Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer
Role Overview
As the recognized global standard for project-based businesses, Deltek delivers software and information solutions to help organizations achieve their purpose. Our market leadership stems from the work of our diverse employees who are united by a passion for learning, growing and making a difference. At Deltek, we take immense pride in creating a balanced, values-driven environment, where every employee feels included and empowered to do their best work. Our employees put our core values into action daily, creating a one-of-a-kind culture that has been recognized globally. Thanks to our incredible team, Deltek has been named one of America's Best Midsize Employers by Forbes, a Best Place to Work by Glassdoor, a Top Workplace by The Washington Post and a Best Place to Work in Asia by World HRD Congress. www.deltek.com
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Company Summary
As the recognized global standard for project-based businesses, Deltek delivers software and information solutions to help organizations achieve their purpose. Our market leadership stems from the work of our diverse employees who are united by a passion for learning, growing and making a difference. At Deltek, we take immense pride in creating a balanced, values-driven environment, where every employee feels included and empowered to do their best work. Our employees put our core values into action daily, creating a one-of-a-kind culture that has been recognized globally. Thanks to our incredible team, Deltek has been named one of America's Best Midsize Employers by Forbes, a Best Place to Work by Glassdoor, a Top Workplace by The Washington Post and a Best Place to Work in Asia by World HRD Congress. www.deltek.com
Position Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain the infrastructure and tooling that underpins Deltek's SaaS platforms at scale.
- Drive reliability improvements across the full stack, spanning application-level resilience patterns through to infrastructure-level fault tolerance.
- Uphold and extend our infrastructure as code-first engineering culture, where all infrastructure changes are made through code and shipped to production via fully automated CI/CD pipelines.
- Develop internal tooling and automation to reduce toil and increase engineering self-service.
- Design and maintain comprehensive observability solutions including logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting across our AWS-based infrastructure.
- Proactively identify performance bottlenecks and reliability risks before they impact customers.
- Conduct capacity planning and load testing to ensure systems can scale to meet demand.
- Participate in an on-call rotation, acting as a first responder for production incidents affecting our SaaS platforms.
- Own post-incident reviews, facilitate blameless post-mortems, identify root causes, and ensure action items are tracked and completed.
- Take pride in leaving systems better than you found them, consistently reducing the frequency and impact of incidents over time.
- Partner with software engineering teams to review system designs and architectures with a reliability lens.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers on SRE practices, tooling, and operational excellence.
- Contribute to a strong team culture, supportive, curious, and focused on doing great work while having fun.
- JavaScript / Node.js
- C# / .NET
- Python
- Docker & Kubernetes
- PostgreSQL
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies
- Terraform
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 7 years of overall experience in software development, infrastructure engineering, or site reliability engineering.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in an SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering role in a production SaaS environment.
- 3+ years applying an automation-first approach to problem-solving using configuration management tools and scripting.
- Strong experience with AWS; familiarity with services such as EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, and IAM.
- Infrastructure-as-Code mentality with tools like Terraform.
- Demonstrated experience in building high-quality products or services.
- Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language (Python, Node.js, or similar) for automation and tooling development.
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals: DNS, load balancing, TLS, firewalls, and VPCs.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Solid understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) including query performance and operational concerns.
- Hands-on experience with observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch, or similar).
- Strong communication skills: ability to explain work, ask great questions, listen to peers and customers, influence without authority, and give and receive feedback.
- Passion for building software that solves real problems for real people.
- Commitment to writing well-designed, easy-to-test, and maintainable code.
- Calm under pressure, able to lead effectively during high-severity incidents.
- Blameless, growth-oriented mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.
Career Interests
Software Development/Design
Compensation Info
- The salary range for this position is $78,500.00-$120,750.00. This range is subject to change as Deltek takes a number of factors into consideration when determining individual base pay, such as location, job-related knowledge, skills and experience. Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including incentive compensation and equity. Benefits and perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of employment with Deltek. Employees have access to healthcare benefits, paid vacation time and holidays, well-living programs, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and tuition reimbursement.
Position Type
FT
Travel Requirements
- No
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About Deltek
Private American enterprise software company providing ERP and project-lifecycle solutions to government contractors and project-based businesses.
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