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About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton is a management and technology consulting firm that provides analytics, digital, engineering, and cybersecurity solutions primarily to U.S. government agencies and commercial clients. Industry: Management & Technology Consulting
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As a Site Reliability Engineer, Lead, you will ensure the reliability, performance, scalability, and security of critical production systems and platforms across cloud and air-gapped environments. You will lead the design and implementation of observability, automation, incident response, and operational best practices while partnering with DevOps, infrastructure, and security teams to reduce risk. Your daily work involves performing root cause analysis, capacity planning, and developing technical tools to debug deployment issues within specific platforms. The role requires expertise in Linux systems administration, networking fundamentals within AWS, Python scripting, and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Terragrunt. You will utilize Prometheus, Grafana, the ELK stack, and Kubernetes for managing containerized workloads. Essential skills include experience with OpenTelemetry, Jenkins, Git, Docker, and knowledge of distributed systems to maintain highly available services in complex environments.
Ensure the reliability, performance, scalability, and security of critical production systems and platforms.
Design and implement observability, automation, incident response, and operational best practices across cloud and air-gapped environments.
Conduct root cause analysis and perform capacity planning to ensure high availability for services.
Develop technical tools to debug problems occurring during the deployment of applications within specific platforms.
Evaluate the health, stability, and reliability of systems in partnership with development and infrastructure teams.
Implement SRE practices including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and incident management protocols.
Manage Kubernetes environments and oversee containerized workloads across distributed microservices architectures.
What we're looking for
TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.
Must have 8+ years of experience with monitoring, logging, and observability platforms like Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack.
Must have 8+ years of experience with Linux systems administration and networking fundamentals within AWS.
Experience with Python scripting and automation is required.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Terragrunt is required.
Knowledge of Kubernetes administration, troubleshooting, and operations is required.
A Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering are required, or 12+ years of experience in those fields without a degree.
Ability to obtain a Security+, SSCP, CCNA-Security, or GSEC certification within 6 months of start date.
Site Reliability Engineering
Python
Java
Spring Boot
.Net
AI
CI/CD
Container Orchestration
AWS
Observability
Monitoring
Telemetry
Networking
System Architecture
SDLC