Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Location:

Washington DC

Remote:
No

Salary: $120K/Y

Tech M/ Amtrak

Job Summary

We're seeking a seasoned Principal Site Reliability Engineer with a strong focus on pipelines as code, CI/CD, and IaC. You'll play a crucial role in automating and streamlining our processes to enhance efficiency, reliability, and scalability in our software development lifecycle.

This person will work with engineering teams directly in helping them deliver their artifacts quicker to production, and more reliably.

Essential Functions

• Pipelines as Code:
  Develop and maintain robust, scalable, and efficient CI/CD pipelines using code based tools such as Jenkins Pipeline, Github Actions, Git Lab CI, or similar.
• Infrastructure Automation:
  Implement and manage IaC using tools like Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, or Ansible, ensuring a consistent and reliable infrastructure deployment.
• Continuous Integration and Deployment:
  Build and maintain systems that improve the speed and reliability of our CI/CD processes. Life cycle experience in migrating on prem assets to AWS or Azure cloud.
• Monitoring and Optimization:
  Monitor, analyze, and optimize infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for performance and cost efficiency. Refine processes to improve service reliability, efficiency, and system scalability.
• Incident Response and Change Management:
  Experience utilizing the ITIL Framework in compliance with the corporate infrastructure processes, standards including Change and Incident Management, Disaster Recovery, and Security/Government regulatory requirements.
• Collaboration and Leadership:
  Work collaboratively with software development and IT teams to integrate Dev Ops methodologies into their workflows.
• Security and Compliance:
  Ensure that the infrastructure and pipelines adhere to security best practices and compliance standards. Familiar with SAST, DAST, secret scanning, open source scanning, creating Software Bill of Materials (SBOM).
• Documentation and Knowledge Sharing:
  Document processes, systems, and architectures clearly and share knowledge with team members.