Striveworks is hiring a
Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Site Reliability Engineer at Striveworks' professional services division. The role involves maintaining, optimizing, and enhancing on-premises and cloud computing environments, executing technical aspects of implementation projects, ensuring seamless integration, customization, and configuration of software, incident response, and initial triage of critical system faults. The anticipated base pay range is $125,000-$150,000/year with a hybrid work environment (~30% remote and ~70% onsite) but demands proximity to a DoD SCIF.

Requirements

• 2+ years of direct, hands-on experience in: Microservice deployment in Kubernetes, Helm Chart and Kustomizations development/deployment, Python programming, Automation and infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible), Cloud infrastructure AWS, Azure, GCP, or OpenStack
• Understands networking concepts, security, and disaster recovery best practices; strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues
• Communication and collaboration skills; works effectively in a cross-functional team environment
• Proficient understanding of Microservice architecture and the ‘Twelve-Factor App’
• Active Top Secret security clearance

Responsibilities

• Maintaining Striveworks’ software deployments both on-prem and with various cloud service providers, using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) methodologies
• Automation of infrastructure-as-code for standing up virtual machines, containers, services, and other infrastructure, leaning on expertise deploying custom Kubernetes clusters in AWS, Azure, GCP, on-premises, or hybrid cloud environments
• Working with platform developers to define requirements and build solutions for customer use cases of the platform
• Software deployments to unclassified, CUI, Secret, and Top Secret networks
• Incident response and initial triage of critical system faults

Preferred Qualifications

• Deploying, maintaining, or contributing to CNCF projects
• Proficiency with U.S. federal information system security policies, including Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, CMMC, ICD 503
• DevSecOps/DevOps and CI/CD for administration and deployment of GPU-enabled servers
• Network-Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Networks (SAN) technologies
• Deep knowledge of DevOps principles and practices for deploying and managing service mesh in cloud environments
• Experience with both Blue-green and Canary deployment strategies
• Designing, managing, and optimizing workloads across multiple cloud providers
• Kubernetes and Cloud-Native applications and services in Disconnected, Intermittent, Low-bandwidth (DIL) environments
• DoD 8570 IAT II certification (Security+ CE); Proficient with security automation and familiarity with API Security, Container Security, and Cloud Security

Benefits

• Top-of-market salary and total compensation
• Generous equity plan
• Health/vision/dental insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• Parental leave