Site Reliability Engineer

Description

The Site Reliability Engineer will support a premier Navy program team in reviewing, assessing, and improving the reliability, resilience, observability, and operational maintainability of next generation Navy afloat architecture. The candidate will work with technical staff, Navy stakeholders, cybersecurity teams, infrastructure engineers, software teams, and operational representatives to ensure that SRE principles are considered early in architecture, design, integration, test, deployment, and sustainment planning. 

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Reviewing proposed Navy afloat architecture designs for reliability, availability, scalability, maintainability, cybersecurity alignment, and operational supportability

Identifying architecture and implementation risks that could affect system uptime, Fleet usability, maintainability, troubleshooting, patching, monitoring, recovery, or sustainment

Defining and recommending SRE‑aligned practices for Navy afloat systems, including service level objectives, operational metrics, monitoring requirements, alerting thresholds, error budget concepts, incident response workflows, and reliability reporting

Assisting engineering teams in translating operational reliability requirements into technical design considerations, implementation standards, and sustainment procedures

Evaluating system designs against real‑world afloat constraints, including limited bandwidth, intermittent connectivity, shipboard infrastructure limits, cybersecurity controls, maintenance windows, disconnected operations, and mission availability requirements

Supporting development of observability strategies, including logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, alerts, health checks, and performance monitoring

Recommending automation opportunities to reduce manual operational workload, improve repeatability, reduce configuration drift, and improve deployment and sustainment reliability

Supporting root cause analysis for operational issues, test findings, integration failures, or architecture concerns, then converting findings into corrective actions and long‑term reliability improvements

Assisting with reliability‑focused documentation, including architecture review comments, risk assessments, operational concepts, monitoring plans, sustainment recommendations, incident response workflows, and executive‑level technical summaries

Working with cybersecurity stakeholders to ensure reliability recommendations also support DoD cybersecurity requirements, including STIG compliance, vulnerability management, audit logging, privileged access controls, and continuous monitoring

Participating in technical working groups, architecture reviews, design reviews, test planning sessions, and customer briefings

Supporting planning for deployment, installation, test, checkout, transition to operations, and sustainment handoff activities

Helping define operational readiness criteria for new or updated afloat capabilities before Fleet deployment

Providing recommendations that balance modern SRE practices with Navy operational constraints, cybersecurity mandates, lifecycle supportability, and mission execution needs

Communicating clearly with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders, including government sponsors, program managers, engineers, cybersecurity staff, and operational users

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Requirements

Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance

U.S. citizenship required due to DoD contract and clearance requirements

Ability to support a remote eligible role with coordination to the primary office in Charleston, South Carolina

Ability to obtain CSWF / DoD 8140 aligned IAT Level II qualification within the required contract or program timeline

Current or ability to obtain one qualifying IAT Level II certification, typically including one of the following:

CompTIA Security+ CE

CompTIA CySA+

GIAC GSEC

ISC2 SSCP

EC-Council CND

Five or more years of experience in one or more of the following areas:

Site reliability engineering

Systems engineering

Platform engineering

DevSecOps

Network or infrastructure operations

Cloud, hybrid cloud, or enterprise hosting environments

Mission critical IT operations

Practical experience with Linux and Windows server environments, including system hardening, patching, configuration, troubleshooting, logging, and operational sustainment

Working knowledge of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, switching, firewalls, load balancing, VPNs, segmentation, and network troubleshooting

Experience designing, reviewing, or operating highly available systems with attention to uptime, resilience, observability, recoverability, and operational risk

Experience with monitoring, alerting, log aggregation, performance analysis, and incident response.

Understanding of SRE principles, including:

Service level indicators

Service level objectives

Error budgets

Toil reduction

Automation first operations

Blameless post incident review

Capacity planning

Reliability risk assessment

Experience supporting cybersecurity compliance in regulated environments, preferably DoD or federal environments

Familiarity with vulnerability management, STIGs, security baselines, patch compliance, privileged access, audit logging, and continuous monitoring

Ability to evaluate architecture and design decisions for operational reliability, maintainability, cybersecurity posture, and lifecycle sustainment

Ability to translate technical findings into clear written recommendations for government sponsors, engineering teams, cybersecurity stakeholders, and program leadership

Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document technical risks, operational impacts, and recommended mitigations

Desired Skills

Prior experience as an SRE in Fortune 100 or similar large scale environments

Active DoD Secret clearance

Experience supporting Navy, NIWC, NAVWAR, Fleet, tactical, afloat, or shipboard systems

Experience with afloat or disconnected operations where bandwidth, latency, hardware constraints, cybersecurity requirements, and operational availability drive architecture decisions

Experience reviewing or contributing to next generation architecture for Navy, DoD, tactical edge, or mission critical platforms

Experience with DoD Risk Management Framework, Authority to Operate support, continuous monitoring, vulnerability remediation, POA&Ms, STIG implementation, and cyber inspection readiness

Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Rancher, or similar platforms

Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, PowerShell DSC, or similar technologies

Experience with CI/CD pipelines and secure software delivery using tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Nexus, Artifactory, or similar platforms

Experience with observability platforms and tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK / Elastic Stack, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, New Relic, or similar capabilities

Experience with cloud or hybrid environments, including AWS, Azure, Azure Government, GovCloud, private cloud, VMware, or other enterprise hosting platforms

Experience with backup, disaster recovery, fail-over planning, continuity of operations, and data protection for mission critical systems

Experience performing root cause analysis and converting incident findings into architectural, operational, or automation improvements

Familiarity with Zero Trust principles, identity and access management, certificate management, privileged access management, endpoint security, and secure remote administration

Familiarity with Navy change control, configuration management, test events, installation readiness reviews, deployment planning, or Fleet Readiness Change Board style processes

Experience working directly with government customers, system owners, cybersecurity teams, network engineers, software teams, and operational users

One or more of the following certifications:

Active Security+ CE or higher DoD 8140 / IAT Level II qualifying certification.

CompTIA CySA+

ISC2 SSCP

GIAC GSEC

GIAC GCIH

GIAC GCIA

GIAC GCWN or GCUX

Red Hat Certified System Administrator

Red Hat Certified Engineer

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

AWS Solutions Architect

Microsoft Azure Administrator

VMware Certified Professional

Cisco CCNA or CCNP

ITIL Foundation

Certified ScrumMaster or SAFe certification, where relevant to program execution

Clearance Information

SRC IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, THIS POSITION WILL REQUIRE U.S. CITIZENSHIP AND ELIGIBILITY FOR A U.S. GOVERNMENT SECURITY CLEARANCE AT THE SECRET LEVEL

Travel Requirements

None

About Us

Scientific Research Corporation is an advanced information technology and engineering company that provides innovative products and services to government and private industry, as well as independent institutions. At the core of our capabilities is a seasoned team of highly skilled engineers and scientists with multidisciplinary backgrounds. This team is challenged daily to provide cutting edge technology solutions to our clients.

 

SRC offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 401(k) with a company match, life insurance, vacation and sick paid time off accruals starting at 10 days of vacation and 5 days of sick leave annually, 11 paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, and a work environment that encourages excellence and more. For positions requiring a security clearance, selected applicants will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

EEO

Scientific Research Corporation is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate in employment.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state or local law.

 

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