Site Reliability Engineer

Fortress Information Security; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote and Hybrid working environment

Medical, dental, vision plans

401(k) with match

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Fortress Information Security in the Washington, DC area is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability of critical systems. You will transition applications from traditional Ansible deployments to containerized, orchestrated setups across AWS and on-premises environments, and enhance CI/CD with Blue/Green and Canary releases.

You will build testing environments, support Dev/QA/UAT, and improve infrastructure for developers, including monitoring, Vault

Qualifications

• 4–5 years hands-on experience in a SRE/DevOps role supporting production systems.
• Production experience supporting Linux-based infrastructure and AWS services (RDS, VPC, ECR, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Lambda, API Gateway) and on-premises.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins and Terraform.
• Excellent documentation skills so anyone on the team can come up-to-speed on changes quickly.
• Experience implementing rolling upgrades (canary, blue/green).
• Strong scripting and tooling (Bash, Python, JS).
• Active clearance preferred; ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
• Willingness and ability to work onsite in Patuxent River, Maryland up to 20% of the time.
• Must be willing to participate in technical interviews (may be recorded).

Responsibilities

• Transition applications to containerized deployments in AWS and on-prem.
• Build on CI/CD to support blue/green and canary releases.
• Support Development/QA/UAT by enabling testing across the lifecycle.
• Improve infrastructure for CI/CD, monitoring, clustering, configuration management.
• Migrate secrets/configs from Ansible Vault to Hashicorp Vault.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning during deployment.
• Handle code deployments in cloud and on-premises environments.
• Implement tools to monitor and alert on SLAs/SLOs.
• Provide technical guidance to teammates.
• Monitor availability and performance of systems.
• Be available for daytime and after-hours release activities.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Terraform

AWS

Ansible

CI/CD

Python

Bash

JavaScript

Linux

Security clearance

Communication

Time management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in IT/CS

Tools

Hashicorp Vault

CloudWatch

Git

Job description

Location: Hybrid – Washington DC/Virginia/Maryland metro with ability to travel to Patuxent River, MD, as needed (up to 20% of the time).

Compensation: $160,000 - 180,000 per year, depending on experience and qualifications.

Employment Type: Full-Time

What you can expect as the Site Reliability Engineer at Fortress

The Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of critical systems and services. This role focuses on transitioning applications from traditional Ansible deployments to containerized, orchestrated setups across AWS and on-premises environments. This role enhances CI/CD capabilities, supporting advanced deployment strategies like Blue/Green and Canary releases. By building flexible testing environments, the engineer supports Development, QA, and UAT efforts throughout the release lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Transition applications from traditional (non-containerized) Ansible deployments to containerized, orchestrated deployments in AWS and on-premises environments
• Build upon current CI/CD efforts to support different deployment strategies (Blue/Green, Canary, etc.)
• Support Development/QA/UAT efforts by building an environment for anyone in the company to test drive a release anywhere in the development lifecycle
• Improve upon common infrastructure for developers, such as CI/CD pipelines, log/application monitoring, cluster management, and configuration management
• Migrate application secrets and configuration from Ansible Vault to Hashicorp Vault
• Automate infrastructure provisioning during deployment
• Handle code deployments in all environments (cloud, on-premises)
• Implement tools to monitor and alert with respect to service level metrics and objectives
• Provide technical guidance and educate team members and coworkers on development and operations
• Monitor relevant systems for availability and performance
• Available to support daytime and after business hours release activities

Minimum Qualifications

• 4-5 years hands-on experience in a SRE/DevOps role supporting production systems
• Production experience supporting Linux-based infrastructure and administering services on AWS (RDS, VPC, ECR, CloudWatch, Cloud Formation, Lambda, API Gateway) and on-premises
• Demonstrable experience with deployment technologies such as Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins and Terraform (or similar technologies)
• Excellent documentation skills so anyone on the team can come up-to-speed on changes quickly
• Experience implementing rolling upgrades (canary, blue/green, etc.)
• Strong scripting and tooling skillset (Bash, Python, JS, etc.)
• Self-motivated, resourceful and a persistent problem-solving aptitude with advanced time management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to independently use and refine prompts to enhance the quality, efficiency, and insight of regular work processes
• Active clearance preferred; ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance (required)
• Willingness and ability to work onsite in Patuxent River, Maryland up to 20% of the time (required)
• Must be willing to participate in technical interviews and technical questions, which may be recorded or transcribed for evaluation purposes (required)

Preferred Skills

• Presentation skills and the ability to communicate with a variety of technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong scripting and tooling skillset (Bash, Python, JS, etc.).
• Strong Linux administration skills
• AWS administration skillsStrong documentation and organizational skills
• Self-motivated, resourceful and a persistent problem-solving aptitude

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline required.

Employee Benefits

• Remote and Hybrid working environment
• Competitive pay structure
• Medical, dental, vision plans with employees covered up to 90% with highly progressive options for dependents and families
• Company paid life, short- and long-term disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• 401(k) match
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Parental Leave

Employment Perks

• We provide each employee with professional growth opportunities through succession planning, up-skilling, and certifications
• Tuition and certification reimbursement
• Employee Referral Programs
• Company Sponsored Events

Fortress is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employees and applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Fortress Information Security takes part in the E-Verify process for all new hires.

For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will have to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case‑by‑case basis.