Site Reliability Engineer

About the position

Come put your Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) skills into action! Leidos has openings for talented SREs to join our team and develop reusable solutions that support our customers in any environment. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the design and implementation of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines that accelerate the secure delivery of software to production. You will automate the buildout of infrastructure in cloud and on-premises environments to operate Kubernetes clusters and microservices deployments. In this role, you will join dynamic Agile software teams that are singularly focused on providing world-class solutions to our customers in an exciting, collaborative, and inclusive atmosphere. You will be intellectually challenged and provided with a tremendous opportunity for growth in a fast-paced, and fun environment. You’ll learn, master, and improve the Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) processes and tools we use to develop, test, integrate, and deploy our Cloud-based and on-premises solutions into multiple hosting environments, such as AWS, Azure, VMWare, and others. You’ll learn new technologies and tools and apply what you’ve learned to overcome technological challenges with innovative solutions. You’ll collaborate with other software engineers and SREs to share your knowledge with the team and the organization to make us all better at what we do. You’ll perform technical spikes and develop prototypes to help test product concepts and achieve customer validation.

Responsibilities

• Gather and analyze metrics from operating systems as well as applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding of a microservice enterprise system (cloud and on-premises)
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
• Create sustainable systems and services through service automation
• Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug mission critical infrastructure
• Manage on-premises and private/public cloud environments via infrastructure-as-code (IaC)
• Participate in the design of reusable infrastructure components for scalable, highly available, secure architectures for cloud native applications
• Enable the continuous integration and continuous delivery of our diverse suite of software products by applying best practices for infrastructure provisioning, configuration and automated software deployments
• Continually evaluate fielded system deployments and apply best practices to facilitate continuous improvement that can be applied across teams
• Work closely with other engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product installation and field service activities (software patches, cyber updates, etc.)
• Develop solutions to complex technical issues and problems that impact multiple areas or disciplines
• Communicate with internal team members across multiple areas and coordinate completion of key deliverables across teams
• Liaise with external and internal customer stakeholders on technical design decisions and trade-offs and ensure software solution will meet required functional, performance, and SLA thresholds
• Mentor other SREs in the art of building, deploying, and maintaining production mission critical microservice enterprise systems
• Resolve roadblocks for the field service team, working collaboratively with the product engineering, technical leadership, and others

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or computer engineering with 4+ years of experience in a relevant field
• Experience delivering entire projects or processes spanning multiple technical areas
• Experience serving as a technical lead managing large projects or processes
• Working knowledge of Agile Development and continuous integration and continuous delivery methodologies and tools
• Expertise with Linux and Windows operating systems, network administration, and networking protocols/functions (e.g., HTTP, HTTPS, SSL/TLS, SMTP, DNS)
• Expertise provisioning and managing resources within IaaS/Cloud infrastructures (e.g., Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, etc.)
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, BASH Scripting, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, Ansible or similar technologies
• Expertise with container technologies such as Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes
• Expertise with Kubernetes kubectl
• Expertise of a version control system (e.g., Git)
• Strong, self-motivated desire to learn new tools, frameworks, and techniques
• Ability to complete tasking independently with minimal direct supervision
• Ability to work and collaborate effectively within a multi-disciplined engineering team

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Enterprise Event Brokers Technologies (Kafka, NATS)
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Grafana, Prometheus
• Experience with API Gateways such as ISTIO
• Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD, Flux CD, Fleet or similar
• Professional cybersecurity certification such as Security+, or similar
• Knowledge of Agile Development methodologies
• Familiarity with at least one Relational Database Management System (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, etc.)

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave
• Retirement