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Critical Solutions•Norfolk, VA

1d•$87,000 - $112,000•Onsite

About The Position

Critical Solutions is seeking a Systems Engineer – DevSecOps/SRE to support our federal customer. The SRE will develop and execute tests focused on system resilience, performance under load, and failure scenarios. They will work in tandem with other Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and development teams to create automated testing frameworks that simulate real-world conditions that validate system behavior under normal and stress conditions, ensuring our services are resilient and meet established service level objectives (SLOs). Your work will contribute to the development of robust and scalable services that operate reliably in production. Your responsibilities will include maintaining complex computer systems by writing code to automate software releases, monitor systems, and detect and fix problems before users even know there is an issue. You will use these skills to improve site performance and overall reliability. The SRE-IDAM role is responsible for supporting, migrating, automation and optimization of software development and deployment process, infrastructure as code, and contribute to the overall maturity of the Site Reliability Engineering program as well as supporting the creation, maintenance, update, modernization, and refresh the capabilities and components of the organization's Enterprise Network. The SRE-IDAM resource provides technical leadership and knowledge of related tasks and coordinates with project managers, customers, stakeholders, and engineers to support ongoing activities as well as new projects to maintain, transform, and modernize the organization's Enterprise Network.

Requirements

Must be a U.S. citizen and possess an active DoD Secret Security Clearance or higher.
BS degree with 7+ years of general experience and 2-4 years of prior relevant experience or Master's with less than 2 years of relevant experience.
Minimum of DoD 8570.01 IAT Level II Certification and must maintain certification while supporting the program
Must be able to support program execution in classified environments and access SIPRNet and therefore will be 100% on-site.
Familiarity designing, configuring, and managing Active Directory, Group Policy Objects, DNS, DHCP, WINS.
Experience with Windows Server 2016 / 2019 / 2022 / 2025
Experience with SQL Server 2019 / 2022 / 2025
Experience with automated script design, coding, debugging, and maintenance skills (using bash, python, etc.) preferred
Experience in CI/CD toolsets (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)
Good command of Linux/Unix and command line knowledge
Experience in application administration, configuration, and integration
Familiarity with agile development methodologies
Skilled and disciplined to work with a distributed team
Ability to work in a highly collaborative, forward thinking, and innovation-driven environment
Knowledge of Agile and DevSecOps/SRE concepts and best practices, with a desire to grow that knowledge
Hand-on experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.).
Experience creating JIRA and/or Azure DevOps workflows, projects, custom configurations
Experience administrating/maintaining SRE platform via Ansible playbooks (e.g. upgrading Jenkins)
Experience in automating tasks with scripting languages like PowerShell, or Python
Integrating/maintaining with various 3rd party CI/CD tools like Jenkins and Gitlab.
Experience with PaaS using Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes and Docker containers
Experience with commercial cloud infrastructure deployment environments such as AWS and Azure.
Experience with automated provisioning and configuration tools like Terraform, Cloud Formation, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or similar technologies.
Working knowledge of the Risk Management Framework (RMF), DISA STIGs
Must be willing to work nights, weekends, and provide on-call support as needed
Minimum of DoD 8570.01 IAT Level II Certification and must maintain certification while supporting the program

Nice To Haves

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation for automating test environments.
ITILv4, Scrum Master, or Agile SAFe certification(s) or applicable experience
Familiarity with designing, configuring and managing FIM 2010 R2/MIM 2016 synchronization
Familiarity with VB.NET
Familiarity designing, configuring, and managing Delinea
Familiarity with Microsoft Active Directory Federated Services structure
Familiarity with Cloud Engineering
Familiarity with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificates

Responsibilities

Test, maintain (patching, STIGing, and upgrading), troubleshoot, develop, and deliver solutions associated with Active Directory, Azure, Delinea, Ansible, Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM), Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), DHCP, DNS, WINS, GPOs & PKI.
Work alongside the development and operations teams to ensure speedy and reliable software deployments, monitor systems, and improve overall reliability of the platform. In addition, as you discover and document system bugs, you have the motivation to go off and fix them yourself.
Develop features utilize the AI coding tool and repository of scripts to automate, scale, test, and secure the cloud infrastructure and the pipelines.
Enhance performance monitoring of the various systems via Splunk or other dashboard reporting tools
Identify performance bottlenecks and optimize the performance of cloud infrastructure
Contribute to continuing our SRE journey by suggesting ways to improve engineering build, maintenance, automation and reliability across the platform with SRE/DevOps tools and Infrastructure-as-Code.
Develop and code high-quality pipeline automation workflows to support inside and outside the cloud platform that are appropriate for business and technology strategies.
Develop and execute test strategies that simulate real-world failure scenarios, including network disruptions, hardware failures, and system overloads.
Create, script, and run performance tests to measure system behavior under varying levels of load and traffic. Identify bottlenecks, performance degradation, and areas for optimization.
Design, implement, and maintain automated test suites for infrastructure and application components. Ensure that testing is integrated into the CI/CD pipeline to validate system reliability with every release.
Build automated systems for continuous performance testing, stress testing, and load testing.
Work closely with SREs, developers, and operations teams to define reliability goals and develop appropriate testing strategies to validate those goals.
Ensure that new services and features undergo thorough testing for performance, reliability, and failure recovery before deployment to production.
Validate that monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms are functioning correctly by testing systems under failure conditions.
Ensure that Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) are accurately measured and tracked through automated testing frameworks.
Resolve most conflicts between timeline, budget, and scope independently but intuitively raise sophisticated or consequential issues to senior management.
Must be willing to work nights, weekends, and provide on-call support as needed.