Site Reliability Engineer, Lead
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. The role drives 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 the development and maintenance requirements of systems and platforms. You will work with development and operations teams to evaluate system health, stability, and reliability, and design and develop technical tools to debug application deployment problems across specific platforms and systems.
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 those fields in lieu of a degree.
- Ability to obtain a Security+ CE, SSCP, CCNA-Security, or GSEC certification within 6 months of the start date.
Nice To Haves
- Experience 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
- 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 sites and environments to meet system and platform 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.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave.
- Professional development.
- Tuition assistance.
- Work-life programs.
- Dependent care.
- Recognition awards program.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
