Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Description

SAIC is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join in our team’s effort to win new work with the General Services Administration (GSA.)

This role is contingent on award of program to SAIC.

Requirements: 

• Ability to program (structured and OO) with one or more high level languages, such as Python, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and JavaScript.
• Experience with cloud storage technologies as well as dynamic resource management frameworks (Mesos, Kubernetes, Yarn).
• A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks.
• Experience with relevant software applications such as word processing and spreadsheets.
• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health.
• Build software and systems to manage/operate platform infrastructure and applications.
• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions.
• Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve.
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large, distributed software applications
• Ensure Production readiness for releases which includes Performance/Usability Testing.
• Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding.
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures.
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning.
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts.
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives.
• Production incidents RCAs and Conducting post-incident reviews.
• Optimizing on-call rotations and processes.
• Constant upkeep of documentation and runbooks.

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s/Masters degree in computer science or other highly technical, scientific discipline.
• 5+ years of experience with Cloud Architecture, preferably AWS.
• 10+ years of experience with Operations of enterprise systems with over million users.
• 10+ years of experience with application development.
• 5+ years of experience in DevSecOps.
• 3+ years of experience with microservices.
• 5+ years of experience leading teams.
• 3+ years of experience with agile Role & Responsibilities.
• Candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Clearance based on the GSA regulations.

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.

Overview

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

We are approximately 24,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.4 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.