Site Reliability Engineer, Lead

Booz Allen Hamilton•Chantilly, VA

18h•Onsite

About The Position

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) on our team, you’ll be responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, scalability, and security of critical production systems and platforms. This role leads the design and implementation of observability, automation, incident response, and operational best practices across cloud and air-gapped environments, while partnering closely with Dev Ops, infrastructure, and security teams to improve system resilience and reduce operational risk. The Lead SRE also drives root cause analysis, capacity planning, reliability standards, and continuous improvement initiatives to support highly available, efficient, and scalable services. This is your chance to further your skills in cloud infrastructure and technologies while continuing to grow your SRE experience. You'll build and support a reliable site for the environment in order to meet the development and maintenance requirements of systems and platforms. Work with the development and operation teams to evaluate the health, stability and reliability of systems and platforms. Design and develop technical tools to debug problems that occur in the deployment of applications, within specific platforms and systems. Join our efforts to strengthen our security posture and safeguard national interests. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

8+ years of experience with monitoring, logging, and observability platforms, such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack
8+ years of experience with Linux systems administration and networking fundamentals within AWS
Experience with Python scripting and automation
Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Terragrunt
Knowledge of Kubernetes administration, troubleshooting, and operations.
TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps Engineering, or Platform Engineering, or 12+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps Engineering, or Platform Engineering in lieu of a degree
Ability to obtain a Security+ CE, SSCP, CCNA-Security, or GSEC Certification within 6 months of start date

Nice To Haves

Experience with deploying and managing OpenTelemetry.
Experience with AWS CloudWatch, AWS EKS, and related AWS services
Experience managing Kubernetes environments through Rancher
Experience implementing SRE practices such as SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and incident management
Experience with Jenkins, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Nessus, JIRA, and Confluence
Knowledge of distributed systems, microservices architectures, and containerized workloads
Knowledge of NIST 800-53 and NIST-190
Master’s degree in a relevant field
Security+ CE, SSCP, CCNA-Security, or GSEC Certification

Responsibilities

Ensuring the reliability, performance, scalability, and security of critical production systems and platforms.
Leading the design and implementation of observability, automation, incident response, and operational best practices across cloud and air-gapped environments.
Partnering closely with Dev Ops, infrastructure, and security teams to improve system resilience and reduce operational risk.
Driving root cause analysis, capacity planning, reliability standards, and continuous improvement initiatives to support highly available, efficient, and scalable services.
Building and supporting a reliable site for the environment to meet development and maintenance requirements of systems and platforms.
Working with development and operation teams to evaluate the health, stability, and reliability of systems and platforms.
Designing and developing technical tools to debug problems that occur in the deployment of applications, within specific platforms and systems.
Strengthening security posture and safeguarding national interests.