Site Reliability Engineer, Lead

Site Reliability Engineer, Lead 

Onsite | Chantilly, VA

TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph required

Summary

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) on our team, you’ll be responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, scalability, and security of critical production systems and platforms. This role leads the design and implementation of observability, automation, incident response, and operational best practices across cloud and air-gapped environments, while partnering closely with DevOps, infrastructure, and security teams to improve system resilience and reduce operational risk. The Lead SRE also drives root cause analysis, capacity planning, reliability standards, and continuous improvement initiatives to support highly available, efficient, and scalable services. This is your chance to further your skills in cloud infrastructure and technologies while continuing to grow your SRE experience. You'll build and support a reliable site for the environment in order to meet the development and maintenance requirements of systems and platforms. Work with the development and operation teams to evaluate the health, stability and reliability of systems and platforms. Design and develop technical tools to debug problems that occur in the deployment of applications, within 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 Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps Engineering, or Platform Engineering in lieu of a degree

• Ability to obtain a Security+ CE, SSCP, CCNA-Security, or GSEC Certification within 6 months of start date

Preferred Requirements

• Experience with 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

Education/Certification Requirements

• Bachelor's degree 

Clearance Requirements

• Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; an active TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph required