Site Reliability Engineer (Temp to Perm)

Description

Come put your Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) skills into action! Leidos has openings for talented SREs to join our team and work real-time hands-on fielding challenges and develop reusable solutions that support our customers in any environment. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the design requirements and implementation of improvements that accelerate the secure delivery, implementation, and sustainment of software in the field. You will automate the buildout of infrastructure in cloud and on-premisises environments to operate Kubernetes clusters and microservices deployments. In this role, you will join dynamic Agile software teams that are singularly focused on providing world-class solutions to our customers in an exciting, collaborative, and inclusive atmosphere. You will be intellectually challenged and provided with a tremendous opportunity for growth in a fast-paced, and fun environment that includes both time in the field and with the software teams.

Primary Responsibilities

• Gather and analyze metrics from operating systems as well as applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding of an microservice enterprise system (cloud and on-premisises)
• Partner with development teams to improve services, diagnostics, and deployment tools through gap identification, concept development, and rigorous testing and release procedures
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
• Create sustainable systems and services through service automation
• Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug mission critical infrastructure on-prem and remote
• Manage on-premisises and private/public cloud environments via infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and hands-on/client site activites.
• Participate in the concept design of reusable infrastructure components for scalable, highly available, secure architectures for cloud native applications.
• Enable the continuous integration and continuous delivery of our diverse suite of software products by applying best practices for infrastructure provisioning, configuration and automated software deployments.
• Continually evaluate fielded system deployments and apply best practices to facilitate continuous improvement that can be applied across teams.
• Work closely with other engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product installation and field service activities (software patches, cyber updates, etc.)
• Develop solutions to complex technical issues and problems that impact multiple area or disciplines.
• Communicate with internal team members across multiple areas and coordinate completion of key deliverables across teams.
• Liaise with external and internal customer stakeholders on technical design decisions and trade-offs and ensure software solution will meet required functional, performance, and SLA thresholds, especially with customer network interfaces.
• Mentor other SREs in the art of building deploying and maintaining production mission critical microservice enterprise systems.
• Resolve roadblocks for the field service team, working collaboratively with the product engineering, technical leadership, and others.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or computer engineering with 4+ years of experience in a relevant field
• Experience delivering entire projects or processes spanning multiple technical areas.
• Experience serving as a technical lead managing large projects or processes.
• Working knowledge of Agile Development and continuous integration and continuous delivery methodologies and tools.
• Expertise with Linux and Windows operating systems, network administration, and networking protocols/functions (e.g., HTTP, TCP, UDP)
• Ability to complete tasking independently with minimal direct supervision.
• Ability to work and collaborate effectively within a multi-disciplined engineering team.
• Ability to travel up to 50% of times to remote locations, mostly in the US along the border to troubleshoot network and software bugs during initial deployment and sustainment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Enterprise Event Brokers Technologies (Kafka, NATS)
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Grafana, Prometheus
• Experience with API Gateways such as ISTIO
• Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD, Flux CD, Fleet or similar
• Professional cybersecurity certification such as Security+, or similar.
• Knowledge of Agile Development methodologies.
• Familiarity with at least one Relational Database Management System (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, etc.).
• Salary Range for this position: $90,000 to $100,000

Original Posting

April 18, 2025

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range

Pay Range $85,150.00 - $153,925.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.