Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Boeing•Berkeley, MO

2d•$160,650 - $217,350•Onsite

About The Position

The Boeing Company is looking for a Senior 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 individual to operate, improve, and sustain mission-critical developer platforms used by Air Dominance engineering teams. This role will provide hands-on technical ownership for GitLab, GitLab CI/CD runners, Jira, Confluence, PostgreSQL, and related software delivery tools such as Artifactory and SonarQube. The selected candidate will drive reliability improvements, automate operational workflows, troubleshoot complex incidents, lead planned maintenance activities, and help establish mature Site Reliability Engineering practices for the team.

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
9+ 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)

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 9+ years of related work experience or Bachelor’s Degree and 13+ years of directly related work experience or 17+ years of related, relevant experience
Experience administering GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, GitLab runners, or comparable enterprise source control and CI/CD platforms
Experience administering Jira, Confluence, or other Atlassian products
Experience administering PostgreSQL, including backup and recovery, replication, query troubleshooting, storage management, and performance tuning
Experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Infrastructure as Code, Ansible, configuration management, container platforms, Docker, Kubernetes, virtualization, or cloud-native services
Experience with Artifactory, SonarQube, Jenkins, or similar software delivery tools
Experience designing or improving monitoring, alerting, dashboards, operational metrics, and SLOs
Experience supporting Air Dominance, classified, air-gapped, or highly regulated engineering environments
Experience with disaster recovery planning, continuity of operations, backup validation, and restore testing
Experience leading technical investigations, post-incident reviews, and corrective action plans
Ability to obtain Security+ certification
Demonstrated ability to balance customer urgency, system reliability, security requirements, and change control
Strong customer focus and ability to work with engineering teams, leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders

Responsibilities

Operate and maintain GitLab, GitLab CI/CD runners, Jira, Confluence, PostgreSQL, and related developer tooling infrastructure
Lead the deployment and configuration of software development technologies, including build servers, version control systems, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing frameworks
Lead administration of cloud-based and on-premises infrastructure using approved Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Linux, virtualization, or container platform capabilities
Serve as a technical owner for platform reliability, availability, performance, capacity, backup, recovery, and operational readiness
Lead troubleshooting for complex application, database, runner, pipeline infrastructure, network, storage, and performance issues
Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Ansible, and other automation for provisioning, configuration, platform scaling, health checks, reporting, backup validation, and routine operational tasks
Plan and execute approved changes, including application upgrades, security patches, database maintenance, runner lifecycle activities, and infrastructure updates
Establish and improve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, KPIs, error budgets, and operational metrics
Lead software development tool administration, maintenance, version upgrades, patch management, and integration between tools such as Jira, GitLab, Artifactory, Confluence, and SonarQube
Define, collect, analyze, and refine software delivery and platform reliability metrics to support data-driven decision making
Support incident response, root cause analysis, corrective action tracking, and post-incident reviews
Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance on SRE practices, secure administration, automation, and troubleshooting
Partner with developers, project administrators, cybersecurity personnel, infrastructure teams, database administrators, and program stakeholders
Improve runbooks, standard operating procedures, architecture documentation, and disaster recovery procedures
Evaluate platform risks, capacity trends, recurring incidents, and operational toil, then recommend and implement improvements
Lead demonstrations, monitor progress, and present technical status to customers and management
Lead process improvement efforts that help operationally field higher-quality end-to-end system software more frequently
Participate in after-hours support for urgent or mission-impacting issues as required