Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Boeing • Berkeley, MO

8d • $198,050 - $267,950 • Onsite

About The Position

The Boeing Company is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer for the Air Dominance Site Reliability Engineering team in Berkeley, Missouri. The role provides technical leadership for the reliability strategy, architecture, operational maturity, and long-term direction of mission-critical developer platforms used by Air Dominance engineering teams.

The position covers GitLab and GitLab CI/CD runners, Jira, Confluence, PostgreSQL, Artifactory, SonarQube, and supporting infrastructure and controls for automation, monitoring, backup, recovery, and security. The successful candidate will define standards, guide architecture decisions, mentor engineers, lead complex technical investigations, and partner with program leadership and stakeholders to keep developer tooling secure, reliable, and scalable. The role includes 10% travel and participation in after-hours support and escalation for urgent or mission-impacting issues as required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance; U.S. citizenship is required for the clearance.
• Ability to obtain access to Special Access Programs (SAP).
• At least 8 years of experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or Bamboo.
• At least 8 years of enterprise architecture experience, including cloud architecture, security, data privacy, integration, and deployment.
• At least 5 years of experience in root cause analysis and corrective action.
• At least 5 years of technical leadership and team leadership.
• Active U.S. Secret Security Clearance is required; a clearance active within the past 24 months is considered active.
• Must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements as a U.S. Person.
• Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.
• Complete the required technical assessment as part of the selection process.
• Satisfy the Company's Conflict of Interest assessment process.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor of Science degree in engineering, engineering technology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science and 14+ years of related work experience; or a 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.
• Extensive 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, including 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 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 decisions.
• Lead architecture and design reviews for developer tooling infrastructure, CI/CD runner topology, PostgreSQL operations, cloud and on-premises infrastructure, monitoring, alerting, access controls, and platform integrations.
• Drive automation, Infrastructure as Code, Ansible, configuration management, and repeatable operational patterns to reduce toil and improve reliability.
• Guide major upgrades, migrations, lifecycle planning, patch strategies, recovery planning, and technical roadmaps for supported platforms.
• Lead 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, and drive remediation plans.
• 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.

Benefits

• Eligible employees may enroll in health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and programs providing paid and unpaid time away from work.
• Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
• Potential signing bonus for eligible and qualified external candidates.
• Relocation based on candidate eligibility.

What This Job Offers

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