DoD SRE Engineer: Security & Reliability

Overview

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology, Test & Evaluation, Program Mission Support, Engineering & Analysis, and Training.

We are seeking a journeyman-level Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to improve the availability, performance, security, and operational resilience of mission-critical systems in a Department of Defense environment. The SRE will combine systems administration, software engineering, automation, and operational support practices to build reliable and scalable services.

The successful candidate will monitor system health, automate operational processes, investigate incidents, eliminate recurring problems, and collaborate with engineering, cybersecurity, network, and software teams. This position requires full-time, on-site support in Middletown, Rhode Island, with occasional travel to customer or program locations.

• Operate, monitor, and maintain mission-critical applications, services, servers, and supporting infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain service-level indicators, objectives, and operational metrics to measure system reliability.
• Build dashboards, alerts, and automated health checks to identify availability, performance, capacity, and security issues.
• Investigate system incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Automate deployment, configuration, monitoring, recovery, and routine system-administration activities.
• Develop scripts and tools using Python, Bash, Power Shell, or comparable languages.
• Support continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines in accordance with program security and change-control requirements.
• Reduce operational toil by standardizing processes and automating repetitive tasks.
• Support infrastructure provisioning and configuration using approved infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management tools.
• Analyze system performance, capacity, reliability, and resource utilization and recommend improvements.
• Develop and test backup, restoration, failover, disaster-recovery, and continuity-of-operations procedures.
• Participate in release planning, deployment readiness reviews, maintenance activities, and production validation.
• Support vulnerability identification, system hardening, patching, remediation, and security compliance activities.
• Apply applicable DoD cybersecurity requirements and Security Technical Implementation Guides.
• Create and maintain system diagrams, operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, incident reports, and configuration documentation.
• Coordinate with software developers, system administrators, cybersecurity personnel, network engineers, and customer representatives.
• Participate in scheduled maintenance and provide after-hours or on-call support when required.
• Travel occasionally to customer or program sites.

• U.S. Citizenship.
• Active DoD SECRET security clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, cybersecurity, engineering, or a related discipline and approximately three years of relevant experience. Additional relevant experience, education, or technical training may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Journeyman-level experience in site reliability engineering, Dev Sec Ops , systems engineering, software engineering, systems administration, or infrastructure operations.
• Experience administering Linux and/or Windows server environments.
• Experience with scripting or software development using Python, Bash, Power Shell, Go, or a similar language.
• Experience with system monitoring, logging, alerting, performance analysis, and incident response.
• Working knowledge…