Site Reliability Engineer III — Mission-Critical Cloud & Kubernetes

Momentumcareers

Corridor North (MD)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 190,000

Full time

12 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

11 paid holidays

3 weeks PTO

Medical, dental, vision plans

Job summary

Momentum Engineering, Inc. seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to support a cloud-based platform built with Java/FOSS tech. You will enable data-intensive analytics across managed infrastructure in a mission-focused environment.

The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced team, is self‑motivated, and proactively resolves operational issues. This on-call role includes Tier 1–3 support responsibilities and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Qualifications

Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph required.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
Master’s degree may be equivalent to four years of experience.
DoD 8570 IAT Level I certification or higher preferred.
Fourteen (14) years of relevant technical experience.
Strong experience troubleshooting operational issues in Linux environments.

Responsibilities

Operate, administer, and ensure reliability of cloud-based infrastructure and platform services.
Provide Tier 1–3 technical support for users, applications, and infrastructure.
Troubleshoot complex system, application, networking, and Linux issues.
Monitor system health, availability, and performance; respond to incidents.
Support Kubernetes, Hadoop, and Accumulo in distributed environments.
Manage containerized apps with Docker and Kubernetes.
Develop automation scripts using Python, Bash, or similar.
Support HDFS environments and use Prometheus/Grafana for observability.
Use Salt and Ansible for configuration management and automation.
Contribute to incident response, root cause analysis, and improvements.