Site Reliability Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton•Riverside, OH

19d•$99,000 - $225,000

About The Position

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will ensure the reliability, performance, scalability, and security of critical production systems and platforms. You will lead the design and implementation of observability, automation, incident response, and operational best practices across cloud and air-gapped environments, partnering with DevOps, infrastructure, and security teams to improve resilience and reduce operational risk. You will drive root cause analysis, capacity planning, reliability standards, and continuous improvement to support highly available, efficient, and scalable services. You will build and support reliable sites and environments that meet system and platform development and maintenance requirements. Working with development and operations teams, you will evaluate system and platform health, stability, and reliability, and design and develop technical tools to debug application deployment issues within specific platforms and systems. The role contributes to efforts to strengthen security and safeguard national interests.

Requirements

8+ years of experience with monitoring, logging, and observability platforms such as Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, or 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 or Terragrunt.
Knowledge of Kubernetes administration, troubleshooting, and operations.
TS/SCI clearance.
High school diploma or GED.
CompTIA Security+ certification.

Nice To Haves

Experience with cybersecurity concepts, including threats, vulnerabilities, security operations, patching, boundary defense, auditing, or authentication.
Experience with RHEL administration.
Knowledge of NIST 800-53.
Bachelor's degree in IT, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related field.
SSCP, CCNA-Security, or GSEC certification.

Responsibilities

Ensure the reliability, performance, scalability, and security of critical production systems and platforms.
Lead the design and implementation of observability, automation, incident response, and operational best practices across cloud and air-gapped environments.
Partner with DevOps, infrastructure, and security teams to improve system resilience and reduce operational risk.
Drive root cause analysis, capacity planning, reliability standards, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Build and support a reliable site and environment to meet systems and platforms development and maintenance requirements.
Work with development and operations teams to evaluate the health, stability, and reliability of systems and platforms.
Design and develop technical tools to debug application deployment problems within specific platforms and systems.