Site Reliability Engineer, Discovery

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own the health of our deployed systems and keep them running with minimal downtime.
• Automate and improve our software deployment processes into air-gapped, TS/SCI environments.
• Design, build, and maintain the CI/CD and automated test infrastructure for Cyber’s complex hardware and software systems.
• Develop metrics dashboards, TUIs, scripts, and other tools that automate common deployment steps or help to debug our software stack.
• Drive engineering requirements based on onsite observations.
• Perform root cause analysis and diagnose issues in mission-critical systems across our software stack, the Lattice OS stack, and external vendor services.
• Build strong relationships with internal and external customers to identify technical solutions to their problems.
• Drive continuous improvement by instrumenting systems, analyzing failures, and leading post-mortem events that span software, firmware, and hardware.

Job requirements

• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. TS/SCI security clearance.
• Based in the DC metro area to support 3-5 days per week working on site at customer facilities.
• 4+ years of experience in a Sys Admin, Site Reliability, DevOps, or Software Engineering role.
• Deep, practical experience with Linux and Kubernetes (or a similar container orchestrator).
• Working knowledge of network fundamentals and the ability to debug connectivity in a locked-down environment.
• Experience delivering and maintaining systems on air-gapped and security-hardened networks.
• Strong proficiency in Python or Bash for automation and debugging, and the ability to read and debug service code in a compiled language such as Go.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for collaborating with a cross-functional engineering team and external customers.