Senior SRE Engineer

• SRE Cloud Foundations SRE, G10 Level: L2 Location: Remote, prefer PST hours
• You should be able to apply strong practical cloud infrastructure judgment, partner with other teams, and mentor engineers who need help navigating secure and compliant cloud adoption.

Responsibilities

• You’ll Do • Build and operate AWS GovCloud foundations for FedRAMP High and IL5, including AWS Organizations, Control Tower, account provisioning lifecycle, and account automation. • Implement and maintain service control policies, landing-zone patterns, and cloud governance automation. • Build reusable infrastructure-as-code modules and paved-road patterns that help engineering teams deploy securely and consistently. • Support standardized cloud resource creation and management, including VPC patterns, prefix lists, IAM patterns, and account-level controls. • Build or adapt

Requirements

• UC Citizenship Role Summary Our SRE Cloud Foundations team is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build the secure cloud foundations required for FedRAMP High and IL5.
• This role is for an independent senior engineer who can own large features or bounded cloud foundation systems with minimal guidance.
• You will design and build AWS GovCloud foundations, account provisioning automation, service control policies, guardrails, shared Terraform modules, cloud resource standards, FinOps reporting, and compliance-oriented automation.
• Foundations services for federal use, including cloud account workflows, email service enablement, GCP project/key management, FinOps reporting, and cloud compliance automation. • Partner with other teams to translate FedRAMP High and IL5 requirements into practical cloud architecture and operating models. • Participate in responder duties, cost anomaly response, cloud support channels, operational ticket triage, and production support. • Produce documentation, runbooks, design notes, and evidence-friendly operational records. • Provide guidance and technical feedback to engineers adopting secure cloud patterns.
• You Are an Ideal Candidate If You Have • 8+ years of experience in SRE, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure software. • Hands-on experience with AWS multi-account environments, AWS Organizations, IAM, Terraform, and cloud governance. • Experience building automation in Python, Go, Ruby, or similar languages. • Familiarity with Control Tower, Account Factory for Terraform, CloudFormation, EventBridge, Lambda, SQS, IAM Identity Center, or similar AWS platform services. • Strong understanding of reliability, security, cost management, and developer experience tradeoffs in cloud platforms. • Ability to partner with engineering teams as a trusted advisor while still enforcing clear cloud standards. • Strong written communication and comfort documenting processes for audit, handoff, and operational support.

Preferred

• Experience with AWS GovCloud, FedRAMP, DoD IL5, FIPS, or regulated SaaS environments. • Experience with FinOps, cloud cost reporting, guardrail platforms, compliance automation, or account provisioning workflows. • Experience building reusable Terraform modules or paved-road cloud patterns for internal engineering teams.