SRE Engineer
Spatial Front, Inc · Arlington, VA · 1 wk ago
EngineeringFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Define, implement, and maintain site reliability engineering practices for mission-critical applications and shared services, with emphasis on uptime, resiliency, recoverability, and operational excellence.
- Establish and manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets for critical services and environments.
- Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions for production systems.
- Support production and pre-production operations across development, test, training, staging, and production environments.
- Lead incident response activities, conducting root cause analysis and implementing permanent fixes.
- Create and maintain runbooks, standard operating procedures, incident playbooks, operational dashboards, and knowledge articles.
- Support high availability, disaster recovery, backup/restore validation, and business continuity activities.
- Develop and implement automation to reduce manual operational toil and improve system reliability.
- Contribute to post-deployment validation, smoke testing, rollback readiness, and environment health checks during releases and maintenance windows.
- Collaborate with teams supporting Oracle/PeopleSoft platforms, integration services, reporting services, and shared enterprise tooling to improve reliability end to end.
- Collaborate with development teams to improve system reliability through design reviews and reliability engineering practices.
- Perform capacity planning and performance optimization for production systems.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 5 years of software engineering, 3 years site reliability engineering, production support engineering, or platform reliability for enterprise systems, 1 year Unix/Solaris experience.
- Experience supporting enterprise applications in a high-availability, security-conscious, and compliance-driven environment.
- Experience creating operational documentation, runbooks, and incident response procedures.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across application, middleware, integration, and infrastructure layers.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to work across engineering, security, testing, and program stakeholders.
- Demonstrated expertise in: Site reliability engineering, monitoring, automation, incident response, performance optimization; experienced with UNIX/Solaris.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen.
- Must possess an active Secret security clearance or be able to obtain one.