Site Reliability Engineer
Job Location:
North Charleston, SC - USA
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Job Summary
The Site Reliability Engineer will support a premier Navy program team in reviewing assessing and improving the reliability resilience observability and operational maintainability of next generation Navy afloat architecture. The candidate will work with technical staff Navy stakeholders cybersecurity teams infrastructure engineers software teams and operational representatives to ensure that SRE principles are considered early in architecture design integration test deployment and sustainment planning. :
- Reviewing proposed Navy afloat architecture designs for reliability availability scalability maintainability cybersecurity alignment and operational supportability
- Identifying architecture and implementation risks that could affect system uptime Fleet usability maintainability troubleshooting patching monitoring recovery or sustainment
- Defining and recommending SREaligned practices for Navy afloat systems including service level objectives operational metrics monitoring requirements alerting thresholds error budget concepts incident response workflows and reliability reporting
- Assisting engineering teams in translating operational reliability requirements into technical design considerations implementation standards and sustainment procedures
- Evaluating system designs against realworld afloat constraints including limited bandwidth intermittent connectivity shipboard infrastructure limits cybersecurity controls maintenance windows disconnected operations and mission availability requirements
- Supporting development of observability strategies including logging metrics tracing dashboards alerts health checks and performance monitoring
- Recommending automation opportunities to reduce manual operational workload improve repeatability reduce configuration drift and improve deployment and sustainment reliability
- Supporting root cause analysis for operational issues test findings integration failures or architecture concerns then converting findings into corrective actions and longterm reliability improvements
- Assisting with reliabilityfocused documentation including architecture review comments risk assessments operational concepts monitoring plans sustainment recommendations incident response workflows and executivelevel technical summaries
- Working with cybersecurity stakeholders to ensure reliability recommendations also support DoD cybersecurity requirements including STIG compliance vulnerability management audit logging privileged access controls and continuous monitoring
- Participating in technical working groups architecture reviews design reviews test planning sessions and customer briefings
- Supporting planning for deployment installation test checkout transition to operations and sustainment handoff activities
- Helping define operational readiness criteria for new or updated afloat capabilities before Fleet deployment
- Providing recommendations that balance modern SRE practices with Navy operational constraints cybersecurity mandates lifecycle supportability and mission execution needs
- Communicating clearly with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders including government sponsors program managers engineers cybersecurity staff and operational users
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- Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance
- U.S. citizenship required due to DoD contract and clearance requirements
- Ability to support a remote eligible role with coordination to the primary office in Charleston South Carolina
- Ability to obtain CSWF / DoD 8140 aligned IAT Level II qualification within the required contract or program timeline
- Current or ability to obtain one qualifying IAT Level II certification typically including one of the following:
- CompTIA Security CE
- CompTIA CySA
- GIAC GSEC
- ISC2 SSCP
- EC-Council CND
- Five or more years of experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Site reliability engineering
- Systems engineering
- Platform engineering
- DevSecOps
- Network or infrastructure operations
- Cloud hybrid cloud or enterprise hosting environments
- Mission critical IT operations
- Practical experience with Linux and Windows server environments including system hardening patching configuration troubleshooting logging and operational sustainment
- Working knowledge of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP DNS routing switching firewalls load balancing VPNs segmentation and network troubleshooting
- Experience designing reviewing or operating highly available systems with attention to uptime resilience observability recoverability and operational risk
- Experience with monitoring alerting log aggregation performance analysis and incident response.
- Understanding of SRE principles including:
- Service level indicators
- Service level objectives
- Error budgets
- Toil reduction
- Automation first operations
- Blameless post incident review
- Capacity planning
- Reliability risk assessment
- Experience supporting cybersecurity compliance in regulated environments preferably DoD or federal environments
- Familiarity with vulnerability management STIGs security baselines patch compliance privileged access audit logging and continuous monitoring
- Ability to evaluate architecture and design decisions for operational reliability maintainability cybersecurity posture and lifecycle sustainment
- Ability to translate technical findings into clear written recommendations for government sponsors engineering teams cybersecurity stakeholders and program leadership
- Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to document technical risks operational impacts and recommended mitigations
- Prior experience as an SRE in Fortune 100 or similar large scale environments
- Active DoD Secret clearance
- Experience supporting Navy NIWC NAVWAR Fleet tactical afloat or shipboard systems
- Experience with afloat or disconnected operations where bandwidth latency hardware constraints cybersecurity requirements and operational availability drive architecture decisions
- Experience reviewing or contributing to next generation architecture for Navy DoD tactical edge or mission critical platforms
- Experience with DoD Risk Management Framework Authority to Operate support continuous monitoring vulnerability remediation POA&Ms STIG implementation and cyber inspection readiness
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker Kubernetes OpenShift Rancher or similar platforms
- Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management tools such as Ansible Terraform Puppet Chef PowerShell DSC or similar technologies
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and secure software delivery using tools such as GitLab Jenkins GitHub Actions Azure DevOps Nexus Artifactory or similar platforms
- Experience with observability platforms and tooling such as Prometheus Grafana ELK / Elastic Stack Splunk OpenTelemetry Datadog New Relic or similar capabilities
- Experience with cloud or hybrid environments including AWS Azure Azure Government GovCloud private cloud VMware or other enterprise hosting platforms
- Experience with backup disaster recovery fail-over planning continuity of operations and data protection for mission critical systems
- Experience performing root cause analysis and converting incident findings into architectural operational or automation improvements
- Familiarity with Zero Trust principles identity and access management certificate management privileged access management endpoint security and secure remote administration
- Familiarity with Navy change control configuration management test events installation readiness reviews deployment planning or Fleet Readiness Change Board style processes
- Experience working directly with government customers system owners cybersecurity teams network engineers software teams and operational users
- One or more of the following certifications:
- Active Security CE or higher DoD 8140 / IAT Level II qualifying certification.
- CompTIA CySA
- ISC2 SSCP
- GIAC GSEC
- GIAC GCIH
- GIAC GCIA
- GIAC GCWN or GCUX
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator
- Red Hat Certified Engineer
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
- AWS Solutions Architect
- Microsoft Azure Administrator
- VMware Certified Professional
- Cisco CCNA or CCNP
- ITIL Foundation
- Certified ScrumMaster or SAFe certification where relevant to program execution
SRC IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT THIS POSITION WILL REQUIRE U.S. CITIZENSHIP AND ELIGIBILITY FOR A U.S. GOVERNMENT SECURITY CLEARANCE AT THE SECRET LEVEL
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Scientific Research Corporation is an advanced information technology and engineering company that provides innovative products and services to government and private industry as well as independent institutions. At the core of our capabilities is a seasoned team of highly skilled engineers and scientists with multidisciplinary backgrounds. This team is challenged daily to provide cutting edge technology solutions to our clients.
SRC offers a generous benefit package including medical dental and vision plans 401(k) with a company match life insurance vacation and sick paid time off accruals with amounts increasing based on role and years of service 11 paid holidays tuition reimbursement and a work environment that encourages excellence and more. For positions requiring a security clearance selected applicants will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
Scientific Research Corporation is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate in employment.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race color religion sex age sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability protected veteran status or any other protected characteristic under federal state or local law.
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Scientific Research Corporation is an advanced engineering company that was founded in 1988 to provide innovative solutions to the U.S. Government, private industry, and international markets. Since its inception, SRC has continued to successfully meet emerging challenges in the marke ... View more
