Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)

BAE Systems is a defense, aerospace, and security company developing advanced technologies across air, land, maritime, space, and cyber domains. The Principal Site Reliability Engineer will deploy and monitor IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions, implement automation and infrastructure improvements, support large-scale distributed applications, and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver Excellence: Work in a team of SREs to ensure seamless, continuous service delivery
• Innovate and Implement: From concept to execution, bring service methodologies to life
• Be the Problem Solver: Tackle complex service requests, ensuring swift and efficient resolutions
• Measurement and Monitoring: Instrument and measure key performance indicators of the production environment to enable continuous improvement
• Support the Infrastructure: Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large-scale distributed software applications
• Scale systems through automation
• Communicate and Collaborate: Coordinate with cross-team members to complete tasks

Requirements:

• Must be able to obtain a Secret clearance and be eligible for TS/SCI clearance in the near future
• 4 to 6+ years in the realm of Site Reliability Engineering
• Experience with Juniper networking
• A desire to deliver excellence and a focus on meeting user needs
• An understanding of cloud technologies and service lifecycle management
• Experience in deploying capabilities and services through automation like Ansible or Helm Charts
• Experience with storage technologies like NFS, JDFS, Ceph, Object Storage (S3)
• Familiarity with virtualization technologies such as VMware, Open Stack, or Azure Stack
• Proactive approach to identifying and resolving performance issues
• Security+ or equivalent or ability to obtain a Security+ within 90 days
• 4 year degree in engineering-related discipline
• Active Secret or Higher Clearance
• Familiarity in Kubernetes and similar technologies
• Experience working in cross-functional teams
• Experience with coding beyond simple scripting
• Experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform