MECM Site Reliability Engineering -(w/ active Secret)
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- Use - for lists of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose
- Do NOT repeat job title as heading (page already shows it)
- Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into short
or drop
- Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail
- Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions
- Include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it — never emit heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD")
- Never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them
- Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones
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Now, let's parse the job posting:
Job Title: MECM Site Reliability Engineering - (w/ active Secret)
Location: Norfolk, VA
Clearance: Secret
Type: Full-time, On-site
Salary Range: $87,000 - $112,000. Salary range may vary depending on location.
Primary Roles And Responsibilities (list of bullet points)
Basic Qualifications (list)
Certification Requirement (IAT Level II)
Preferred Qualifications (list)
Key Metrics Of Success For The Team (list)
LOCATION: Onsite, Norfolk, VA; Other acceptable work location: Pearl Harbor, HI
Additional Information: CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT, US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED
Critical Solutions Pay And Benefits: Salary range $87,000 - $112,000 (duplicate), BENEFIT SNAPSHOT: list of benefits
I need to structure this into sections. The user says use
for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
I should not repeat job title. The posting has "Primary Roles And Responsibilities" - that's Responsibilities. "Basic Qualifications" - that's Requirements/Qualifications. "Certification Requirement" could be part of Qualifications. "Preferred Qualifications" - also Qualifications. "Key Metrics Of Success For The Team" - maybe a separate section or part of About the role? Could be "Success Metrics". "Additional Information" includes clearance and citizenship - could be part of Requirements or a separate "Clearance & Citizenship" section. "Critical Solutions Pay And Benefits" includes Pay and Benefits.
The user says: include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it. So we have:
- About the role? The posting doesn't have an explicit "About the role" section, but there is a description at the top: "Work alongside the development and operations teams to ensure speedy and reliable software deployments..." That's part of Responsibilities? Actually the first paragraph under "Primary Roles And Responsibilities" is a prose description. Then bullet points. I'll include an "About the role" section with that prose.
- Responsibilities: the bullet points under Primary Roles And Responsibilities.
- Requirements: Basic Qualifications (list). Also Certification Requirement (IAT Level II) could be part of Requirements.
- Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications (list). Could combine with Requirements? The user says use headings like Requirements, Qualifications. I'll separate: Requirements for basic, Qualifications for preferred.
- Skills? Not explicitly a skills section, but many skills listed in qualifications. Could be part of Requirements/Qualifications.
- Benefits: Benefit Snapshot list.
- Pay: Salary range given.
- Schedule: Type: Full-time, On-site. Location: Norfolk, VA, Pearl Harbor, HI. Could be a Schedule/Location section.
- Clearance: Secret clearance required, US citizenship. Could be a "Clearance" section.
The user says: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. The posting does state Pay (salary range), Benefits (benefit snapshot), Schedule (full-time, on-site, locations). So include them.
Also, the user says: fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Job ID/requisition numbers not present. The "Critical Solutions Pay And Benefits" seems like a company name? Might be boilerplate. But salary range and benefits are substantive.
I'll structure as:
About the role
Work alongside the development and operations teams to ensure speedy and reliable software deployments, monitor systems, and improve overall reliability of the platform. In addition, as you discover and document system bugs, you have the motivation to go off and fix them yourself.
Responsibilities
- Develop features utilize the AI coding tool and repository of scripts to automate, scale, test, and secure the cloud infrastructure and the pipelines.
- Enhance performance monitoring of the various systems via Splunk or other dashboard reporting tools
- Identify performance bottlenecks and optimize the performance of cloud infrastructure
- Contribute to continuing our SRE journey by suggesting ways to improve engineering build, maintenance, automation and reliability across the platform with SRE/DevOps tools and Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Develop and code high-quality pipeline automation workflows to support inside and outside the cloud platform that are appropriate for business and technology strategies.
- Develop and execute test strategies that simulate real-world failure scenarios, including network disruptions, hardware failures, and system overloads.
- Create, script, and run performance tests to measure system behavior under varying levels of load and traffic. Identify bottlenecks, performance degradation, and areas for optimization.
- Design, implement, and maintain automated test suites for infrastructure and application components. Ensure that testing is integrated into the CI/CD pipeline to validate system reliability with every release.
- Build automated systems for continuous performance testing, stress testing, and load testing.
- Work closely with SREs, developers, and operations teams to define reliability goals and develop appropriate testing strategies to validate those goals.
- Ensure that new services and features undergo thorough testing for performance, reliability, and failure recovery before deployment to production.
- Validate that monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms are functioning correctly by testing systems under failure conditions.
- Ensure that Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) are accurately measured and tracked through automated testing frameworks.
- Resolve most conflicts between timeline, budget, and scope independently but intuitively raise sophisticated or consequential issues to senior management
Requirements
- BS degree with prior relevant experience
- Currently possess and ability to maintain an active DoD Secret security clearance
- Minimum of DoD 8570.01 IAT Level II Certification required prior to onboarding and must maintain certification
- Must be able to support program execution in classified environments and access SIPRNet from an NMCI location on short notice (local travel).
- Experience with automated script design, coding, debugging, and maintenance skills (using bash, python, etc.) preferred
- Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM) environments at enterprise scale.
- Proven ability to optimize MECM infrastructure for performance, reliability, and high availability.
- Hands-on experience creating and managing MECM device collections, task sequences, applications, packages, and operating system deployment images.
- Expertise in automating MECM administrative tasks using PowerShell, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Strong background in Windows endpoint management, including patching strategies, compliance baselines, configuration items, and reporting.
- Demonstrated ability to improve endpoint reliability through monitoring, observability tooling, and proactive remediation.
- Experience integrating MECM with cloud-based services such as Intune, Azure AD, and Windows Update for Business.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex MECM client and server issues using logs, diagnostics, and platform health data.
- Experience supporting enterprise-wide operating system deployments and in-place upgrades using MECM automation pipelines.
- Knowledge of SQL Server administration relevant to maintaining MECM databases and enabling performance tuning.
- Experience contributing to system reliability through continuous improvement, infrastructure monitoring, and configuration drift reduction.
- Strong understanding of networking concepts supporting MECM components such as DP distribution, boundary groups, and PXE services
- Ability to work in a highly collaborative, forward thinking, and innovation-driven environment
- Knowledge of Agile and DevSecOps/SRE concepts and best practices, with a desire to grow that knowledge
- Hand-on experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.).
- Experience creating JIRA and/or Azure DevOps workflows, projects, custom configurations
- Experience administrating/maintaining SRE platform via Ansible playbooks (e.g. upgrading Jenkins)
- Experience in automating tasks with scripting languages like PowerShell, or Python
- Integrating/maintaining with various 3rd party CI/CD tools like Jenkins and Gitlab.
- Experience with commercial cloud infrastructure deployment environments such as AWS and Azure.
- Experience with automated provisioning and configuration tools like Terraform, Cloud Formation, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or similar technologies.
- Working knowledge of the Risk Management Framework (RMF), DISA STIGs
Qualifications
- Previous work experience providing support to the NGEN-NMCI program
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation for automating test environments.
- ITILv4, Scrum Master, or Agile SAFe certification(s) or applicable experience
Success metrics
- Improved system reliability, as measured by adherence to Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and reduced Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).
- Comprehensive and regularly updated automated test coverage for all critical systems and infrastructure components.
- Timely identification and resolution of performance bottlenecks and failure points.
- Integration of automated testing into the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring continuous reliability validation.
- Increased scalability and performance of systems under high load due to effective performance testing.
Clearance & citizenship
Must possess an active DoD Secret Clearance. Selected candidate must undergo background investigation (BI) and fingerprinting by the federal agency and successfully pass to qualify for the position. US citizenship is required.
Location & schedule
Full-time, on-site. Primary location: Norfolk, VA. Other acceptable work location: Pearl Harbor, HI.
Pay
Salary range: $87,000 - $112,000. The salary range for this position represents the typical salary range for this job level and does not guarantee a specific salary. Compensation is based upon multiple factors such as responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, certifications, and other requirements.
Benefits
- 100% premium coverage for Medical, Dental, Vision,
for prose - Do NOT repeat job title as heading (page already shows it) - Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into short
or drop - Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail - Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions - Include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it — never emit heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") - Never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them - Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones - Output ONLY HTML fragment — no /, no markdown code fences Now, let's parse the job posting: Job Title: MECM Site Reliability Engineering - (w/ active Secret) Location: Norfolk, VA Clearance: Secret Type: Full-time, On-site Salary Range: $87,000 - $112,000. Salary range may vary depending on location. Primary Roles And Responsibilities (list of bullet points) Basic Qualifications (list) Certification Requirement (IAT Level II) Preferred Qualifications (list) Key Metrics Of Success For The Team (list) LOCATION: Onsite, Norfolk, VA; Other acceptable work location: Pearl Harbor, HI Additional Information: CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT, US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED Critical Solutions Pay And Benefits: Salary range $87,000 - $112,000 (duplicate), BENEFIT SNAPSHOT: list of benefits I need to structure this into sections. The user says use
for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. I should not repeat job title. The posting has "Primary Roles And Responsibilities" - that's Responsibilities. "Basic Qualifications" - that's Requirements/Qualifications. "Certification Requirement" could be part of Qualifications. "Preferred Qualifications" - also Qualifications. "Key Metrics Of Success For The Team" - maybe a separate section or part of About the role? Could be "Success Metrics". "Additional Information" includes clearance and citizenship - could be part of Requirements or a separate "Clearance & Citizenship" section. "Critical Solutions Pay And Benefits" includes Pay and Benefits. The user says: include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it. So we have: - About the role? The posting doesn't have an explicit "About the role" section, but there is a description at the top: "Work alongside the development and operations teams to ensure speedy and reliable software deployments..." That's part of Responsibilities? Actually the first paragraph under "Primary Roles And Responsibilities" is a prose description. Then bullet points. I'll include an "About the role" section with that prose. - Responsibilities: the bullet points under Primary Roles And Responsibilities. - Requirements: Basic Qualifications (list). Also Certification Requirement (IAT Level II) could be part of Requirements. - Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications (list). Could combine with Requirements? The user says use headings like Requirements, Qualifications. I'll separate: Requirements for basic, Qualifications for preferred. - Skills? Not explicitly a skills section, but many skills listed in qualifications. Could be part of Requirements/Qualifications. - Benefits: Benefit Snapshot list. - Pay: Salary range given. - Schedule: Type: Full-time, On-site. Location: Norfolk, VA, Pearl Harbor, HI. Could be a Schedule/Location section. - Clearance: Secret clearance required, US citizenship. Could be a "Clearance" section. The user says: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. The posting does state Pay (salary range), Benefits (benefit snapshot), Schedule (full-time, on-site, locations). So include them. Also, the user says: fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Job ID/requisition numbers not present. The "Critical Solutions Pay And Benefits" seems like a company name? Might be boilerplate. But salary range and benefits are substantive. I'll structure as:
About the role
Work alongside the development and operations teams to ensure speedy and reliable software deployments, monitor systems, and improve overall reliability of the platform. In addition, as you discover and document system bugs, you have the motivation to go off and fix them yourself.
Responsibilities
- Develop features utilize the AI coding tool and repository of scripts to automate, scale, test, and secure the cloud infrastructure and the pipelines.
- Enhance performance monitoring of the various systems via Splunk or other dashboard reporting tools
- Identify performance bottlenecks and optimize the performance of cloud infrastructure
- Contribute to continuing our SRE journey by suggesting ways to improve engineering build, maintenance, automation and reliability across the platform with SRE/DevOps tools and Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Develop and code high-quality pipeline automation workflows to support inside and outside the cloud platform that are appropriate for business and technology strategies.
- Develop and execute test strategies that simulate real-world failure scenarios, including network disruptions, hardware failures, and system overloads.
- Create, script, and run performance tests to measure system behavior under varying levels of load and traffic. Identify bottlenecks, performance degradation, and areas for optimization.
- Design, implement, and maintain automated test suites for infrastructure and application components. Ensure that testing is integrated into the CI/CD pipeline to validate system reliability with every release.
- Build automated systems for continuous performance testing, stress testing, and load testing.
- Work closely with SREs, developers, and operations teams to define reliability goals and develop appropriate testing strategies to validate those goals.
- Ensure that new services and features undergo thorough testing for performance, reliability, and failure recovery before deployment to production.
- Validate that monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms are functioning correctly by testing systems under failure conditions.
- Ensure that Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) are accurately measured and tracked through automated testing frameworks.
- Resolve most conflicts between timeline, budget, and scope independently but intuitively raise sophisticated or consequential issues to senior management
Requirements
- BS degree with prior relevant experience
- Currently possess and ability to maintain an active DoD Secret security clearance
- Minimum of DoD 8570.01 IAT Level II Certification required prior to onboarding and must maintain certification
- Must be able to support program execution in classified environments and access SIPRNet from an NMCI location on short notice (local travel).
- Experience with automated script design, coding, debugging, and maintenance skills (using bash, python, etc.) preferred
- Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM) environments at enterprise scale.
- Proven ability to optimize MECM infrastructure for performance, reliability, and high availability.
- Hands-on experience creating and managing MECM device collections, task sequences, applications, packages, and operating system deployment images.
- Expertise in automating MECM administrative tasks using PowerShell, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Strong background in Windows endpoint management, including patching strategies, compliance baselines, configuration items, and reporting.
- Demonstrated ability to improve endpoint reliability through monitoring, observability tooling, and proactive remediation.
- Experience integrating MECM with cloud-based services such as Intune, Azure AD, and Windows Update for Business.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex MECM client and server issues using logs, diagnostics, and platform health data.
- Experience supporting enterprise-wide operating system deployments and in-place upgrades using MECM automation pipelines.
- Knowledge of SQL Server administration relevant to maintaining MECM databases and enabling performance tuning.
- Experience contributing to system reliability through continuous improvement, infrastructure monitoring, and configuration drift reduction.
- Strong understanding of networking concepts supporting MECM components such as DP distribution, boundary groups, and PXE services
- Ability to work in a highly collaborative, forward thinking, and innovation-driven environment
- Knowledge of Agile and DevSecOps/SRE concepts and best practices, with a desire to grow that knowledge
- Hand-on experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.).
- Experience creating JIRA and/or Azure DevOps workflows, projects, custom configurations
- Experience administrating/maintaining SRE platform via Ansible playbooks (e.g. upgrading Jenkins)
- Experience in automating tasks with scripting languages like PowerShell, or Python
- Integrating/maintaining with various 3rd party CI/CD tools like Jenkins and Gitlab.
- Experience with commercial cloud infrastructure deployment environments such as AWS and Azure.
- Experience with automated provisioning and configuration tools like Terraform, Cloud Formation, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or similar technologies.
- Working knowledge of the Risk Management Framework (RMF), DISA STIGs
Qualifications
- Previous work experience providing support to the NGEN-NMCI program
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation for automating test environments.
- ITILv4, Scrum Master, or Agile SAFe certification(s) or applicable experience
Success metrics
- Improved system reliability, as measured by adherence to Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and reduced Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).
- Comprehensive and regularly updated automated test coverage for all critical systems and infrastructure components.
- Timely identification and resolution of performance bottlenecks and failure points.
- Integration of automated testing into the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring continuous reliability validation.
- Increased scalability and performance of systems under high load due to effective performance testing.
Clearance & citizenship
Must possess an active DoD Secret Clearance. Selected candidate must undergo background investigation (BI) and fingerprinting by the federal agency and successfully pass to qualify for the position. US citizenship is required.
Location & schedule
Full-time, on-site. Primary location: Norfolk, VA. Other acceptable work location: Pearl Harbor, HI.
Pay
Salary range: $87,000 - $112,000. The salary range for this position represents the typical salary range for this job level and does not guarantee a specific salary. Compensation is based upon multiple factors such as responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, certifications, and other requirements.
Benefits
- 100% premium coverage for Medical, Dental, Vision,