Site Reliability Engineer/ GitHub Admin

Summary

Easy Dynamics Corporation is an IT service provider specializing in cybersecurity, cloud computing, and risk management for federal agencies. The Site Reliability Engineer / GitHub Administrator owns the health, security, and usability of the organization’s GitHub environment while applying SRE practices to maintain reliable, observable, and automated delivery platforms. The role administers GitHub organizations and repositories, manages GitHub Actions CI/CD, automates workflows, and supports security, compliance, and developer experience.

Responsibilities

• Administer the GitHub environment, including organizations, teams, repositories, branch protection rules, and permission models
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, including reusable workflows, self-hosted runners, and environment protection rules
• Manage GitHub security capabilities, including secret scanning, code scanning (CodeQL), Dependabot, and audit log monitoring
• Enforce repository standards, governance policies, and least-privilege access controls
• Automate platform administration and operational workflows using scripting and the GitHub API and CLI
• Monitor platform availability and performance against defined SLOs, and tune alerting to reduce noise
• Respond to platform and pipeline incidents, lead troubleshooting, and contribute to blameless postmortems
• Integrate GitHub with identity providers (SSO/SAML/SCIM) and adjacent tooling such as project management and security scanners
• Support migrations to GitHub from other version control systems
• Maintain platform documentation, runbooks, and onboarding guides, and advise developers on branching strategies and effective GitHub usage

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• 4+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering roles
• Solid hands-on experience administering GitHub (Enterprise Cloud or Server), including organization and permission management
• Strong working knowledge of GitHub Actions, including workflow design, secrets handling, and runner management
• Supports day-to-day GitHub Copilot rollout for development teams, including onboarding, prompt engineering best practices, and troubleshooting Copilot usage, drawing on GitHub Copilot certification-level skills
• Experience with GitHub security features, such as secret scanning, Dependabot, and code scanning
• Proficiency scripting against the GitHub API and CLI using Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, such as Terraform or Ansible
• Working knowledge of SRE fundamentals, including SLOs/SLIs, incident management, and postmortems
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling, such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or Splunk
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Public Trust or Security Clearance
• Experience supporting federal government clients or contracts is a plus
• GitHub certifications, such as GitHub Actions or GitHub Administration, are a plus

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• 4+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering roles
• Solid hands-on experience administering GitHub (Enterprise Cloud or Server), including organization and permission management
• Strong working knowledge of GitHub Actions, including workflow design, secrets handling, and runner management
• Supports day-to-day GitHub Copilot rollout for development teams, including onboarding, prompt engineering best practices, and troubleshooting Copilot usage, drawing on GitHub Copilot certification-level skills
• Experience with GitHub security features, such as secret scanning, Dependabot, and code scanning
• Proficiency scripting against the GitHub API and CLI using Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, such as Terraform or Ansible
• Working knowledge of SRE fundamentals, including SLOs/SLIs, incident management, and postmortems
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling, such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or Splunk
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Public Trust or Security Clearance

Nice to Haves

• Experience supporting federal government clients or contracts is a plus
• GitHub certifications, such as GitHub Actions or GitHub Administration, are a plus

Benefits

• Remote work in the United States