Information Security Engineer - Site Reliability
American Systems1 month ago
Middletown, RI, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$85k - $125k/yr
Responsibilities
- Operate, monitor, and maintain mission-critical applications, services, servers, and supporting infrastructure.
- Develop service-level indicators, service-level objectives, operational metrics, dashboards, alerts, and automated health checks.
- Investigate incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Automate deployment, configuration, monitoring, recovery, and system-administration activities using scripts and tools.
- Support CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, release planning, deployment readiness, and production validation.
- Analyze system performance, capacity, reliability, and resource utilization and recommend improvements.
- Develop and test backup, restoration, failover, disaster-recovery, and continuity-of-operations procedures.
- Support vulnerability identification, system hardening, patching, remediation, security compliance, and DoD cybersecurity requirements.
- Create system diagrams, operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, incident reports, and configuration documentation.
- Coordinate with software developers, system administrators, cybersecurity personnel, network engineers, and customer representatives.
- Participate in scheduled maintenance, after-hours or on-call support, and occasional travel to customer or program sites.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship and an active DoD SECRET security clearance are required.
- A bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, cybersecurity, engineering, or a related discipline and approximately three years of relevant experience are required; additional relevant experience, education, or technical training may substitute for the degree.
- Journeyman-level experience in site reliability engineering, DevSecOps, systems engineering, software engineering, systems administration, or infrastructure operations is required.
- Experience administering Linux and/or Windows server environments and developing with Python, Bash, PowerShell, Go, or similar languages is required.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, performance analysis, incident response, networking, infrastructure, version control, configuration management, deployment automation, security controls, patching, vulnerability remediation, backup, recovery, and service continuity is required.
- Ability to troubleshoot across application, operating-system, network, and infrastructure layers and communicate technical findings clearly is required.
- Preferred qualifications include classified-systems, DoD-network, or mission-critical-environment experience; observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic Stack, Splunk, or Nagios; and automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or Salt.
- Preferred experience includes CI/CD platforms, infrastructure-as-code tools, containers and orchestration, virtualization, reliability-engineering practices, DevSecOps, automated security testing, software supply-chain security, DoD cybersecurity requirements, DISA STIGs, vulnerability scanning, and Risk Management Framework processes.
- Relevant certifications such as CompTIA Security+, Linux+, Network+, Server+, Red Hat certifications, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, or cloud, DevOps, and site reliability certifications are preferred.
- Familiarity with undersea platforms or previous fleet experience is highly desired.
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits are provided for employees and dependents.
- Benefits include paid leave, retirement plans, insurance programs, and education and training assistance.
- This is a full-time, on-site role in Middletown, Rhode Island.
- The position includes occasional travel to customer or program locations and may require scheduled maintenance, after-hours, or on-call support.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About American Systems
AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal contractor that provides IT, engineering, cybersecurity, test and evaluation, and training services to U.S. defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, it delivers program support across areas such as cloud and software engineering, digital engineering, and acquisition support, typically through long-term government services contracts as a prime or subcontractor.