Job Title: System Engineer IIILocation: Reston VA Onsite Onsite Requirements: LinuxDevOpsProficient with writing services/task automation in Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript, or Java Job Description: We are looking for strong SRE's to take on the challenge of engineering infrastructure solutions for scale and performance while providing strong guarantees of availability to our customers.Your team will have diverse expertise in systems, networking, and software development to provide the stability, performance, and reliability our customers need.You will build tools to address hard operational problems while enabling our service developers to remain agile and deliver feature changes.You will deliver the solutions that directly contribute to our customer's success.A SRE will spend a significant amount of their time doing "ops" related work such as production issues and service on-call.When not working on operations the SRE is working on software engineering tasks such as design and development of systems that increase our reliability, scalability and reduce operational overhead through automation.The ideal SRE candidate is proficient programmer who has large breadth of knowledge and experience including areas such as networking, internet protocols and Linux systems.Our SREs are close partners with service owners in all aspects of service operations and ownership.We have a strong culture of innovation, collaboration and teamwork inspired by the DevOps philosophy.This role will support Client government customers. Responsibilities: Build systems to address hard operational problems such as automation, provisioning/deployment, security, scaling, availability, and resiliency - while enabling our service developers to remain agile and deliver feature changes.Value simplicity and usability as well as security and work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment.Practice sustainable incident response and drive root case analysis.Take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures for our team and org.Deliver solutions that directly contribute to our customer's success.Work closely with development team on maintaining operational health of core compute services for API availability and low latency.Managing and triaging tickets. Driving prioritization and execution of work based on impact.Systems sustainably through mechanisms such as easy to use tooling and automation.Work in concert with service developers to evolve systems/products for better scalability, reliability, and development velocity.Drives new runbooks to help reduce mean triage time of incidents. Prioritize and automate high hit count runbooks. Minimum Qualifications: BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding or equivalent practical experience.Proficient with writing services/task automation in Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript, or Java.Proficient with communication skills (writing, organization, learning exchange)Familiarity with core protocols (DNS, DHCP, HTTP, TCP)Deep knowledge of Linux internals and host-based networkingExpert Linux/Unix performance and stability troubleshooting skills.Familiarity with configuration management solutions such as Chef, Puppet, etc.Experience with devising, managing, and extending monitoring solutions for large scale environments.Experience in database management (Oracle DB, MYSQL, Postgres)Experience in shared file systems (Gluster, ZFS, etc.)Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, a sense of ownership and driveDeep understand of service metrics and alarms through the development of dashboards, service KPIs, alarming systemsExperience working in an operational environment with mission critical tier one services with associated pager duty.5+ years managing large scale, highly distributed, services infrastructures.2+ years managing host virtualization technologies (KVM, Containers, Docker, etc.) Preferred Qualifications: Proficient in coding complex, distributed systems using Python, Ruby, Java, or C/C++Deep knowledge of Networking (TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP, IPSec)Deep focus on building secure Internet facing systems and services in hostile environments.3+ years of experience in production software development with Agile methodologies3+ years managing host, network, or storage virtualization technologies.Expert troubleshooting skillsExpert fleet automation and management solutions.
