Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Responsibilities:

• Manage, support and maintain a reliable environment for the site to ensure the stability and security of multiple systems/platforms that are run or operated in that environment
• Develop or contribute to solutions to a variety of problems of moderate scope and complexity
• Oversee the development of more robust systems for by building a resilient infrastructure
• Build in redundancy, implement monitoring tools, and automate wherever possible and reduce toil by scripting routine tasks and automating self-repair

*Position is contingent upon contract award*

Required Expertise:

• 5 years with BS/BA; 3 years with MS/MA; 0 years with PhD

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or other highly technical, scientific discipline
• Current GSA Public Trust or ability to obtain GSA Public Trust
• The SRE requires minimum of 5 years of programming experience with Operations of enterprise systems with over million users
  • Includes 5+ years of experience in working within software engineer team who leveraged DevOps with development
  • 5+ years of experience with Cloud Architecture, preferably AWS
  • 5+ years of experience in DevSecOps
  • 3+ years of experience with microservicesExperience using a wide variety of open source and COTS technologies and tools
• Strong background working in an agile development environment, collaborating with Application Development and Architecture Teams
• Experience working in a High Availability environment with 99.99%+ uptime
• Ability to program (structured and OO) with one or more high level languages, such as Python, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and JavaScript
• Experience with cloud storage technologies as well as dynamic resource management frameworks (Mesos, Kubernetes, Yarn)
• A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks
• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health
• Build software and systems to manage/operate platform infrastructure and applications
• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
• Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large, distributed software applications and Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market for suite of software solutions
• Ensure Production readiness for releases which includes Performance/Usability Testing
• Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
• 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 automation and uplifts
• Production incidents RCAs and Conducting post-incident reviews
• Experience in developing operational playbooks/runbooks, and disaster recovery testing
• A strong focus on achieving value for business objectives
• Comfort with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders
• Strong analytical, communication, and decision-making skills. Proficiency in a variety of computer programs and applications including VMWare, Windows, Linux, Oracle, and Solaris.

Preferred Certifications

• AWS SysOps Administrator Certificate or AWS Developer – Associate Certificate
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer- Professional

Preferred Education:

• Masters’ Degree preferred or bachelor’s level degree with equivalent years of work experience

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

$112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.