Site Reliability Engineer

Introduction
The infrastructure running industries likes transportation energy insurance banking or healthcare is quickly changing as the world’s relationship with technology evolves. Companies have more choices than ever before between on-premise off-premise or a hybrid approach. Our Infrastructure Specialists are responsible for keeping up with these latest and greatest of these changes and using their expertise to deliver solutions that meet the needs of our customers and products.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Octo an IBM company is an industry-leading award-winning provider of technical solutions for the federal government. At Octo we specialize in providing agile software engineering user experience design cloud services and digital strategy services that address government’s most pressing missions. Octo delivers intelligent solutions and rapid results yielding lower costs and measurable outcomes.

Our team is what makes Octo great. At Octo you’ll work beside some of the smartest and most accomplished staff you’ll find in your career. Octo offers fantastic benefits and an amazing workplace culture where you will feel valued while you perform mission critical work for our government. Voted one of the region’s best places to work multiple times Octo is an employer of choice!

You…

As a Site Reliability Engineer with Octo you will join an Agile program in support of the development of a new high priority mission-critical application at the General Services Administration. You are a cross-functional DevOps specialist who provides pipeline and deployment automation and support. You will provide middle-tier support tool management and operating system administration. You are agile fearless enthusiastic empathic and relentless in the pursuit of continuous improvement.

Us…

We were founded as a fresh alternative in the Government Consulting Community and are dedicated to the belief that results are a product of analytical thinking agile design principles and that solutions are built in collaboration with not for our customers. This mantra drives us to succeed and act as true partners in advancing our client’s missions.

The Program Mission…

This program will support the General Services Administration’s Information Technology mission to provide development and operational support of new and existing legacy mission-enabling applications. The team will work to modernize current applications by breaking them down into loosely coupled micro-services and leveraging a continuous integration / continuous delivery pipeline to enable an agile DevOps Strategy.

Education: Bachelor’s Degree and 6+ years of experience or 7+ years of experience.

Location: Remote

Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust is required.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 6+ years overall experience in technology. Government consulting experience desired but not required
• 5+ years of experience working with core AWS services such as S3 EC2 RDS SQS etc…
• 3+ years of experience working with observability / APM systems such as DataDog Cloudwatch etc..
• 5+ years of production experience working with containerized applications Kubernetes and related ecosystem of tools such as StackRox
• 3+ years of experience deploying and managing automated build / release pipelines and CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins SonarQube GitHub
• 5+ years of python development
• 3+ years working in a Linux environment
• 5+ years of experience supporting distributed microservices in Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
• Experience working in an SRE environment
• Experience integrating automated tests and gate checks in to build / release pipelines
• Ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Expertise in Agile development approaches including Scrum and Kanban
• Resourcefulness and ability to independently learn about new tools technologies and best practices
• Ability to rapidly troubleshoot complex technical problems across distributed systems
• Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust is required.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Certifications in AWS / Kubernetes
• Proficiency in additional programming languages such as javascript/typescript (node) java shell scripting
• Managing / working with Postgres and ability to write SQL
• Kafka / MKS
• Elasticsearch
• DynamoDB
• AWS Lambda
• Experience deploying / supporting and working with REST APIs in Kubernetes
• Experience with NIST compliance frameworks and AWS GovCloud Years of Experience: 5+ years of relevant experience preferred