Senior SRE: Cloud, Kubernetes & Linux (TS/SCI)

Momentum Engineering, Inc; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

11 paid holidays

3 weeks PTO

Group medical plan

Dental coverage

Vision

Life insurance

STD/LTD

Job summary

Momentum Engineering, Inc. is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to support a cloud-based platform built with Java and FOSS technologies including Kubernetes, Hadoop, and Accumulo.

You will be on-call and provide Tier 1–3 support to ensure reliability and performance of distributed systems. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced team, has strong Linux troubleshooting skills, and can develop automation with Python/Bash, using Prometheus and Grafana for observability.

Qualifications

• Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field is highly desired, may be equivalent to 2 years' experience.
• Master's degree may be considered equivalent to 4 years of experience.
• Degrees in Mathematics, Information Systems, Engineering, or similar disciplines are technical degrees.
• Fourteen (14) years of relevant technical experience.
• Strong experience troubleshooting operational issues in Linux environments.
• DoD 8570 IAT Level I certification or higher.
• Ability to provide Tier 1 through Tier 3 support in a mission-critical environment.
• Candidates must possess at least one of the following certifications:
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
• Elastic Certified Engineer
• Elastic Certified Observability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Support the operation, administration, reliability, and availability of cloud-based infrastructure and platform services.
• Provide Tier 1 through Tier 3 technical support for operational issues affecting users, applications, and infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex system, application, networking, and infrastructure issues within Linux environments.
• Monitor system health, availability, performance, and operational status.
• Support distributed computing technologies including Kubernetes, Hadoop, and Accumulo.
• Support containerized applications and services using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Develop and maintain automation and administrative scripts using Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
• Use monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana to identify and resolve operational issues.
• Support configuration management and automation tools such as Salt and Ansible.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and continuous improvement activities.
• Support virtualization, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Document troubleshooting procedures, operational processes, system changes, and recurring issues.
• Collaborate with developers, system administrators, engineers, and mission stakeholders to maintain reliable and scalable platform operations.
• Participate in on-call support and respond to operational issues as required.

Skills

Active TS/SCI clearance

On-call support

Linux troubleshooting

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master's degree; equivalence possible

Engineering/Math/Info Systems disciplines

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Salt

Ansible

AWS

OpenStack

Hadoop

HDFS

Python

Job description

Momentum Engineering, Inc. is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to support a cloud-based platform built with Java and FOSS technologies including Kubernetes, Hadoop, and Accumulo.

You will be on-call and provide Tier 1–3 support to ensure reliability and performance of distributed systems. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced team, has strong Linux troubleshooting skills, and can develop automation with Python/Bash, using Prometheus and Grafana for observability.