Senior Site Reliability Engineer

We are currently seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our engineering team at EUCOM in Stuttgart, Germany. The primary goal is to empower our operations staff with a rich feature set, high availability, and stellar performance level of automation and orchestration tools to pursue their missions. Specifically, we are searching for someone who brings fresh ideas, demonstrates a unique and informed viewpoint, and enjoys collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop real-world solutions.

What you will do: 

• Design, implement, and maintain highly reliable and scalable systems
• Proactively identify and address potential performance bottlenecks and single points of failure
• Develop automation framework to manage platform infrastructure and applications at multiple geographically dispersed sites
• Work with operations team members to build use-cases for automation and orchestration within the environment
• Create a road-map for development of tools to build and mature a DevOps environment
• Drive the development and adoption of Infrastructure as Code
• Provide engineering and operational support for multiple software applications and databases
• Automate reporting, measure and optimize system performance and provide after action reports
• Gather and analyze metrics to assist in performance tuning and fault discovery
• Improve reliability and quality through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Drive system design, platform management, and capacity planning
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives

Minimum of 5 years with BS/BA; minimum of 3 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 0 years with PhD, in lieu of degree 9 years of related work experience.

What you will need:

• TESA eligiblity & active U.S. passport
• Active DOD Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain TS/SCI
• Strong ability to program with one or more high level languages, such as Python, Go and PowerShell
• Experience with automation tools such as Ansible, VMware Aria suite, ServiceNow
• Experience with Configuration Management and CI/CD pipeline tools such as Git, Gitlab CI/CD, etc.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and associated tools such as Terraform
• Experience engineering, implementing, and supporting enterprise platforms, virtual infrastructure, storage, and/or network applications Ability to meet DoD 8570 IAT II compliance (e.g. Security+)

Desired qualifications:

• Previous experience in site reliability engineering
• Industry standard certifications (e.g. VCP, CCNP, RHCE)
• Previous success in modernizing operations to utilize automation and orchestration for day-to-day tasks
• Ability to evangelize and gain buy-in to the benefits of automation from a wide range of technical and non-technical audiences
• Previous experience in a functional DevOps environment
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.