Cleared Site Reliability Engineer Lead

General Atomics Intelligence; Charlottesville (VA); On-site; USD 119,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

General Atomics Integrated Intelligence, Inc. (GA-Intelligence) designs and maintains production systems for the Intelligence Community, DoD, and industry. We deliver near real-time situational awareness by processing vast data with ML and analytics to identify what, where, and doing.

Join us to help deploy robust, secure, and scalable infrastructure. You will build automation, monitor systems, and drive efficient CI/CD pipelines while adhering to best practices in security and configuration

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD in computer science, information systems or related field with progressive software development experience.
• Experience with deployment technologies and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience with metrics monitoring dashboards (Grafana).
• Understanding of AWS services and cloud management.
• Knowledge of configuration management tools (Puppet).
• Experience with version control systems (Git, SVN).
• CI/CD processes and tools such as Jenkins.
• System monitoring and analysis; security controls and access practices.
• Familiarity with Intelligence Community and DoD mission sets.
• CompTIA Security+ certification or willingness to obtain.

Responsibilities

• Maintain development, testing, and production environments.
• Build and deploy automation, monitoring, and analysis solutions.
• Manage CI/CD pipeline to maximize efficiency.
• Implement system hardening and configuration management practices.
• Develop and maintain admin, backup, disaster recovery, and security monitoring processes.
• Evaluate systems against industry standards and propose improvements.
• Develop tools and microservices for deployment and operations platform.
• Test integrity of systems and deployments; implement improvements.
• Manage code deployments, fixes, and updates.

Skills

Cloud management

Communication & documentation

SDLC best practices

Independent & team work

Extended hours

System security controls

Sys admin across OS

CI/CD awareness

System monitoring & analysis

Intelligence community familiarity

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in CS or related field

Tools

Kubernetes (K8s)

Grafana

Puppet

Jenkins

Git

SVN

Job description

Job Summary

General Atomics Integrated Intelligence, Inc. (GA-Intelligence), an affiliate of General Atomics, maintains and deploys production systems for users across the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, and commercial industry. We build and develop best-in-class all domain and globally focused situational awareness capabilities that process petabytes of data from numerous streaming data sources in near real time. Our systems apply state-of-the-art algorithms and machine learning techniques to extract features and fuse data from multiple phenomenologies to form a rich live view of objects in the sky, on the sea, and on the ground. These analytics are designed to determine not just where something is, but what it is, where it's been and what it's doing. All of this "data to knowledge" is made available to end users in our own browser-based application for visualization, analysis, and understanding. We always want to do more, and that's where you come in!

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Under general direction, this position is responsible for maintaining development, testing, and production environments.
• Builds and deploys automation, monitoring, and analysis solutions.
• Manages continuous integration and delivery pipeline to maximize efficiency.
• Implements industry best practices for system hardening and configuration management.
• Develops and maintains solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery, and security/performance monitoring.
• Continuously evaluates existing systems with industry standards, and makes recommendations for improvement.
• Builds and maintains tools, solutions and microservices associated with deployment and our operations platform, ensuring that all meet our customer service standards and reduce errors.
• Tests system integrity, implemented designs, application developments and other processes related to infrastructure, making improvements as needed.
• Manages code deployments, fixes, updates and related processes.
• Works with open-source technologies as needed.
• Works with CI/ CD tools, and source control such as GIT and SVN.
• Offers technical support where needed, developing software for our back-end systems.
• Stays current with industry trends and source new ways for our business to improve.

We recognize and appreciate the value and contributions of individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences and welcome all qualified individuals to apply.

Job Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelors degree, masters degree or PhD in computer science, information system or related discipline and progressive software development experience as follows; nine or more years of experience with a bachelors degree, seven or more years of experience with a masters degree, or four or more years with a PhD. May substitute equivalent experience in lieu of education.
• Experience with deployment technologies, such as Kubernetes (K8s) for container orchestration.
• Experience with metrics monitoring and dashboards (Grafana).
• Understanding of user access practices and security controls within a system.
• Understanding of system administration in various OS environments.
• Strong knowledge of configuration management tools.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.
• Understanding of software development lifecycle best practices.
• Must be able to work both independently and in a team environment.
• Able to work extended hours as required.
• PREFERRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
• Understanding of AWS services and cloud management.
• Experience executing against database technologies.
• Experience with configuration management tools (Puppet).
• Continuous integration processes and tools such as Jenkins.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and collaboration tools.
• System monitoring and analysis.
• Familiarity with Intelligence Community and DoD mission sets.
• CompTIA Security+ certification or willingness to get certified.

Job Type: Full-Time Salary

Salary range: 118,500 - 207,750