Lead Site Reliability Engineer

About the role

The Boeing Company is looking for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to join the Air Dominance Site Reliability Engineering team located in Berkeley, MO.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the Site Reliability Engineering technical strategy for GitLab, CI/CD runners, Jira, Confluence, PostgreSQL, Artifactory, SonarQube, and related developer tooling infrastructure
• Establish platform reliability architecture, operational standards, SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, KPIs, error budgets, observability patterns, capacity models, backup strategies, and disaster recovery approaches
• Provide technical leadership across GitLab, CI/CD runners, Jira, Confluence, PostgreSQL, Artifactory, SonarQube, and related developer tooling infrastructure
• Lead architecture and design reviews for developer tooling infrastructure, CI/CD runner topology, PostgreSQL operations, cloud-based and on-premises infrastructure, monitoring, alerting, access controls, and platform integrations
• Drive automation, Infrastructure as Code, Ansible, configuration management, and repeatable operational patterns that reduce toil and improve reliability
• Mentor and technically guide SREs in operational excellence, troubleshooting, automation, secure administration, and architectural thinking
• Partner with program leadership, cybersecurity, infrastructure, software engineering, database, networking, suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders
• Identify platform risks, technical debt, capacity constraints, single points of failure, compliance concerns, and operational gaps, then drive remediation plans
• Define, collect, analyze, and refine software delivery and platform reliability metrics for team execution, management visibility, and continuous improvement
• Develop and maintain architecture documentation, design patterns, standards, operational readiness criteria, and executive technical briefings
• Influence support models, maintenance strategies, escalation paths, and investment priorities based on mission impact and operational risk
• Lead efforts to operationally field higher-quality end-to-end system software more frequently
• Participate in after-hours support and escalation for urgent or mission-impacting issues as required

Requirements

• Active Secret U.S. Security Clearance
• Bachelor's Degree
• 14+ years of experience with DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, software engineering, and/or cloud engineering
• Experience with GitLab, Azure DevOps and CI/CD
• Experience with technical leadership
• Experience with designing and implementing scalable computing infrastructure for data solutions, including cloud architectures (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Experience conducting root cause analysis of design failures

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science
• 14+ years of related work experience or Bachelor’s Degree and 18+ years of directly related work experience or 22+ years of related, relevant experience
• Experience communicating technical strategy, risk, tradeoffs, and recommendations to senior technical and program leadership
• Deep experience administering or architecting GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, GitLab runners, or comparable enterprise source control and CI/CD platforms
• Deep experience administering or architecting Jira, Confluence, or other Atlassian products in an enterprise environment
• Experience with PostgreSQL architecture and operations, including backup and recovery, replication, performance tuning, storage planning, maintenance, and high-availability patterns
• Experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Infrastructure as Code, Ansible, configuration management, containers, Docker, Kubernetes, virtualization, artifact management, secrets management, and secure software delivery practices
• Experience administering or architecting Artifactory, SonarQube, Jenkins, or similar software delivery tools
• Experience designing observability platforms, alerting strategies, SLO frameworks, service health dashboards, and operational reporting
• Experience supporting Air Dominance, classified, air-gapped, or highly regulated engineering environments
• Experience developing disaster recovery strategy, continuity of operations plans, recovery time objectives, recovery point objectives, and restore validation programs
• Experience guiding cybersecurity hardening, vulnerability remediation, audit readiness, privileged access controls, and compliance-driven operations
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence across engineering teams, customers, suppliers, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and program stakeholders
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to produce architecture documentation, executive briefings, technical roadmaps, and decision records

Skills

• Conflict of Interest: Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company’s Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.
• Drug Free Workplace: Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

Benefits

• At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
• The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

Pay & Benefits

• The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
• Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Summary Pay Range

$198,050 - $267,950

Shift

This position is for 1st shift

Equal Opportunity Employer

Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.