Site Reliability Engineer, Lead

Booz Allen Hamilton•Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

1d•$99,000 - $225,000•Onsite

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 system resilience and reduce operational risk. You will drive root cause analysis, capacity planning, reliability standards, and continuous improvement initiatives to support highly available, efficient, and scalable services. You will build and support reliable systems and platforms, work with development and operations teams to evaluate system health, stability, and reliability, and design and develop technical tools to debug application deployment problems.

Requirements

8+ years of experience with monitoring, logging, and observability platforms such as Splunk, 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.
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 another 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 reliable systems and platforms to meet development and maintenance requirements.
Work with development and operations teams to evaluate system and platform health, stability, and reliability.
Design and develop technical tools to debug problems that occur during application deployment.