Mission-Critical DoD SRE - On-Site Automation & Resilience

AMERICAN SYSTEMS

Middletown (RI)

On-site

USD 85,000 - 125,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is seeking a journeyman-level Site Reliability Engineer to improve availability, performance, security, and resilience of mission-critical DoD systems. This role is based on-site in Middletown, Rhode Island, with occasional travel to program locations.

The ideal candidate will blend systems administration, software engineering, automation, and operations support to build reliable services, while developing monitoring dashboards and automating deployments in compliance with

Qualifications

U.S. Citizenship.
Active DoD SECRET security clearance.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, cybersecurity, engineering, or a related discipline and approximately three years of relevant experience.
Journeyman-level experience in site reliability engineering, DevSecOps, systems engineering, software engineering, systems administration, or infrastructure operations.
Experience administering Linux and/or Windows server environments.
Experience with scripting or software development using Python, Bash, PowerShell, Go, or a similar language.
Experience with system monitoring, logging, alerting, performance analysis, and incident response.
Working knowledge of TCP/IP networking and common network services; server/storage/virtualization; source-code management; configuration management and deployment automation; system security, backup/recovery.
Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues across application, operating system, network, and infrastructure layers.
Ability to create clear technical documentation and communicate technical findings to engineering and customer stakeholders.
Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a controlled, on-site environment.
Ability and willingness to travel occasionally.

Responsibilities

Operate, monitor, and maintain mission-critical applications, services, servers, and supporting infrastructure.
Develop and maintain service-level indicators, objectives, and operational metrics to measure system reliability.
Build dashboards, alerts, and automated health checks to identify availability, performance, capacity, and security issues.
Investigate system incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
Automate deployment, configuration, monitoring, recovery, and routine system-administration activities.
Develop scripts and tools using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or comparable languages.
Support continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines in accordance with program security and change-control requirements.
Reduce operational toil by standardizing processes and automating repetitive tasks.
Support infrastructure provisioning and configuration using approved infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management tools.
Analyze system performance, capacity, reliability, and resource utilization and recommend improvements.
Develop and test backup, restoration, failover, disaster-recovery, and continuity-of-operations procedures.
Participate in release planning, deployment readiness reviews, maintenance activities, and production validation.
Support vulnerability identification, system hardening, patching, remediation, and security compliance activities.
Apply applicable DoD cybersecurity requirements and Security Technical Implementation Guides.
Create and maintain system diagrams, operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, incident reports, and configuration documentation.
Coordinate with software developers, system administrators, cybersecurity personnel, network engineers, and customer representatives.
Participate in scheduled maintenance and provide after-hours or on-call support when required.
Travel occasionally to customer or program sites.