Who is Element?
We serve as a partner at the intersection of innovation and our clients' needs, efficiently crafting meaningful user experiences for government and commercial customers. By breaking down complex problems to their fundamental elements, we create modern digital solutions that drive efficiencies, maximize taxpayer dollars, and deliver essential outcomes that serve the people.
Why Work at Element?
Make an impact that resonates-join our vibrant team and discover how you can improve lives through digital transformation. Our talented professionals bring unparalleled energy engagement, setting a higher standard for impactful work. Come be a part of our team and shape a better future.
Position Summary
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) serves as the Technical Architecture & Stability Assessment Lead responsible for evaluating the reliability, scalability, and operational resilience of complex enterprise infrastructure environments. This role supports a structured 16-week technical assessment and optional implementation phase focused on identifying stability risks, mapping infrastructure dependencies, and strengthening existing architecture to support operational continuity during modernization initiatives.
Element’s approach prioritizes practical stabilization over unnecessary redesign. Rather than introducing large-scale architectural transformations, this role emphasizes reinforcing the current infrastructure to withstand coexistence pressures and operational demands while sequencing improvements responsibly.
Key Responsibilities
Conducting current-state infrastructure mapping across application, platform, and hosting layers, documenting and recommending improvements.
Performing dependency and integration analysis across interconnected enterprise systems.
Identifying single points of failure and systemic reliability risks.
Supporting datacenter transition modeling and infrastructure transition sequencing.
Conducting Citrix dependency analysis and migration sequencing recommendations.
Evaluating system performance, scalability, and operational resilience under high-volume workloads.
Providing modularization and decoupling recommendations to reduce operational fragility and support phased modernization and migration efforts.
Advising on supporting operations and development teams on continuity strategies that allow legacy and modern systems to operate reliably in tandem during modernization and migrations.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
This individual brings 10+ years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering, site reliability engineering, or enterprise platform architecture, including experience supporting complex enterprise environments.
Demonstrated experience conducting enterprise architecture or infrastructure assessments.
Enterprise infrastructure architecture and systems engineering
Extensive experience in hybrid hosting environments and modernization and cloud migration planning.
Virtualization platform management.
Performance engineering and scalability assessments for high-volume systems.
Experience designing or advising on system resilience and operational continuity strategies.
Experience in Infrastructure stabilization during large-scale multi-application modernization or migration initiatives.
Strong analytical and systems-thinking abilities.
Excellent technical documentation and architecture diagramming skills.
Strong stakeholder communication and facilitation abilities.
US Citizenship or Permanent Residency required.
Must reside in the Continental US; located in the state of Pennsylvania a plus, but not required.
Depending on the government agency, specific requirements may include public trust background check or security clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Citrix App and Desktop Virtualization.
Certification in any of the following is a plus:
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Google Professional Cloud Architect
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
ITIL Foundation
Experience working with large public sector, healthcare system environments, or within the State/Commonwealth is a plus.
Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF or similar).Experience supporting legacy system environments undergoing modernization.
Location
Be in your Element. We are a remote-first company based in Washington, DC.
Element is an equal opportunity employer All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected class.
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