Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Boeing•Berkeley, MO

1d•$198,050 - $267,950•Onsite

About The Position

The Boeing Company is looking for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to join the Air Dominance Site Reliability Engineering team located in Berkeley, MO. We are seeking a highly talented, motivated, and creative technical leader responsible for the reliability strategy, architecture, operational maturity, and long-term technical direction of mission-critical developer platforms used by Air Dominance engineering teams. This role will provide technical leadership across GitLab, GitLab CI/CD runners, Jira, Confluence, PostgreSQL, related software delivery tools such as Artifactory and SonarQube, and the supporting infrastructure, automation, monitoring, backup, recovery, and security controls required to operate these services. The selected candidate will define standards, guide architecture decisions, mentor engineers, lead complex technical investigations, and partner with program leadership and stakeholders to ensure developer tooling remains secure, reliable, scalable, and supportable.

Requirements

Active Secret U.S. Security Clearance. (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active.)
Ability to obtain access to Special Access Programs (SAP)
Bachelor's Degree
14+ years of experience with DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, software engineering, and/or cloud engineering
Experience with GitLab, Azure DevOps and CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
Experience with technical leadership
Experience with designing and implementing scalable computing infrastructure for data solutions, including cloud architectures (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
5 years of experience conducting root cause analysis of design failures
U.S. Citizenship Required

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science and 14+ years of related work experience or Bachelor’s Degree and 18+ years of directly related work experience or 22+ years of related, relevant experience
Experience communicating technical strategy, risk, tradeoffs, and recommendations to senior technical and program leadership
Deep experience administering or architecting GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, GitLab runners, or comparable enterprise source control and CI/CD platforms
Deep experience administering or architecting Jira, Confluence, or other Atlassian products in an enterprise environment
Deep experience with PostgreSQL architecture and operations, including backup and recovery, replication, performance tuning, storage planning, maintenance, and high-availability patterns
Experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Infrastructure as Code, Ansible, configuration management, containers, Docker, Kubernetes, virtualization, artifact management, secrets management, and secure software delivery practices
Experience administering or architecting Artifactory, SonarQube, Jenkins, or similar software delivery tools
Experience designing observability platforms, alerting strategies, SLO frameworks, service health dashboards, and operational reporting
Experience supporting Air Dominance, classified, air-gapped, or highly regulated engineering environments
Experience developing disaster recovery strategy, continuity of operations plans, recovery time objectives, recovery point objectives, and restore validation programs
Experience guiding cybersecurity hardening, vulnerability remediation, audit readiness, privileged access controls, and compliance-driven operations
Ability to obtain Security+ certification
Demonstrated ability to lead through influence across engineering teams, customers, suppliers, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and program stakeholders
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to produce architecture documentation, executive briefings, technical roadmaps, and decision records

Responsibilities

Define and lead the Site Reliability Engineering technical strategy for GitLab, CI/CD runners, Jira, Confluence, PostgreSQL, Artifactory, SonarQube, and related developer tooling infrastructure
Establish platform reliability architecture, operational standards, SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, KPIs, error budgets, observability patterns, capacity models, backup strategies, and disaster recovery approaches
Serve as the senior technical authority for complex reliability, performance, scalability, integration, database, automation, and security-related platform decisions
Lead architecture and design reviews for developer tooling infrastructure, CI/CD runner topology, PostgreSQL operations, cloud-based and on-premises infrastructure, monitoring, alerting, access controls, and platform integrations
Drive automation, Infrastructure as Code, Ansible, configuration management, and repeatable operational patterns that reduce toil and improve reliability
Guide major upgrades, migrations, lifecycle planning, patch strategies, recovery planning, and technical roadmaps for supported platforms
Lead the most complex incidents and technical investigations, including root cause analysis, corrective action planning, and systemic reliability improvements
Mentor and technically guide SREs in operational excellence, troubleshooting, automation, secure administration, and architectural thinking
Partner with program leadership, cybersecurity, infrastructure, software engineering, database, networking, suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders
Identify platform risks, technical debt, capacity constraints, single points of failure, compliance concerns, and operational gaps, then drive remediation plans
Define, collect, analyze, and refine software delivery and platform reliability metrics for team execution, management visibility, and continuous improvement
Lead standards for provisioning, platform scaling, configuration management, monitoring, troubleshooting, and software delivery tool integration
Develop and maintain architecture documentation, design patterns, standards, operational readiness criteria, and executive technical briefings
Influence support models, maintenance strategies, escalation paths, and investment priorities based on mission impact and operational risk
Lead efforts to operationally field higher-quality end-to-end system software more frequently
Participate in after-hours support and escalation for urgent or mission-impacting issues as required