Site Reliability Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton•Arlington, VA

8d•Remote

About The Position

At Booz Allen, our Global Defense Sector (GDS) supports the Department of War (DoW) in delivering resilient, mission-critical digital capabilities. We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to help ensure that essential platforms and services remain secure, available, and high-performing in complex defense environments. As an SRE, you will blend software engineering and operations to improve system reliability, automate infrastructure, and reduce operational risk. You will partner with platform engineers, developers, cybersecurity teams, and mission stakeholders to build scalable systems, strengthen observability, and drive continuous improvement across the service lifecycle. Your work will directly enable warfighters and mission leaders to access trusted capabilities when and where they are needed most. Join us to build and sustain infrastructure that supports national security at global scale. Join us. The world can't wait.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in an SRE, DevOps, or production engineering role with direct ownership of production reliability and uptime
Experience with AWS production across EC2-based, containerized, and serverless workloads
Experience with container orchestration in production, such as Kubernetes, EKS, or ECS, including deployment, scaling, and troubleshooting
Experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform or CloudFormation, for provisioning and managing cloud resources and building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins
Experience with observability and monitoring with tools, such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, and CloudWatch, including building dashboards and alerting
Experience in at least one scripting or programming language, such as Python, Go, or Bash, for automation and tooling, and Linux and Windows administration and troubleshooting in production environments
Experience with incident response, root cause analysis, and defining SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets
Knowledge of vulnerability scanning and remediation as part of the deployment lifecycle
Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
Bachelor’s degree

Nice To Haves

Experience designing for high availability, multi-AZ/multi-region, and disaster recovery
Experience writing blameless postmortems or after action reports (AAR) deriving root cause, corrective actions and driving reliability improvements across teams so it never happens again
Experience with distributed tracing and OpenTelemetry instrumentation
Experience with configuration management tooling, such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
Experience with cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices
Experience in regulated or compliance-driven environments, such as FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, or SOC 1
AWS certification, such as Solutions Architect, SysOps, or DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

Blend software engineering and operations to improve system reliability, automate infrastructure, and reduce operational risk.
Partner with platform engineers, developers, cybersecurity teams, and mission stakeholders to build scalable systems, strengthen observability, and drive continuous improvement across the service lifecycle.