Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer

Bellevue, WA

Hybrid

12 month contract

Overview

We’re building a Cyber Threat Intelligence program that doesn’t look like anyone else’s. Not derivative. Not incremental. We are redefining how intelligence at scale works inside a modern enterprise — starting with a custom, high-fidelity sensor platform that feeds our analysts the kind of telemetry most teams only wish they had.

To get there, we need an engineer who is equal parts SRE, DevOps, and security-minded builder. You won’t be asked to guess in the dark — the sensors, direction, and early groundwork are already in place. What we need now is someone who can step in, understand the mission, and turn a strong foundation into a hardened, reliable, production-grade capability.

This role matters. The work you do will directly influence how threats are detected, tracked, and understood by a CTI organization built to set the bar for the industry.

Responsibilities

SRE / DevOps – Building the Sensor Platform

• Build and refine Docker containers for our internal CTI sensors.
• Use Ansible to make deployments consistent, automated, and repeatable across distributed Linux systems.
• Own and evolve our GitLab CI/CD pipelines: builds, registries, deployment workflows, and everything in between.
• Review the current state of the platform and quickly identify what needs to happen next to make it stable, scalable, and production-ready.
• Improve observability, uptime, and the general “it just works” experience of our sensor infrastructure.
• Help guide the evolution toward orchestration (Nomad, Kubernetes, etc.).

Security Engineering & Hardening – Making It Tough

• Apply security best practices across OS, containers, Kubernetes, cloud, and network layers.
• Lead ongoing hardening: patching, configuration baselines, secrets management, and enforcing least privilege.
• Work closely with CTI and Security Engineering to ensure the platform is secure by default, not secure by cleanup.
• Integrate security controls directly into CI/CD (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, container scanning).
• Improve IAM roles, service accounts, and access boundaries so the platform stays tight without getting in the way.

Required Skills

• Strong experience building and optimizing Docker images.
• Solid Ansible skills for automated deployments and config management.
• Hands-on GitLab CI/CD experience.
• Linux systems knowledge and networking fundamentals.
• Practical experience with infrastructure hardening.
• Ability to look at an evolving environment and confidently say: “Here’s what we do next.”
• Comfortable working in a security-forward environment with CTI analysts and engineers.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Kubernetes, Nomad, or other orchestrators.
• Observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK).
• Familiarity with secrets management tools.
• Experience with sensors, agents, or distributed telemetry systems.
• Python or Go scripting experience.