitals and banks to building capabilities for national security missions.
We invest in people who invest in themselves. This isn't a body shop. You'll work with a team that takes pride in technical craft and cares about developing the people who join us.
Benefits
- Health insurance with vision, dental, and HSA
- Life insurance (100% employer-funded)
- 401(k) with 4% match
- Flexible PTO
To all recruitment agencies: Satine Technologies does not accept agency resumes.
Salary
$130,000 - $165,000 per year