Site Reliability Engineer

Fortress Information Security • Washington, DC

21h • $160,000 - $180,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of critical systems and services. This role focuses on transitioning applications from traditional Ansible deployments to containerized, orchestrated setups across AWS and on-premises environments. This role enhances CI/CD capabilities, supporting advanced deployment strategies like Blue/Green and Canary releases. By building flexible testing environments, the engineer supports Development, QA, and UAT efforts throughout the release lifecycle.

Requirements

• 4-5 years hands-on experience in a SRE/DevOps role supporting production systems
• Production experience supporting Linux-based infrastructure and administering services on AWS (RDS, VPC, ECR, CloudWatch, Cloud Formation, Lambda, API Gateway) and on-premises
• Demonstrable experience with deployment technologies such as Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins and Terraform (or similar technologies)
• Excellent documentation skills so anyone on the team can come up-to-speed on changes quickly
• Experience implementing rolling upgrades (canary, blue/green, etc.)
• Strong scripting and tooling skillset (Bash, Python, JS, etc.)
• Self-motivated, resourceful and a persistent problem-solving aptitude with advanced time management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to independently use and refine prompts to enhance the quality, efficiency, and insight of regular work processes
• Active clearance preferred; ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance (required)
• Willingness and ability to work onsite in Patuxent River, Maryland up to 20% of the time (required)
• Must be willing to participate in technical interviews and technical questions, which may be recorded or transcribed for evaluation purposes (required)

Nice To Haves

• Presentation skills and the ability to communicate with a variety of technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong scripting and tooling skillset (Bash, Python, JS, etc.).
• Strong Linux administration skills
• AWS administration skills
• Strong documentation and organizational skills
• Self-motivated, resourceful and a persistent problem-solving aptitude

Responsibilities

• Transition applications from traditional (non-containerized) Ansible deployments to containerized, orchestrated deployments in AWS and on-premises environments
• Build upon current CI/CD efforts to support different deployment strategies (Blue/Green, Canary, etc.)
• Support Development/QA/UAT efforts by building an environment for anyone in the company to test drive a release anywhere in the development lifecycle
• Improve upon common infrastructure for developers, such as CI/CD pipelines, log/application monitoring, cluster management, and configuration management
• Migrate application secrets and configuration from Ansible Vault to Hashicorp Vault
• Automate infrastructure provisioning during deployment
• Handle code deployments in all environments (cloud, on-premises)
• Implement tools to monitor and alert with respect to service level metrics and objectives
• Provide technical guidance and educate team members and coworkers on development and operations
• Monitor relevant systems for availability and performance
• Available to support daytime and after business hours release activities

Benefits

• Remote and Hybrid working environment
• Competitive pay structure
• Medical, dental, vision plans with employees covered up to 90% with highly progressive options for dependents and families
• Company paid life, short- and long-term disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• 401(k) match
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Parental Leave
• Tuition and certification reimbursement
• Employee Referral Programs
• Company Sponsored Events

What This Job Offers

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