Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Striveworks - Tampa, FL
posted 1 day ago
About the position
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Striveworks, you will be challenged-and trusted-on day one to take ownership of specific product deployments by maintaining, optimizing, and enhancing our on-premises and cloud computing environments. You will play a crucial role in the successful deployment of our software solutions to clients. You will be responsible for executing technical aspects of implementation projects and for ensuring the seamless integration, customization, and configuration of our software. Your expertise will play a critical role for the company as we deploy new instances of Striveworks' machine learning operations (MLOps) capabilities to customer infrastructure. You are right for this opportunity if you value and possess technical expertise and you enjoy pushing the boundaries of your capabilities. You will be responsible for maintaining Striveworks' software deployments both on-premises and with various cloud service providers, using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) methodologies.
Responsibilities
- Automating IaC to stand-up virtual machines and deploying containers, services, and other infrastructure; leaning on expertise to deploy custom Kubernetes clusters in AWS, Azure, GCP, on-premises, or hybrid cloud environments
- Working with platform developers and DevOps to define requirements and build solutions for customer use cases of the platform
- Software deployments to unclassified, CUI, Secret, and Top Secret DOD networks
- Incident response and initial triage of critical system faults
- Monitoring, automating, and improving software reliability, performance, and availability
- Providing guidance and leadership to junior SRE team members
Requirements
- 6+ years of direct, hands-on experience in Microservice deployment in Kubernetes
- Diagnosing and resolving issues within containerized environments
- Helm Chart and Kustomizations development/deployment
- Python and Bash programming
- Automation and IaC (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
- Cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, or OpenStack)
- Managing and troubleshooting Linux systems (e.g., RHEL, Ubuntu, Centos)
- Software deployments to on-premises and cloud-based unclassified, CUI, Secret, and Top Secret networks within the DoD
- The ability to work cross-functionally with platform developers to define requirements and build solutions for customer use cases of the platform
- The ability to respond professionally and competently to incident reports and triage of critical system faults
- Active Top Secret security clearance and intimate familiarity with DOD networking, tools, infrastructure, security requirements, and policies
Nice-to-haves
- Experience deploying, maintaining, or contributing to CNCF projects
- Proficiency with US federal information system security policies, including Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, CMMC, ICD 503
- Experience with DevSecOps/DevOps and CI/CD for the administration and deployment of GPU-enabled servers
- Experience with network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN) technologies
- Deep knowledge of DevOps principles and practices for deploying and managing service mesh in cloud environments
- Experience with both blue-green and Canary deployment strategies
- Experience designing, managing, and optimizing workloads across multiple cloud providers
- Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native applications and services in denied, disrupted, intermittent, and limited (DDIL) impact environments
- DOD 8570 IAT II certification (Security+ CE); proficient with security automation and familiarity with API security, container security, and cloud security
Benefits
- Top-of-market salary and total compensation
- Generous equity plan
- Health/vision/dental insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- Parental leave
