Site Reliability Engineer & Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

Mile 2 is looking to hire for multiple Site Reliability Engineer and Senior Site Reliability Engineer positions to join our team!

We maintain a hybrid workforce. Employees can work from home, but office attendance is required when needed to support our customers or collaborate with our teams.

About the Role

Join our innovative team at Mile 2! We solve tough problems and build cool tech, creating advanced solutions that make a difference for our government partners. Our core values guide everything we do:

• Supported Autonomy: Trust initiative and decision-making, backed by Mile 2.
• Humble Expertise: Respect everyone's knowledge, fostering a collaborative environment.
• Success is a Team Effort: Achieve greatness through teamwork.
• Tangible Results: Motivated by creating real, measurable impacts.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Network Infrastructure: Architect and maintain secure GCP networking infrastructure, including VPCs, firewalls, and Interconnects, following zero-trust principles.
• Automation: Drive the deployment and lifecycle of all network components using Terraform and GitOps workflows, ensuring consistency and auditability.
• Security: Implement Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP), Workload Identity, and VPC Service Controls to ensure a compliant, secure environment.
• Automation Logic: Build logic-heavy automation for user onboarding, repository management, and system monitoring using Python or Go.
• Infrastructure Management: Manage and harden self-hosted GitLab infrastructure using IaC, ensuring high availability and robust disaster recovery.
• Compliance: Harden foundational components against threats and integrate "Compliance-as-Code" to support Authority to Operate (ATO) requirements.
• SDLC Engagement: Engage in the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), including Merge Requests (MRs), code reviews, and automated infrastructure testing.

Required Qualifications

• Certifications: Eligible to obtain or hold an active U.S. Security Clearance, must have an active CAC at a minimum, Bachelors degree or equivalent years of experience.
• Experience: Deep, hands-on experience specifically within Google Cloud Platform, proven experience writing, testing, and managing modular Terraform at scale, strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system architecture to predict and prevent system failures.
• Languages: Beyond basic scripting, must be comfortable in a high-level language like Python or Go.

Desired Qualifications

• Advanced Certifications: Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer, Professional Cloud Architect, or HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate, Security+ Certification, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or similar.
• Experience: Experience with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and container hardening, familiarity with the DoD RMF framework or building systems within an ATO (Authority to Operate) boundary, ability to handle high-privilege access (Owner/Editor).

Pay and Schedule

Competitive benefits and opportunities for advancement are offered. Mile 2 maintains a hybrid workforce, allowing employees to work from home and attend the office when needed to support our customers or collaborate with our teams.

Benefits

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Application Process

Please answer our screener questions honestly and thoroughly. Thoughtful responses play an important role in our selection process.