Systems Deployment Engineer — Automation & Observability

African American Talent; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 138,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Public Sector in Reston, VA is seeking a Systems Development Engineer for Deployment and Support. You will manage services at scale, automate toil, and build tooling to improve observability and reliability across Google-scale infrastructure.

You will mentor junior team members while supporting United States Government customers and participating in on-call rotations for timely issue resolution.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with current polygraph.

Responsibilities

• Scale systems sustainably through automation, engineering scripts and deployment frameworks to execute logical turnups and improve the service lifecycle.
• Architect observability solutions and telemetry pipelines, defining SLIs and dashboards to drive system reliability and operational velocity.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve complex, multi-domain system issues, analyzing root causes to develop tooling and patches that eliminate recurring failures and toil.
• Coordinate cross-functionally with engineering teams and vendors to seamlessly integrate compute and storage stacks, ensuring platform components operate within infrastructure constraints.
• Implement and adapt system configurations to satisfy security frameworks, developing solutions that bridge execution boundaries while protecting proprietary infrastructure and data.

Skills

Java

Python

JavaScript

C++

Perl

BASH

Vendors & Customers

Cloud services

Container orchestration

System security design

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT-related field, or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google Public Sector in Reston, VA is seeking a Systems Development Engineer for Deployment and Support. You will manage services at scale, automate toil, and build tooling to improve observability and reliability across Google-scale infrastructure.

You will mentor junior team members while supporting United States Government customers and participating in on-call rotations for timely issue resolution.