Principal Site Reliability Engineer
location- Washington DC
Remote- No
Job Summary
At Client, we're seeking a seasoned Principal Site Reliability Engineer with a strong focus on
pipelines as code, CI/CD, and IaC. You'll play a crucial role in automating and streamlining our
processes to enhance efficiency, reliability, and scalability in our software development lifecycle.
This person will work with engineering teams directly in helping them deliver their artifacts quicker to
production, and more reliably.
Essential Functions Pipelines a s Code: Develop and maintain robust, scalable, and efficient CI/CD pipelines using
code based tools such as Jenkins Pipeline, Github Actions, GitLab CI, or similar.
Infrastructure Automation: Implement and manage IaC using tools like Terraform, AWS
CloudFormation, or Ansible, ensuring a consistent and reliable infrastructure deployment.
Continuous Integration and Deployment: Build and maintain systems that improve the speed and
reliability of our CI/CD processes. Life cycle experience in migrating on prem assets to AWS or
Azure cloud.
Monitoring and Optimization: Monitor, analyze, and optimize infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for
performance and cost efficiency. Refine processes to i mpro ve service reliability, efficiency, and
system sc alability.
Incident Response and Change Management : Experience utilizing the ITIL Framework in
compliance with the corporate infrastructure processes, standards including Change and Incident
Management, Disaster Recovery, and Security/Government regulatory requirements.
C ollaboration and Leadership: Work collaboratively with software development and IT teams to
integrate DevOps methodologies into their workflows.
Security and Compliance: Ensure that the infrastructure and pipelines adhere to security best
practices and compliance standards. Familiar with SAST, DAST, secret scanning, open source
scanning, creating Software Bill of Materials (SBOM).
Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Document processes, systems, and architectures
clearly and share knowledge with team mem bers. Has a strong "Documentation as Code"