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By Light Professional IT Services · 4 days ago

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Orlando, FL

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

By Light Professional IT Services LLC readies warfighters and federal agencies with technology and systems engineered to connect, protect, and prepare individuals and teams for whatever comes next. The Lead Site Reliability Engineer will lead a technical team to ensure maximum uptime of a large private and hybrid cloud environment, overseeing infrastructure, hypervisors, and applications while fostering customer relationships and addressing system deficiencies proactively.

GovernmentInformation ServicesInformation Technology

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Lead a technical team of SREs to ensure maximum uptime of a large private and hybrid cloud environment

Oversight includes all core infrastructure, hypervisors, Kubernetes, and applications

Ensure continuity of operations for end users

Proactively find system deficiencies, prioritize backlogs, and lead the team to correct issues before they impact users

Coordinate with development engineering teams and follow program processes to ensure controlled changes to production systems

Identify and implement automation, observability, and configuration updates throughout the system

Work as part of a fast moving highly diverse team across multiple projects simultaneously

Must have experience leading a technical team of engineers, including performing supervisory duties to ensure successful team outcomes

Must be able to understand complex enterprise IT system architectures (hardware and software) with the ability to pinpoint the team’s focus areas and prioritizations to maximize impact

Must be a self-starter in a fast-paced environment and able to work with a multi-faceted technical team of engineers with a diverse set of skills at differing levels of experience

Establish processes and procedures for maintaining infrastructure configuration management across the enterprise to include automated system checks against the configuration managed baseline

Must be able to effectively manage processes associated with the team’s use of Git repositories to ensure proper configuration management

Analyzes real world problems and implements solutions according to corporate and government guidelines, procedures, and industry best practices

Assures system stability, accessibility, and proper configuration of assigned technical systems and components

Be sensitive and flexible to the needs and requirements of the customer

Must be comfortable with Linux system management, as this is the primary operating system, as well as other Red Hat enterprise services

Experience with VMware Cloud Foundations, and the overarching VMware hypervisor and management stack and services

Operate, and maintain physical switches, routers, IPS, IDS devices

Operate, and maintain a VMware NSX based SDN

Understand Kubernetes and micro-service based applications

Must be able to author and maintain scripts and automation in a managed Git repository

Proactively identify, locate, mitigate, and resolve system issues

Document and present performance records and results

Document problems/issues via Jira based ticketing system/tracking log

Review and update all information security management system process and procedures (data/software)

Qualification

Linux system managementKubernetesVMware Cloud FoundationsTechnical team leadershipConfiguration managementScriptingAnsibleGit repositoriesProblem-solvingInterpersonal skillsCommunication skillsDocumentation

Required

Must have experience leading a technical team of engineers, including performing supervisory duties to ensure successful team outcomes

Must be able to understand complex enterprise IT system architectures (hardware and software) with the ability to pinpoint the team's focus areas and prioritizations to maximize impact

Must be a self-starter in a fast-paced environment and able to work with a multi-faceted technical team of engineers with a diverse set of skills at differing levels of experience

Establish processes and procedures for maintaining infrastructure configuration management across the enterprise to include automated system checks against the configuration managed baseline

Must be able to effectively manage processes associated with the team's use of Git repositories to ensure proper configuration management

Analyzes real world problems and implements solutions according to corporate and government guidelines, procedures, and industry best practices

Assures system stability, accessibility, and proper configuration of assigned technical systems and components

Be sensitive and flexible to the needs and requirements of the customer

Must be comfortable with Linux system management, as this is the primary operating system, as well as other Red Hat enterprise services

Experience with VMware Cloud Foundations, and the overarching VMware hypervisor and management stack and services

Operate, and maintain physical switches, routers, IPS, IDS devices

Operate, and maintain a VMware NSX based SDN

Understand Kubernetes and micro-service based applications

Must be able to author and maintain scripts and automation in a managed Git repository

Proactively identify, locate, mitigate, and resolve system issues

Document and present performance records and results

Document problems/issues via Jira based ticketing system/tracking log

Review and update all information security management system process and procedures (data/software)

Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline such as computer science or information technology from an accredited college or university. Will consider additional degrees with accompanied technical leadership experience

Ten years of work experience preferred

Security+ certifications are required or must be completed within six months of hire

Preferred

Experience with Ansible (or similar) infrastructure automation to deploy and configure standard baselines for physical devices and in a virtual environment (VMware and Linux)

Utilize scripting for automating tasks, administration, data collection and reporting. This job requires the ability to write, test, debug, deploy, and maintain scripts

Ability to audit and report system and performance logs

Ability to automate, administer and maintain the environment through configuration management, version control, and backups with the use of scripting

Ability to respond professionally, effectively, and efficiently to service requests

Ability to prioritize multiple tasks, projects, and demands

Ability to research and/or implement new technologies

Effective interpersonal and communications skills

Professionally convey system-wide performance information routinely via tools such as PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, etc

Train others to perform similar design and administrative tasks

Interact with vendors/users/customers and developers to understand needs and operational requirements that will impact development and testing activities

Examine any relevant change implementation, then report the changes to developers and testers welcoming feedback for future improvements

Ability to solve technical problems involving a variety of integrated software and hardware platforms

Knowledge of or experience with the DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) or similar best practices and security guidelines

Ability to assist others with getting certifications, such as providing guidance, mentoring, sandboxes, or cooperation