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Mid Level Career (5+ yrs experience)
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Langley AFB, VA (On-Site/Office)
Site Reliability Engineer II
Langley AFB
Secret Clearance
Job Requirements
The Site Reliability Engineer II implements reliable infrastructure solutions according to the strategic direction of the team. They enable efficient delivery of value to our customers through effective infrastructure and fast pipelines, empowering application developers to deliver at the speed desired for the project. The Site Reliability Engineer II also supports operations of the production environments, including observability and troubleshooting issues (sometimes outside of normal business hours if mandated by the contract).
The Impact You Will Create:
• In this role, you will focus on ensuring the availability, reliability, and performance of our multitenant, microservices application suite. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot issues, automate processes, and build scalable, resilient systems. You will learn the nuances of the entire suite of applications and its infrastructure, which will facilitate your missions of 24/7/365 tier 2/3 outage response, and improving the efficiencies. This role requires an active Secret clearance.
Your Responsibilities
• Monitor system health, define Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and ensure adherence to Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
• Respond promptly to outages, conduct root cause analyses, and implement durable solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to optimize and maintain Kubernetes environments and CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop and refine automation scripts to enhance system reliability, including automated recovery and self-healing capabilities.
• Build and maintain observability frameworks, integrating metrics, logging, and tracing tools for proactive issue identification.
• Contribute to performance tuning and scalability improvements across the application stack.
• Document incident responses and contribute to a knowledge base to foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to provide 24/7/365 support for mission-critical systems.
• Decomposes tasks into discrete objectives to serve the strategic direction of the team.
• Implements infrastructure and pipeline solutions with minimal direction in accordance with the project/organization technical standards.
• Resolves technical issues in software infrastructure like software-defined networks, databases, and compute resources.
• Advises the team on specific implementation options that meet business requirements.
• Designs and automates log collection, storage, and analysis.
• Automates security processes and vulnerability remediation.
• Contributes actively in team Agile processes through discussion and/or preparation.
• Manages the security posture of the system and helps maintain compliance with government regulations.
• Provides feedback to improve the team’s technical procedures.
• Delivers scripts and tooling that interacts with external APIs.
• Collaborates with other engineers and designers to implement features that meet design specifications and deliver business value.
Work Experience
Technical Skills:
• 6 years of experience in site reliability, systems engineering, or DevOps roles.
• Proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java, Bash).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and RESTful API design.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or Datadog). Experience with Elastic will be highly helpful with this position.
• Hands-on experience with incident response, including designing and improving incident management processes.
• Expertise in Observability practices, including metrics, logs, traces, and understanding of distributed tracing tools (e.g., OpenTelemetry).
• Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on building resilient, fault-tolerant systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Strong proficiency with Linux systems (especially RHEL) and scripting in Bash or Python. Skilled in managing infrastructure using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and configuration tools like Chef, Ansible, or Puppet.
• Deep understanding of application, network, and infrastructure security principles. Experience with distributed systems and scalable application architecture.
• Proficient in Git, including common and advanced commands (e.g., branching, merging, rebasing).
• Comfortable integrating with external APIs using REST, JSON, and authentication tokens. Familiarity with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift.
Soft Skills:
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
• Strategic thinking and strong problem-solving under pressure.
• Effective communication and collaboration across cross-functional teams.
• Self-motivated with initiative to drive personal and technical growth.
• Ability to mentor others and influence team practices through expertise and leadership.
Clearance:
• An ACTIVE and MAINTAINED "SECRET" Federal or higher
Other Requirements:
• Must be willing to do shift work to provide 24/7/365 coverage.
• Must be within 45 minutes drive of an IL6 workstation location (e.g., SIPR café, SCIF)
Education:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. Master's degree
• Have to have SEC+ or higher certification or ability to obtain it within six months from hire.
Langley AFB
Secret Clearance
Job Requirements
The Site Reliability Engineer II implements reliable infrastructure solutions according to the strategic direction of the team. They enable efficient delivery of value to our customers through effective infrastructure and fast pipelines, empowering application developers to deliver at the speed desired for the project. The Site Reliability Engineer II also supports operations of the production environments, including observability and troubleshooting issues (sometimes outside of normal business hours if mandated by the contract).
The Impact You Will Create:
• In this role, you will focus on ensuring the availability, reliability, and performance of our multitenant, microservices application suite. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot issues, automate processes, and build scalable, resilient systems. You will learn the nuances of the entire suite of applications and its infrastructure, which will facilitate your missions of 24/7/365 tier 2/3 outage response, and improving the efficiencies. This role requires an active Secret clearance.
Your Responsibilities
• Monitor system health, define Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and ensure adherence to Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
• Respond promptly to outages, conduct root cause analyses, and implement durable solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to optimize and maintain Kubernetes environments and CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop and refine automation scripts to enhance system reliability, including automated recovery and self-healing capabilities.
• Build and maintain observability frameworks, integrating metrics, logging, and tracing tools for proactive issue identification.
• Contribute to performance tuning and scalability improvements across the application stack.
• Document incident responses and contribute to a knowledge base to foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to provide 24/7/365 support for mission-critical systems.
• Decomposes tasks into discrete objectives to serve the strategic direction of the team.
• Implements infrastructure and pipeline solutions with minimal direction in accordance with the project/organization technical standards.
• Resolves technical issues in software infrastructure like software-defined networks, databases, and compute resources.
• Advises the team on specific implementation options that meet business requirements.
• Designs and automates log collection, storage, and analysis.
• Automates security processes and vulnerability remediation.
• Contributes actively in team Agile processes through discussion and/or preparation.
• Manages the security posture of the system and helps maintain compliance with government regulations.
• Provides feedback to improve the team’s technical procedures.
• Delivers scripts and tooling that interacts with external APIs.
• Collaborates with other engineers and designers to implement features that meet design specifications and deliver business value.
Work Experience
Technical Skills:
• 6 years of experience in site reliability, systems engineering, or DevOps roles.
• Proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java, Bash).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and RESTful API design.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or Datadog). Experience with Elastic will be highly helpful with this position.
• Hands-on experience with incident response, including designing and improving incident management processes.
• Expertise in Observability practices, including metrics, logs, traces, and understanding of distributed tracing tools (e.g., OpenTelemetry).
• Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on building resilient, fault-tolerant systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Strong proficiency with Linux systems (especially RHEL) and scripting in Bash or Python. Skilled in managing infrastructure using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and configuration tools like Chef, Ansible, or Puppet.
• Deep understanding of application, network, and infrastructure security principles. Experience with distributed systems and scalable application architecture.
• Proficient in Git, including common and advanced commands (e.g., branching, merging, rebasing).
• Comfortable integrating with external APIs using REST, JSON, and authentication tokens. Familiarity with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift.
Soft Skills:
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
• Strategic thinking and strong problem-solving under pressure.
• Effective communication and collaboration across cross-functional teams.
• Self-motivated with initiative to drive personal and technical growth.
• Ability to mentor others and influence team practices through expertise and leadership.
Clearance:
• An ACTIVE and MAINTAINED "SECRET" Federal or higher
Other Requirements:
• Must be willing to do shift work to provide 24/7/365 coverage.
• Must be within 45 minutes drive of an IL6 workstation location (e.g., SIPR café, SCIF)
Education:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. Master's degree
• Have to have SEC+ or higher certification or ability to obtain it within six months from hire.
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