Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Isobar Public Sector is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer. Successful candidates should have senior knowledge and hands-on experience in engineering and an innate drive to improve existing systems and processes, with the creativity to develop novel solutions to evolving challenges. In this role you will be responsible for the availability and reliability of critical platform services and applications, ensuring they meet the requirements of internal and external users.

Isobar works with the Air Force and DoD on some of the most advanced projects in the world today. Our work has real-world impacts, such as facilitating the evacuation of civilians from Afghanistan in the largest single-day military evacuation of civilians in history. Join our team and practice state-of-the-art DevSecOps development on projects that MATTER. Learn the latest technologies and processes and apply them with military-grade cybersecurity.

What You’ll Do

• Ensure that DevSecOps principals are followed through the entire software delivery lifecycle.
• Responsible for the availability and reliability of critical platform services and applications, ensuring they meet the requirements of internal and external users.
• Be available to respond to incidents that impact Platform One availability and provide support for service engineers with customer incidents.
• Run the infrastructure with Chef, Ansible, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, and Kubernetes.
• Build monitoring that alerts on symptoms rather than on outages.
• Document every action so your findings turn into repeatable actions and then into automation.
• Use the GitLab product to run GitLab.com as a first resort and improve the product as much as possible.
• Improve operational processes (such as deployments and upgrades) to make them as boring as possible.
• Design, build and maintain core infrastructure that enables GitLab scaling to support hundreds of thousands of concurrent users.
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.

Who You Are

• A US Citizen and possess a Secret Security Clearance.
• 3 plus years of hands-on experience in a Senior Site Reliability Engineer role.
• 3 plus years of experience providing technical guidance to other engineers.
• Advanced understanding in agile and DevSecOps methodologies.
• Possess and applies a comprehensive knowledge across key tasks and high impact assignments.
• Effectively work with cross-functional teams to get a grasp of a product and/or programs overall state of health.
• Ability to evaluate performance results and recommend major changes affecting short-term project growth and success.
• Expert on the CI/CD process and the overall vision of the program.
• Experience collaborating with business leaders to build and run sustainable production systems.

Who We Are

Isobar Public Sector combines next-level commercial capabilities with deep government expertise to solve complex technical challenges and deliver unparalleled digital transformations. We are an experienced technology services provider that specializes in human-centric design, emerging technology, machine learning, secure cloud solutions and application development. We take pride in our 20+ year heritage of working with the Department of Defense.

Here are some of the benefits that accompany full-time employment at Isobar. 

• We offer flexible time off for vacation and personal time. We believe in treating adults like adults and allowing for open communication between team members and their supervisors to determine proper timing and coverage.
• In addition to 16 recognized holidays, our offices are closed the last week in December. This adds up to 21 paid company holidays in 2023.
• Multiple levels of offerings for medical and dental, including a covered membership fee to exceptional primary care through One Medical.
• Other miscellaneous benefits like Short-Term and Long-Term Disability at no cost, company-covered Life Insurance at double your base salary, access to group legal services, identify theft protection through LifeLock services, etc.
• A generously paid parental leave policy that enables 16 weeks of leave, regardless of gender, at 100% pay.
• Supporting employees pursuing adoption or surrogacy, Isobar will reimburse up to $14,440 in eligible adoption expenses and $25,000 in eligible surrogacy expenses. 
• 401K + company matching: 50% of every dollar you contribute, up to the first 6% you contribute; you are 33% vested after each year of service, becoming fully vested after three years with the company.

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