Site Reliability Engineer, Lead
Booz Allen Hamilton6 hours ago
Base Salary
$99k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement observability, automation, incident response, and operational best practices across cloud and air-gapped environments.
- Lead root cause analysis, capacity planning, reliability standards, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Build and support reliable systems and platforms while evaluating their health, stability, performance, and scalability.
- Develop technical tools in Python to debug application deployment and platform issues.
- Partner with development, DevOps, infrastructure, and security teams to improve system resilience and reduce operational risk.
- Administer, troubleshoot, and operate Kubernetes and related infrastructure.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience with monitoring, logging, and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack.
- 8+ years of experience with Linux systems administration and networking fundamentals within AWS.
- Experience with Python scripting and automation, Terraform, and Terragrunt.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes administration, troubleshooting, and operations.
- Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps Engineering, or Platform Engineering experience, or 12+ years of equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.
- TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph is required.
- Ability to obtain Security+ CE, SSCP, CCNA-Security, or GSEC certification within six months of starting.
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, AWS CloudWatch, AWS EKS, Rancher, SRE practices, Jenkins, Git, Docker, Nessus, JIRA, and Confluence is preferred.
- Preferred knowledge includes distributed systems, microservices architectures, containerized workloads, NIST 800-53, and NIST-190.
- A relevant master’s degree or an approved security certification is preferred.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits are available to eligible employees.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, dependent care, and recognition awards are offered.
- The position is onsite in Chantilly, Virginia, with work primarily performed at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
- This is a full-time or part-time role; employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis are eligible for Booz Allen benefit programs, subject to plan terms.
Categories
Site Reliability
About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton builds and integrates software, analytics, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions while providing engineering and consulting services, primarily for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil government clients, with select commercial partnerships. Its business is largely government contracting and professional services delivering mission systems and cyber defense. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Booz Allen is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: BAH).