Cloud / SRE Engineer

Noblis • Atlantic City, NJ

23h

About The Position

Noblis is seeking an experienced Cloud / SRE Engineer to support the FAA’s System-Wide Information Management (SWIM) Flight Data Publication Service (SFDPS) program as part of the NextGen transformation strategy. The role leads reliability, performance, and operations work streams, defines reliability improvement plans, implements Site Reliability Engineering practices, and architects cloud-native solutions to meet FAA Efficiency Critical requirements during migration.

The engineer will establish SRE practices and operational measures, improve the performance and availability of containerized services, design resilient architectures in the FAA cloud, and drive safety- and compliance-focused deployments. The role also includes coordinating security controls with Authorizing Officials and security subject-matter experts, leading incident response and postmortems, providing architectural guidance, mentoring engineers, and representing the engineering team to stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree and 9 years of relevant professional experience; alternatively, an associate degree and 11 years of relevant professional experience, or a master's degree and 6 years of total relevant experience. Substitutions are subject to further customer review and approval.
• Strong engineering background in systems reliability, cloud operations, and container platforms.
• Hands-on experience developing and maintaining Java-based applications, including debugging, optimization, and refactoring.
• Proficiency in a language suited for high-throughput systems, such as Java, Go, Python, or .NET for backend development.
• Deep experience with Red Hat/OpenShift, Kubernetes architecture, and container security best practices.
• Proven SRE experience defining SLIs/SLOs, implementing monitoring and alerting, and managing incidents.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code and automation experience, including Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Practical experience working with C and/or C++ components, particularly integration with Java or containerization scenarios.
• Proficient scripting ability in Python, Bash, or similar for automating build, deployment, and cloud operations workflows.
• Proven experience with at least one major message broker, such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Solace, or NATS.
• Experience with data serialization formats, specifically JSON, XML, Avro, or Protobuf.
• Knowledge of messaging protocols such as AMQP, MQTT, JMS, or STOMP.
• Understanding of asynchronous messaging patterns, pub-sub, and point-to-point queues.
• Strong communication, leadership, and cross-team coordination skills; Agile experience (Scrum or SAFe) and prior experience as a technical lead or site reliability lead.
• U.S. citizen or Green Card Permanent Resident with at least 3 of the last 5 years of U.S. residency.
• Ability to obtain and maintain FAA Suitability.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience in a FedRAMP/Government cloud environment and with federal security/compliance controls.
• Certifications such as CKA, RHCE, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (GovCloud), CISSP, or similar.
• Prior FAA or air traffic management (ATM) systems experience.
• Experience with cloud-based messaging services such as AWS SNS/SQS, Azure Service Bus, or Google Pub/Sub.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement the SRE program for SFDPS, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and runbooks aligned with FAA Efficiency Critical objectives.
• Lead performance tuning, capacity planning, and high-availability design across containerized services.
• Design resilient architectures in the FAA cloud, including multi-AZ, autoscaling, and disaster recovery patterns.
• Drive CI/CD for safety- and compliance-focused deployments.
• Define security controls and coordinate with Authorizing Officials and security SMEs to meet FedRAMP/FISMA and FAA baselines, including hardening, secrets management, and vulnerability scanning.
• Lead major incidents and postmortems, and ensure permanent corrective actions improve availability and maintainability.
• Provide architectural guidance, mentor mid- and junior-level engineers, and represent the engineering team to stakeholders.

Benefits

• Health, life, and disability benefits.
• Financial and retirement benefits.
• Paid leave.
• Professional development.
• Tuition assistance.
• Work-life programs.
• Awards recognizing exceptional performance and demonstration of service standards.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior