Network Reliability Engineer

Role Overview

• Work alongside the development and operations teams to ensure speedy and reliable software deployments
• Monitor systems, and improve overall reliability of the platform
• Create change management tickets, and perform break fix of network appliances
• Develop features utilizing 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
• 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
• 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

Requirements

• Requires BS degree and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience
• Currently possess and ability to maintain an active DoD Secret security clearance and be eligible for a top secret
• Minimum of DoD 8570.01 IAT Level II Certification required prior to onboarding and must maintain certification while supporting the SMIT Contract
• Must have a vendor certification e.g., CCNA, CCNP, Juniper, Palo Alto, Aruba etc
• 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.)
• Experience with network switches, routers, VLANs, DMZ, VPN, IPS, load balancers, and FW
• Experience with SDWAN and Arista
• Experience in application administration, configuration, and integration
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies
• Skilled and disciplined to work with a distributed team
• 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 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

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• AWS
• Azure
• Chef
• Cloud
• Jenkins
• Puppet
• Python
• Splunk
• Terraform

Benefits

• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave
• Retirement