Site Reliability Engineer

$120,000 - $120,000/Yr

Maximus - Colorado Springs, CO

Full-time - Senior

Colorado Springs, CO

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Maximus is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to provide expertise to a federal client in support of their mission-critical systems in defense of our Homeland. The role focuses on ensuring the availability, reliability, and performance of critical systems and applications, utilizing a diverse set of relevant technologies. The Site Reliability Engineer will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and managing scalable and highly available systems.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant systems, leveraging a range of technologies.
• Monitor and analyze system performance, utilizing a diverse set of monitoring and alerting tools, and take proactive actions to prevent and resolve incidents.
• Design and implement automated infrastructure provisioning, utilizing tools like Terraform, Chef, Ansible, or comparable technologies.
• Develop and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, incorporating technologies such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and more.
• Conduct system capacity planning and scaling, utilizing performance testing and optimization techniques across various technologies.
• Implement and maintain robust backup and disaster recovery solutions, leveraging relevant technologies, to ensure data integrity and system availability.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure application reliability, performance, and scalability in production environments.
• Stay updated with industry best practices and emerging trends in site reliability engineering and incorporate relevant technologies.

Requirements

• Active Secret clearance is required.
• Must be a U.S. citizen with no dual citizenship.
• 15+ years of experience in relevant fields.
• Experience supporting IT platforms, environments, and infrastructure is required.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• Life and disability insurance
• Retirement savings plan
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off