Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Role Overview

• Effectively coordinate, lead, and support developers, operations, product owners, and key stakeholders through partnering to implement Service Level Objectives, Service Level Indicators, and Incident Management processes.
• Serve as a primary technical resource for DevOps strategy, automation, and deployment standards, guiding development and operations teams.
• Design, build, and maintain robust and scalable CI/CD pipelines for effective and efficient code releases.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Automate configuration management to promote mature change management and release strategies.
• Establish relevant and actionable monitoring and alerting for microservice-based applications and infrastructures.
• Collaborate with other teams to ensure smooth and secure build, release, and deployment processes.
• Integrate DevSecOps principles and automated security tools into CI/CD pipelines.
• Advise and support troubleshooting infrastructure and deployment issues.
• Champion a DevOps culture, evaluate new technologies, and stay updated on industry trends.
• Support current and future complex and demanding customers with an established team, providing coaching and guidance on DevOps best practices.
• Develop and integrate custom-developed software solutions to leverage automated deployment technologies.
• Develop, prototype, and deploy solutions within Commercial/Government Cloud Solutions leveraging Infrastructure platform services.
• Coordinate closely with team members, Product Owners, and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation to customer use cases.
• Analyze infrastructure needs driven by developed software to meet customer mission needs, utilizing proof-of-concept, performance, and end-to-end testing.
• Support the Agile software development lifecycle following Program SAFe practices.
• Document and maintain containerized images and deployment artifacts across different environments, leveraging GitFlow constructs.
• Communicate key project data to team members and build team cohesion and effectiveness.
• Leverage Atlassian tool suite like JIRA and Confluence to track activities.
• Apply and identify best practices and standard operating procedures.
• Architect innovative solutions to meet the technical needs of customers.

Requirements

• Must be able to obtain multiple clearances
• Must have a US Citizenship
• Master's Degree with 15+ years of prior relevant experience
• Will consider work experience in lieu of a degree
• Proficient with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and development practices
• 3-5 years of experience with at least one object-oriented programming language: Python, Java, or C
• Must have experience in software architecture
• Expert in the software development lifecycle, with experience delivering within DevOps toolsets/practices
• Design and management of scalable CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins or GitLab CI
• Direct experience utilizing software testing performance tools
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python or Bash
• Experience working in an Agile development environment and tempo
• Solid knowledge of Databricks, Kubernetes/Openshift and AWS cloud services
• Experience with Docker, Terraform, and Helm
• Proficiency with Linux/Unix systems administration
• Working knowledge of monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Kibana, CloudWatch)
• Experience with database technologies (SQL Server, Postgres)
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Well versed with using version control systems (Git)
• Well versed with using issue/problem tracking systems (Jira)

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• AWS
• Cloud
• Docker
• Java
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• OpenShift
• Postgres
• Prometheus
• Python
• SQL
• Terraform
• Unix

Benefits

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