Site Reliability Engineer

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Striveworks you will be challenged - and trusted - on day one to take ownership of maintaining, optimizing, and enhancing our on-premises computing environments. We are seeking a skilled and motivated  SRE to play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our on-premise (on-prem) platform instances. If you are passionate about combining software engineering and systems operations to build stable and scalable systems, this role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to our mission.

You are right for this challenge if you value and possess technical expertise and you enjoy pushing the boundaries of your own capabilities. You will be responsible for maintaining Striveworks’ software deployments both on-prem and in various cloud service providers—using Infrastructure-as-Code methodologies. You will be working with a team of software engineers and data scientists helping them integrate their work into functional AI solutions. 

Day-to-day Responsibilities:

• Maintain resilient, scalable, and efficient on-premises software deployments
• Collaborate closely with software engineering, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to bridge the gap between development and operations
• Monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot system performance, availability, and incidents to ensure seamless operations
• Develop and implement automation tools, scripts, and processes to enhance system deployment, configuration management, and infrastructure provisioning
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response to swiftly address and resolve critical system issues

A Site Reliability Engineer on the Engagements team, is directly engaged with the customer, predominantly with their networking and platform management teams, to sustain the Chariot platform in air-gapped computing environments. As a Site Reliability Engineer at Striveworks, you will have a direct contribution to the success of mission-critical systems within National Security and Commercial clients. You will have the opportunity to receive mentorship from a team of diversely experienced and talented engineers to realize your passion for technology, optimize your experiences and training. Your ideas are welcome and invited on day one; there is no smartest person at Striveworks. You will be expected to wear multiple hats, step into vacuums where more work is needed, and will be given the breadth to explore new technologies. You will work side-by-side daily with software engineers, data scientists and end users of our products, learning from them so that functional decisions become second nature to you.

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $120,000–$155,000/year. Striveworks’ total compensation package includes a competitive base salary, annual performance-based equity grants, and a lucrative yearly cash bonus. 

The work environment for this position is hybrid with 50-90% of time onsite at our customer locations at Fort Liberty, NC or MacDill AFB, FL. 

We spend a lot of time during our hiring process talking about shared values. 

Why? We passionately believe that fostering an environment where people can self-actualize and pursue greatness is the best way to achieve our individual and collective goals. 

What does this mean for you? We want to provide you with the conditions to thrive in an environment where you can achieve your goals, where you know the team shares your goals, and where you make and accept decisions for the team with humility. At Striveworks, we want your say/do ratio to be 1 and to know that being part of a top-tier team means that there is no smartest person in the room. If that makes sense, we are already on the same page. 

Qualifications:

• Active Top Secret U.S. security clearance
• 4+ years total experience in any IT career field; 1+ years experience in the following:
• Deploying infrastructure in a cloud environment such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or OpenStack
• Virtualization and/or containerization solutions; e.g. OpenStack, Kubernetes, Docker, VMware, KVM, or HyperV
• Ansible or another configuration management solution such as Chef, Puppet, or Salt
• Writing and deploying Helm Charts
• Deploying a web-based application to a DoD/IC air-gapped network
• Automation and infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)
• Deploying infrastructure in a cloud such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or OpenStac
• Programming in Python or other interpretive language; Shell scripting languages (Bash and/or Powershell)
• Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, System Administrator, or similar role managing on-premises computing environments
• Understanding of networking concepts, security best practices, and disaster recovery strategies
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues

We are very interested in candidates who possess the above qualifications, and we appreciate and consider the addition of:

• Automation and Infrastructure as Code
• DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, or automated security scanning
• Network technologies:  VLANs, switches, routers, firewalls, VPN
• Supporting enterprise or customer-facing information systems in a DoD environment
• GPU-equipped servers
• U.S. federal information system security policies, including Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, CMMC v2

• Top-of-market salary and total compensation
• Generous equity plan
• Health/vision/dental insurance
• Flexible PTO
• Parental leave

The world has looked to data analytics to bridge the gap between floods of data and the struggle to use that data effectively to make timely, impactful decisions. Today, most organizations are awash in analytics that “aren’t quite right”—models that were developed too generally, or too slowly, to be effective in dynamic, fast-paced environments. Striveworks is simplifying ModelOps with a powerful and extensible platform that instantiates the data analytic process as code. 

Striveworks is trusted by leading Fortune 500 firms as well as leaders in the public sector as a primary solution for managing model development, monitoring, and governance—and ensuring those models solve the real challenges their organizations face.

Striveworks’ Chariot platform enables users to turn their own production data into models and turn models into production systems. Uniquely, as you train, test, deploy, and use models, our lineage system enables you to track not only the “upstream” provenance of model and data sources, but also the “downstream” usage of the resultant model inferences. Combining this with a principled experience for data and model development, Chariot gives our customers in highly regulated industries an unmatched governance solution over the top of a performant ModelOps platform. 

Striveworks is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, belief, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity or expression), national origin, social or ethnic origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor. Striveworks will not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind.

If you require assistance or a reasonable accommodation in the application process, please contact Operations at [email protected]

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