The Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Lead must be able to meet the key criteria below:

Location: 100% remote

Years’ Experience: 10+ years professional experience

Education: Bachelor degree or higher

Security Clearance: IBR is a federal contractor. Applicants must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance.

NOTE: United States Citizenship is required as part of the eligibility criteria to be able to obtain this type of security clearance.

Employment Type: Exempt or Non-Exempt

Key Skills:

• Must have experience serving as a SRE
• Prior leadership and experience with leading a team
• Deep understanding of SRE principles for highly scalable and reliable systems.
• Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code expertise
• Must have experience with New Relic

Position Overview

Do you want to assist in improving how our nation uses data for better decision-making? Do you have a passion for solving some of the toughest challenges and pushing the boundaries of leading-edge technologies? At IBR, we are transforming how data can be discovered, accessed, and consumed by the public for the public. IBR is looking for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer that is passionate about providing top tier customer support to end users in a fast paced and dynamic environment. If you want to join a company that is fanatically obsessed with creating value in our people and clients, we want you to work for IBR!

Responsibilities

• Responsible for incident response, monitoring, alerting, triaging and closing of real problems
• Ensure platform stability and availability
• Responsible for the metrics reporting and tracking, evaluation of proper function, support to the teams for enhance performance
• Design and implement end-to-end continuous delivery pipelines.
• Leverage extensive AWS cloud experience in a production environment (e.g., network, security, deployment, automation, serverless technologies).
• Utilize a deep understanding of SRE principles for highly scalable and reliable systems.
• Leverage extensive experience with Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code.
• Works with application teams to document application internal/external interface requirements for Development, Testing, Staging and Production environments
• Works with application teams to ensure compliance with High Availability and Disaster Recovery related concept of operations.
• Build service level requirements for SLA’s
• Implements middleware application specific requirements as needed
• Implements migration efforts with application teams, including data migration
• Serve as a thought leader for agile development teams.
• Establish clarity of direction and a shared vision of success that is championed by team members, stakeholders, and product owners.
• Build relationships, and work in collaboration with team members, stakeholders, product owners, and technical team leads.
• Help enhance processes, communication, and delivery through new norms that improve how work is done — from discovery to delivery.
• Provides technical guidance to application teams to take advantage of cloud technologies, and implement cloud infrastructure, as needed.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering and DevOps experience
• Bachelor degree or higher education required
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance
• Must have experience with highly scalable and reliable systems by implementing and maintaining processes and tools
• Incident response, monitoring performance and releases, alerting, and triaging expertise
  • ServiceNow, AWS Insight, Splunk, VictorOPS, CloudWatch, New Relic, and Confluence expertise preferred
• Experience in designing and implementing end-to-end continuous delivery pipelines.
• A deep AWS cloud experience in a production environment (e.g., network, security, deployment, automation, serverless technologies).
• Experience and understanding in SRE principles for highly scalable and reliable systems.
• A strong experience with Configuration Management and Infrastructure as a Code.
• Experience designing and implementing end to end CI/CD pipelines
• AWS Cloud experience in the production environment (ie. network, security, deployment, automation, serverless technologies)
• Experience designing and building web application environments on AWS including services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, ELB, ECS etc.
• Experience in deploying of the cloud resources using IaC tools like Terraform.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Cloud Watch, App Dynamics and Splunk. Create CloudWatch rules to capture the apps alerts and send notifications
• Previous experience migrating application teams from on-prem to cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure) preferred.
• Experience with CI/CD frameworks (ie. Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Git)
• Experience in at least one automation and scripting tool experience (ie. Bash, Python, Shell, Perl)
• Experience in designing and building of CIFS and NFS on-premises File share migration using AWS Datasync and VPC endpoints to AWS storage services S3, EFS or FSx.
• Experience in creating build plans for AWS deployment by listing out compute resources, Security groups, LB, target group, NACL and all other components for various environments (Dev, TQA, and Prod etc.)
• Experience maintaining and administering configuration management systems such as Enterprise GitHub.
• Experience maintaining and administering software build systems such as Jenkins.
• Experience maintaining and administering artifact repository systems such as Artifactory.
• Ability to automate workflows through scripting or other technologies such as Ansible or Puppet.
• Expertise in Agile and DevSecOps approaches

Physical Demands and Work Environment

While this position primarily involves sedentary work in an office environment and/or home-office environment, there are some physical demands associated with the role, including:

• Extended periods of sitting and working at a computer workstation.
• Occasional lifting and carrying of equipment or materials weighing up to 20 pounds.
• Occasional travel to client sites or meetings may be required.
• Work may need to be performed in a fast-paced environment requiring quick thinking and rapid judgements.
• Additionally, flexible work arrangements may be available based on business needs.
• Employee will be exposed to a wide variety of clients in differing functions, personalities, and abilities.

About IBR
Imagine Believe Realize, LLC (IBR) is an emerging small business focused on delivering software and systems engineering solutions to government and commercial clients. Our talent acquisition strategy is tailored to career seeking candidates who embrace continuous learning and desire to grow as a professional in the software/systems engineering industry. We strive to enhance our team members ability to thrive in the workplace by creating a proper work/life balance and first-class benefits package that includes:

• Nationwide medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 3 weeks of Paid Time Off and 11 Paid Federal Holidays
• 401k matching
• Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability at no cost to our employees
• Flexible spending accounts and Dependent Care spending accounts
• Wellness incentives
• Reimbursement for professional development and certifications
• Training assistance opportunities

Upon hire and in compliance with federal law, all persons hired are required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States, and to complete the required employment eligibility verification and background check. IBR is a Federal Contractor.

Imagine Believe Realize, LLC is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, age, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.”
Learn more at http://www.teamibr.com

If alternative methods of assistance are needed with the application process, additional contact information has been provided below:

info@teamibr.com
407.459.1830