What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer position at Steampunk?
Overview
Design. Disrupt. Repeat.
Be an agent of change on a team committed to achieving client-focused, mission-driven excellence. Steampunk is looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with an appetite for taking on new challenges. This position will require some on-site work in Alexandria, VA.
Contributions
As a Senior Steampunk Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for working with program development teams, infrastructure and platform services teams, and traditional operations and maintenance teams to embrace and embody a shared responsibility for the reliability of an organizations’ applications and infrastructure. As an SRE, your primary responsibility is to combine aspects of software engineering with traditional operations to maintain and improve the reliability, availability, and performance of cloud, infrastructure, and large-scale software systems and services while minimizing downtime and mitigating potential failures.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor's degree and 10 years of IT experience, Master's degree and 8 years of experience, No degree and 14 years of experience
- Eligibile to obtain and maintain a government security clearance with Department of Commerce
- Must possess minimum 3 years of actual experience in the industry in an SRE role
- Must possess minimum 10 years of software engineer experience with skills in Angular, Node, Java, Python etc.
- Knowledge and experience with Agile and DevSecOps methodologies
- Experience with the following software/tools:
- Source code and binary repository products and techniques (GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, Artifactory, Nexus, etc.)
- Infrastructure and Cloud Management tools such as AWS CloudWatch
- Log Management and Analysis tools such as Splunk
- Automation and Configuration Management tools such as Terraform or Puppet
- Must be local to the DMV
Preferred
- Knowledge and experience with NewRelic and/or other AIOps platforms
- Have programming skills – Javascript, Ruby and/or Go
- Experience with Nginx, HAProxy, Docker, Kubernetes or similar technologies
- Experience with messaging systems, collaboration software, application-based firewall and proxy server(s), and operating systems
- Experience with Linux and Windows operating systems, along with scripting tools and techniques such as Bash, CSH, KSH, ZSH, etc. and/or Powershell.
- Experience with Monitoring and Alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and Datadog
About steampunk
Identity Statement
As part of the application process, you are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.
Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee owned company, we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers – and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.