Site Reliability Engineer

Overview

By Light Professional IT Services LLC readies warfighters and federal agencies with technology and systems engineered to connect, protect, and prepare individuals and teams for whatever comes next. Headquartered in McLean, VA, By Light supports defense, civilian, and commercial IT customers worldwide. Cole Engineering Services (CESI), a By Light company, is recognized as a premier provider of modeling and simulation (M&S) training solutions to the Federal Government and industry.

Since 2004, CESI has been at the forefront of developing, maintaining, and integrating simulation-based training, serious gaming, technical services, training and other support in live, virtual, constructive, and gaming (LVCG) domains. CESI also designs, builds and runs infrastructure, platforms, applications and processes that enable cyber training for the integrated multi-domain force. Our vision is to become a worldwide full spectrum LVCG and cyber training/analysis developer, integrator and services provider.

• Proactively find system deficiencies, prioritize backlogs, and lead the team to correct issues before they impact users.
• Coordinate with development engineering teams and follow program processes to ensure controlled changes to production systems.
• Identify and implement automation, observability, and configuration updates throughout the system.
• Work as part of a fast moving, highly diverse team across multiple projects simultaneously.
• Lead a technical team of engineers, including performing supervisory duties to ensure successful team outcomes.
• Understand complex enterprise IT system architectures (hardware and software) with the ability to pinpoint the team’s focus areas and prioritizations to maximize impact.
• Establish processes and procedures for maintaining infrastructure configuration management across the enterprise, including automated system checks against the configuration managed baseline.
• Effectively manage processes associated with the team’s use of Git repositories to ensure proper configuration management.
• Analyze real-world problems and implement solutions according to corporate and government guidelines, procedures, and industry best practices.
• Assure system stability, accessibility, and proper configuration of assigned technical systems and components; be sensitive and flexible to customer needs.
• Operate in Linux environments as the primary operating system and support Red Hat enterprise services; work with VMware Cloud Foundations and the VMware hypervisor and management stack.
• Operate and maintain a VMware NSX-based SDN; understand Kubernetes and microservice-based applications.
• Author and maintain scripts and automation in a managed Git repository; proactively identify, locate, mitigate, and resolve system issues.
• Document and present performance records and results; document problems/issues via Jira-based ticketing systems.
• Review and update information security management system processes and procedures (data/software).
• Interact with vendors/users/customers and developers to understand needs and operational requirements that impact development and testing activities.
• Examine change implementations and report changes to developers and testers, welcoming feedback for future improvements.
• Ability to solve technical problems involving a variety of integrated software and hardware platforms.
• Knowledge of or experience with the DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF) and NIST or similar security guidelines; assist others with obtaining certifications through guidance and mentoring.

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline such as computer science or information technology from an accredited college or university; additional degrees with accompanied technical leadership experience will be considered.
• Ten years of work experience preferred;
  Security+ certifications are required or must be completed within six months of hire.
• Experience with Ansible (or similar) infrastructure automation to deploy and configure standard baselines for physical devices and in virtual environments (VMware and Linux).
• Experience with scripting for automating tasks, administration, data collection…