Senior Cloud SRE Engineer — Flight Data Systems

Overview

Noblis supports the FAA in managing large and complex telecommunications and information management programs, delivering enterprise infrastructure services essential to the safe and efficient operation of the world's largest aviation system. This position engages individuals at the intersection of technology and operations to acquire, implement, and manage communications and information solutions advancing the nation's aviation vision.

• Lead the reliability, performance, and operations work streams for the FAA SWIM Flight Data Publication Service (SFDPS) program, defining RMA improvement plans, implementing SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs/SLAs), and leading incident response playbooks.
• Define and implement an SRE program for SFDPS: set SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and runbooks tied to FAA Efficiency Critical objectives.
• Guide performance tuning, capacity planning, and high‑availability design across containerized services.
• Design resilient architectures in the FAA cloud (multi‑AZ, autoscaling, disaster‑recovery patterns).
• Drive CI/CD for safety‑ and compliance‑focused deployments.
• Define security controls and coordinate with Authorizing Officials and security SMEs to meet FedRAMP/FISMA and FAA baselines (hardening, secrets management, vulnerability scanning).
• Lead major incidents and postmortems; ensure permanent corrective actions to raise availability and maintainability.
• Provide architectural guidance, mentor mid and junior engineers, and represent the engineering team to stakeholders.

• Bachelor of Science degree with 9 years of relevant professional experience.
• Associate's degree with 11 years of relevant professional experience.
• Master's degree with 6 years of total relevant experience.
• Strong engineering background in systems reliability, cloud operations, and container platforms.
• Hands‑on experience developing and maintaining Java‑based applications, including debugging, optimization, and refactoring.
• Proficiency in a language suited for high‑throughput systems, such as Java, Go, Python, or .NET for backend development.
• Deep experience with Red Hat/Open Shift, Kubernetes architecture, and container security best practices.
• Proven SRE experience: defining SLIs/SLOs, implementing monitoring/alerting, and incident management.
• Strong IaC and automation experience (Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines).
• Practical experience working with C and/or C++ components, especially in integration with Java or containerization scenarios.
• Proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash, or similar) to automate build, deploy, and cloud operations workflows.
• Hands‑on experience in a FedRAMP/Government cloud environment and familiarity with federal security/compliance controls.
• Experience with at least one major message broker (Apache Kafka, Rabbit
  
  MQ, IBM MQ, Solace, or NATS).
• Experience with data serialization formats: JSON, XML, Avro, or Protobuf.
• Knowledge of messaging protocols like AMQP, MQTT, JMS, or STOMP.
• Understanding of asynchronous messaging patterns, pub‑sub, and point‑to‑point queues.
• Strong communication, leadership, and cross‑team coordination skills;
  Agile experience (Scrum, SAFe) and prior role as technical lead or site reliability lead.
• U.S. citizen or Green Card permanent resident (3+ years of U.S. residency in the last 5 years).
• Ability to obtain and maintain FAA Suitability.

• Certifications:
  
  CKA, RHCE, AWS Certified Dev Ops Engineer (Gov Cloud), CISSP, or similar.
• Prior FAA or ATM systems experience.
• Experience with cloud‑based messaging services (e.g., AWS SNS/SQS, Azure Service Bus, Google Pub/Sub).

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, sex, age, national origin, religion, physical or mental disability, pregnancy/childbirth, veteran or military status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Reasonable accommodations are available for individuals who need them.

USD $ – USD $ per year.