SMX · 5 hours ago
Site Reliability Engineer (5009) (US, DC, Tampa, San Antonio) (Secret)
Tampa, FL
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$124K/yr - $206K/yr
5+ years expSMX is dedicated to enabling missions across various sectors, including national security and healthcare. They are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to support the availability, reliability, and performance of IaaS services, while collaborating with various teams to resolve infrastructure issues and improve system reliability through automation.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingCloud Data ServicesCloud SecurityCyber SecurityInformation TechnologyIT ManagementSoftware
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Support the availability, reliability, and performance of IaaS services supporting mission systems
Monitor infrastructure health using metrics, logs, and alerts; respond to and resolve incidents
Perform root-cause analysis for infrastructure and service outages; implement corrective and preventative actions Improve system reliability through automation, standardization, and proactive engineering
Support capacity planning, performance analysis, and scaling of infrastructure services
Maintain and enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions
Participate in incident response, on-call rotations (as required), and post-incident reviews
Collaborate with network, systems, platform, and application teams to resolve cross-stack issues
Support infrastructure lifecycle activities including upgrades, patches, and configuration changes
Apply security best practices and support compliance requirements in a regulated environment
Develop and maintain runbooks, procedures, and operational documentation
Contribute to CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows supporting IaaS services
Participate in Agile ceremonies and operational planning activities
Perform other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Secret clearance
5+ years of professional experience in systems engineering, SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure operations
Strong experience administering Linux systems
Experience supporting on-prem, cloud, or hybrid infrastructure environments
Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems
Strong troubleshooting skills across compute, storage, networking, and OS layers
Experience scripting or automating tasks using Bash, Python, or similar languages
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code concepts and tooling
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Detail-oriented, self-motivated, and able to own issues through resolution
Ability to work on-site at the customer location
Preferred
Experience working on an IaaS or platform operations team
Experience with virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware vSphere)
Experience supporting container platforms (Kubernetes, OpenShift)
Experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GovCloud)
Familiarity with SRE concepts such as SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and toil reduction
Experience with configuration management or automation tools (Ansible, Terraform)
Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
Experience operating systems in government or secure environments
Experience with incident management and operational readiness reviews
Benefits
Health insurance
Paid leave
Retirement
Company
SMX
SMX is a provider of information technology (IT), services, and advanced engineering with a focus on Cloud Solutions.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Peter LaMontagne
Chief Executive Officer
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