Site Reliability Engineer with Security Clearance

About the role

The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) collaboratively works closely with the contract leadership, Platform teams, and Sponsor to refine the operational and technical strategy to automate key portions of IT operations and enable the Product team (Platform) to bring new software or new features to production as quickly as possible. The SRE executes and analyzes manual IT operations/admin tasks (log analysis, performance tuning, patch management, testing, and incident response) and converts them to automated tasks. The SRE works with the Platform, Network and Data Operations teams to assist in deployment planning and onboard systems. They assist with monitoring, system analysis, and IT operations support.

Responsibilities

• Work with Sponsor, Mission partners, and technical personnel to deliver robust scalable operations architecture that meets the customer goals for the enterprise.
• Analyze, define, and document requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, hardware and operating system environment, and network connectivity, other system interfaces, internal and external checks and controls, and outputs.
• Maintain and monitor the system/network, providing context for identifying root causes in the event of an incident, performance degradation, or availability issue.
• Perform Network/Cloud optimization and resilience planning.
• Develop capabilities to automate hardware/software provisioning, monitoring, patching, and troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with and assist Platform team and leadership in network and security health, intrusions or inappropriate activities.
• Optimize business processes, workflows, and service operations by building efficient on-call processes and streamlining alerting workflows.
• Leverage operational data to automate systems administration, operations and incident response processes to improve enterprise reliability to manage IT environment complexity.
• Works with LSA, Lab Manager, and CM to compose technical documents including Design, Deployment, System specifications and Host Nation baselines, updates, user's manuals, training materials, installation guides, proposals, and reports.
• Work with the OM to implement ITSM best practices for ICA/Service discrepancy and reporting, issue resolution and operations support to include Tier 2/3 escalation.

Requirements

• Programming: Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Java, or JavaScript) is essential for automating tasks and developing tools.
• Linux/Unix Systems Administration: Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix operating systems, including command-line tools and system administration tasks.
• Networking: Understanding of network protocols, infrastructure, and troubleshooting techniques.
• Database Management: Familiarity with database technologies and principles.
• Automation: Experience with automation tools and techniques, such as configuration management (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef) and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Monitoring and Logging: Experience with monitoring tools and logging systems.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to diagnose and resolve system issues.
• Communication: Ability to communicate technical information clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaboration: Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including software developers and operations personnel.

Qualifications

• Security Clearance: TS/SCI Poly

Skills

• Cloud Technologies: Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).
• Containerization: Knowledge of containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• DevOps Principles: Understanding DevOps principles and practices.
• Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs): Experience with defining, tracking, and managing SLOs and SLAs.
• Data Analysis: Experience with data analysis and visualization tools.

Benefits

• Global Skill Development Council (GSDC) Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation Certification (CSREF).
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate.
• Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect.
• Azure Certified Solutions Architect Expert.

Pay

ESTIMATED: $123,720 per year

Schedule

Not specified