Leidos · 2 hours ago
Site Reliability Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$108K/yr - $195K/yr
6+ years expLeidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. They are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to focus on the reliability, performance, and scalability of complex distributed systems, contributing to the development of robust services that operate reliably in production.
ComputerGovernmentInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyNational SecuritySoftware
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Work independently with the development and operations teams to ensure speedy and reliable software deployments, monitor systems, and improve overall. reliability of the platform. In addition, as you discover and document system bugs, you have the motivation to go off and fix them yourself
Develop features utilize the AI coding tool and repository of scripts to automate, scale, test, and secure the cloud infrastructure and the pipelines
Enhance performance monitoring of the various systems via Splunk or other dashboard reporting tools
Identify performance bottlenecks and optimize the performance of cloud infrastructure
Contribute to continuing our SRE journey by suggesting ways to improve engineering build, maintenance, automation and reliability across the platform with SRE/DevOps tools and Infrastructure-as-Code
Develop and code high-quality pipeline automation workflows to support inside and outside the cloud platform that are appropriate for business and technology strategies
Develop and execute test strategies that simulate real-world failure scenarios, including network disruptions, hardware failures, and system overloads
Create, script, and run performance tests to measure system behavior under varying levels of load and traffic. Identify bottlenecks, performance degradation, and areas for optimization
Design, implement, and maintain automated test suites for infrastructure and application components. Ensure that testing is integrated into the CI/CD pipeline to validate system reliability with every release
Build automated systems for continuous performance testing, stress testing, and load testing
Collaborate with other SREs, developers, and operations teams to define reliability goals and develop appropriate testing strategies to validate those goals
Ensure that new services and features undergo thorough testing for performance, reliability, and failure recovery before deployment to production
Validate that monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms are functioning correctly by testing systems under failure conditions
Ensure that Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) are accurately measured and tracked through automated testing frameworks
Resolve most conflicts between timeline, budget, and scope independently but intuitively raise sophisticated or consequential issues to senior management
Qualification
Required
Requires BS degree and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or Master's with 6 years of prior relevant experience
Currently possess and ability to maintain an active DoD Secret security clearance
Minimum of DoD 8570.01 IAT Level II Certification required prior to onboarding and must maintain certification while supporting the SMIT Contract
Must be able to support program execution in classified environments and access SIPRNet from an NMCI location on short notice (local travel)
Experience in CI/CD toolsets (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)
Experience with Containerization (Docker) and Container Orchestration (Kubernetes)
Experience in application administration, configuration, and integration
Familiarity with agile development methodologies
Skilled and disciplined to work with a distributed team
Ability to work in a highly collaborative, forward thinking, and innovation-driven environment
Knowledge of Agile and DevSecOps/SRE concepts and best practices, with a desire to grow that knowledge
Hand-on experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.)
Experience creating JIRA and/or Azure DevOps workflows, projects, custom configurations
Preferred
Experience with automated script design, coding, debugging, and maintenance skills (using bash, python, etc.) preferred
Benefits
Health and Wellness programs
Income Protection
Paid Leave
Retirement
Company
Leidos
Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world’s most vexing challenges in national security and health.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2025-02-20Post Ipo Debt
2013-09-17IPO
Leadership Team
James Carlini
Chief Technology Officer
Theodore Tanner
Chief Technology Officer
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