Site Reliability Engineer

$126,000 - $170,000/Yr

Technica - Washington, DC

Hybrid - Washington, DC

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

At Technica Corporation, our goal is to provide exceptional professional services and innovative technology solutions that meet or exceed our customer's expectations. We specialize in a wide range of advanced information technology solutions from Systems Engineering to Cyber Security, and from Software Development to Product Solutions. From our locations across the DC Metro area, Hampton, Virginia, and Huntsville, Alabama, we provide technological subject matter expertise, program management and business process knowledge as a trusted advisor in support of our Department of Defense and other Federal Agency customers. Technica is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer responsible for both the operations and maintenance of the Atlassian Developer Tools in support of our developer customers, and also the design, development, testing, and maintenance of a catalog of internally developed API based microservices. The individual is responsible for native functionality of the products, plugin integrations, and overall interoperability of the service in our organizational structure as it supports our customers in utilizing but not limited to the following: Bamboo, Bitbucket, Crucible, & Fisheye.

Responsibilities

• Conduct technical project milestone reviews, codes architecture sessions, provides resource estimation, and utilizes development best practices.
• Work with internal team members and external technical personnel and advise the customer to adhere to best practices to ensure quality of service, uptime, and security.
• Responsible for program design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation of custom API based microservices for the Atlassian products.
• Recommend and utilize the appropriate programming language for each component or workload based upon performance requirements, supportability, integration with existing components, maintainability, and other selection criteria deemed applicable.
• Analyze business functions or processes to understand the needs for which applications are being designed.
• Develop all components and services using industry best practices such as test driven development, centralized source code management, code reviews, and automated testing.
• Utilize continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD) workflows to the maximum extent possible for all published components.
• Produce DevOps best practice templates and guides to serve as examples to other development teams interested in transitioning to DevOps development workflows.
• Provide assistance with the creation and maintenance of trusted computing components, such as operating system images, application templates, platform as a service infrastructure, etc.
• Fully document development efforts using a combination of code comments, project issue tracking, change requests, and other formal documentation.
• Ensure that software deployments minimally impact production workloads running in production environments.

Requirements

• Active TS with SCI eligibility.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or other related analytical, scientific, or technical discipline.
• A minimum of 8 years' experience in the design and development of complex server based, client/server, API oriented, micro-service, and/or n-tiered applications.
• Strong Linux experience/Linux administration.
• Network Infrastructure/Configuration.
• Jira and/or Confluence Administration.
• Understands agile software design and able to create/consume stories within a sprint/release structures.
• Has full technical knowledge of all phases of applications systems analysis and programming.
• Advanced knowledge and implementation experience with the Atlassian Suite.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in Full Stack Java Development environments.
• Experience deploying services in Kubernetes environments.
• Experience serving as the engineer of complex technology implementations in a web service centric environment.

Benefits

• The annual base salary range for this position is $126,000 - $170,000.