Cloud / SRE Engineer

Overview

Noblis and our wholly owned subsidiaries, Noblis ESI and Noblis MSD, take on some of the nation’s toughest challenges, delivering advanced solutions to our customers’ most critical missions. We bring together leading scientific, engineering, and management expertise in a culture grounded in objectivity and collaboration, ensuring our work creates lasting impact across federal missions.

We work with a broad range of government agencies in the defense, intelligence, and federal civilian sectors.

Responsibilities

Lead the reliability, performance and operations workstreams for the FAA System-Wide Information Management (SWIM) Flight Data Publication Service (SFDPS) program: define RMA improvement plans, implement SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs/SLAs), lead incident response playbooks, and architect cloud-native solutions to meet FAA Efficiency Critical requirements during the migration.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Define and implement SRE program for SFDPS: set SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and runbooks tied to FAA Efficiency Critical objectives.
• Lead performance tuning, capacity planning, and high-availability design across containerized services.
• Design resilient architectures in the FAA cloud (multi-AZ, autoscaling, disaster recovery patterns).
• Drive CI/CD for safety- and compliance-focused deployments.
• Define security controls and coordinate with Authorizing Officials and security SMEs to meet FedRAMP/FISMA and FAA baselines (hardening, secrets management, vulnerability scanning).
• Lead major incidents and postmortems; ensure permanent corrective actions to raise availability and maintainability.
• Provide architectural guidance, mentor mid/junior engineers, and represent the engineering team to stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree and 9 years of relevant professional experience.
• Substitutions: Any subsitutions are subject to further customer review and approvals or Associates degree and 11 years of relevant professional experience or Masters degree and 6 yars of total relevant experience.
• A strong engineering background in systems reliability, cloud operations, and container platforms.
• Hands-on experience developing and maintaining Java-based applications, including debugging, optimization, and refactoring.
• Proficiency in a language suited for high-throughput systems, such as Java, Go, Python, or .NET for backend development.
• Deep experience with Red Hat/OpenShift, Kubernetes architecture, and container security best practices.
• Proven SRE experience: defining SLIs/SLOs, implementing monitoring/alerting, and incident management.
• Strong IaC and automation experience (Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines).
• Practical experience working with C and/or C++ components, especially in integration with Java or containerization scenarios.
• Proficient scripting ability in Python, Bash, or similar to automate build, deploy, and cloud operations workflows.
• Hands-on experience in a FedRAMP/Government cloud environment and working with federal security/compliance controls strongly preferred.
• Proven experience with at least one major message broker, such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Solace, or NATS.
• Experience with data serialization formats, specifically JSON, XML, Avro, or Protobuf.
• Knowledge of messaging protocols like AMQP, MQTT, JMS, or STOMP.
• Understanding of asynchronous messaging patterns, pub-sub, and point-to-point queues.
• Strong communication, leadership, and cross-team coordination skills; Agile experience (Scrum, SAFe) and prior role as technical lead or site reliability lead.
• U.S. citizen or Green Card Permanent Resident (3+ years ouf of the last 5 years U.S. residency).
• Ability to obtain and maintain FAA Suitability.

Desired Qualifications

• Certifications: CKA, RHCE, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (GovCloud), CISSP, or similar.
• Prior FAA or ATM systems experience is highly desirable.
• Experience with Cloud-based messaging services (e.g.AWS SNS/SQS, Azure Service Bus, Google Pub/Sub).