Cato Networks
Senior SRE - Government Cloud Operations
$160K–$180K
USA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 23, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years.
About the job
Operates and improves secure, reliable cloud platforms for regulated government environments, including FedRAMP High and DoD IL4+ deployments.
What you'll do
- Own production operations, incident response, reliability improvements, and disaster recovery for mission-critical services.
- Implement compliance, continuous monitoring, audit readiness, and vulnerability management across cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms.
- Build automation, secure CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and observability tooling.
What they ask for
- 7+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, Cloud Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering.
- Hands-on experience operating regulated cloud environments and supporting authorization (ATO) and post-authorization continuous monitoring.
- Strong knowledge of NIST 800-53 controls, vulnerability remediation SLAs, secure configuration management, and audit evidence generation.
- Experience with IaC, GitOps, secure CI/CD, operational scripting in Python, Go, or Bash, and cloud-native technologies including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Nice to have
- Terraform experience; familiarity with STIG implementation across Kubernetes, Linux, and container runtimes.
- Experience with 3PAOs, auditors, or compliance assessors; understanding of Zero Trust or disaster recovery validation.
Pay
$160,000 - $180,000 USD total compensation
Tools
Terraform, Python, Go, Bash, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Linux/Unix
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