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At Ardent , we hire people who want more than a job — they want to serve a mission that matters. Our teams support the federal government’s most critical national security and defense priorities, helping protect the nation, strengthen resilience, and advance the technologies and capabilities that keep America secure. For veterans, cleared professionals, and purpose-driven innovators, Ardent is a place to continue serving alongside a team that understands the importance of the mission and the people behind it. We also know top talent has choices, which is why we back our mission with benefits and flexibility that stand out: competitive pay, comprehensive health coverage, flexible PTO, federal holidays off, tuition reimbursement, professional development support, wellness stipends, and a culture that values and rewards hard work, dedication, and adaptability. If you want to build something meaningful, while enjoying the kind of flexibility and support that you need to do your best work — Ardent is where your next mission begins. Ardent is seeking a  Reliability Engineer to join our team.  This is an onsite role in Ashburn, VA. Although the main shift is 7:00a.m. to 3:00p.m., candidate must be open to working 2nd or 3rd shift in a 24/7/365 environment.  Position Description: We are seeking a skilled Team Lead/Reliability Engineer to support our client's mission by enhancing Production Monitoring and ensuring optimal service delivery for their applications. This role involves proactive issue identification, incident resolution, and system health optimization within a 24x7x365 operational environment. The ideal candidate will lead monitoring solutions, manage other reliability engineers, and collaborate across IT and business teams to improve service reliability. Expertise in AWS environments, root cause analysis, and technical troubleshooting is essential, along with strong communication and leadership skills to drive continuous improvement. Requirements: Experience in Production Monitoring & Support within a 24x7x365 operational environment. Strong expertise in incident management, root cause analysis, and problem resolution for cloud-based applications. Hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and cloud-based monitoring tools. Ability to build and implement monitoring solutions, automate manual processes, and create alerts to ensure system stability. Experience with system health monitoring, and troubleshooting production issues. Strong leadership skills to collaborate with IT, business, and infrastructure teams to improve production support processes. Effective communication skills to provide updates, incident reports, and status updates to leadership and stakeholders. Ability to develop and maintain technical documentation and knowledge base resources for production support. Experience in triaging and resolving production incidents, assessing severity, and properly escalating issues. Responsibilities and Duties: Manage Team schedules assuring every shift is manned every day of the year. Be on-call 24/7 to assist in emergency situations. Proactive and early notification of potential and actual issues impacting service delivery. Frequent and succinct communication to PSPD leadership during and post incident. Identification of trends and corrective measures. Provide needed metrics to PSPD leadership team. The enhanced Production Monitoring Services Branch will provide resources to staff the operation 24x7x365. The resources should provide additional technical support and diagnosis. Customer Facing: Build monitoring and production support solutions to provide customer with visibility towards our services. Triage and resolve production incidents related to the cloud platform and participate in root cause analysis and postmortem discussions. Asses initial severity, gather impacts, create tickets, en