Reliability Engineer

Role Overview

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable infrastructure and services that support Hosting Services, Site Reliability Engineering, virtualization, and data center operations for a federal customer.
• Collaborate closely with software developers, infrastructure engineers, and IT operations teams to plan and execute deployments, improve system architectures, and enhance service reliability.
• Use automation and scripting (e.g., Python, Bash) to reduce manual work, streamline deployments, and improve consistency across environments.
• Monitor system performance, availability, and capacity using modern tooling; proactively identify issues and participate in on-call support to restore services quickly when incidents occur.
• Implement and support Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Git, and Terraform to enable reliable and repeatable releases.
• Leverage containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes to build resilient, scalable platforms.
• Work with databases (e.g., SQL, MySQL) and application stacks (e.g., Java-based services) to ensure data integrity, performance, and fault tolerance.
• Partner with cross-functional teams, using Jira and other collaboration tools, to track work, communicate status, and drive continuous improvement in reliability and operational excellence.
• Contribute to a culture of teamwork and collaboration by sharing knowledge, participating in post-incident reviews, and helping define best practices for reliability engineering.

Requirements

• 5+ years of related experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, systems engineering, or software engineering roles
• Experience with deployments and production operations in Linux-based environments
• Proficiency with scripting/coding (e.g., Python, Java, shell scripting)
• Hands-on experience with AWS or other cloud platforms
• Strong Linux administration skills
• Experience with SQL/MySQL and database concepts
• Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• CI/CD and automation tools (Jenkins, Git, Terraform, Ansible)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code ( IaC ) and automated configuration management
• Must have a BA/BS or equivalent

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• AWS
• Cloud
• Docker
• Java
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• MySQL
• Python
• Shell Scripting
• SQL
• Terraform

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
• 401K with company match
• Paid time off
• Full flex work weeks where possible
• Variety of paid time off plans including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
• 15 days of paid leave per calendar year
• Additional 10 paid holidays per year
• Short and long-term disability benefits
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance