Senior AI Reliability Engineer — Automation & Platform Health

Lockheed Martin Corporation; Connecticut; On-site; USD 110,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Flexible work arrangements (e.g., 4x10

401(k) match

Paid time off

Holidays

Parental Leave

Education Assistance

Life Insurance

PTO and holidays align

Job summary

Lockheed Martin Corporation is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for its AI Factory team in the United States. This role leads reliability improvements across AI development and deployment platforms, turning repeated issues into scalable software solutions through automation, observability, and testing.

You will own a defined area of the reliability roadmap and collaborate with platform, application, and operations teams to implement reusable, cross-system improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining production software or automation using Go, Python, or a comparable language.
• Experience operating or engineering Kubernetes-based platforms, including troubleshooting complex service or infrastructure issues.
• Experience building or improving CI/CD, GitOps, infrastructure automation, or deployment workflows.
• Experience using observability data—including metrics, logs, or traces—to diagnose problems and improve system health.
• Demonstrated ability to own a technical initiative through design, implementation, and coordination with other teams.

Responsibilities

• Independently lead a significant reliability capability, such as incident-response automation, platform health and observability, release validation, or resilience testing.
• Identify recurring failure modes and operational toil; design and implement software, automation, and process improvements that address their underlying causes.
• Build and maintain operational tooling that helps teams validate system health, investigate issues, and recover more effectively.
• Lead and implement approaches for standardizing and correlating metrics, logs, and traces across services, improving how teams detect and troubleshoot reliability issues.
• Define and standardize approaches for validating upgrades, releases, and platform changes, including automated testing of failure and recovery scenarios.
• Define and standardize CI/CD, GitOps, and progressive-delivery practices across teams to reduce deployment risk.
• Lead technical reviews with partner teams, communicate reliability recommendations, and coordinate implementation across team boundaries.
• Establish reusable engineering patterns, review code and designs, and mentor less-experienced engineers.
• Contribute to reliability platforms such as Cluster Concierge while retaining ownership of broader reliability outcomes, not just a single product.

Skills

Go

Python

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

Ownership

Tools

OpenShift

GitLab CI/CD

Argo CD

Argo Rollouts

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Lockheed Martin Corporation is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for its AI Factory team in the United States. This role leads reliability improvements across AI development and deployment platforms, turning repeated issues into scalable software solutions through automation, observability, and testing.

You will own a defined area of the reliability roadmap and collaborate with platform, application, and operations teams to implement reusable, cross-system improvements.