Site Reliability Engineer (5009) (US, DC, Tampa, San Antonio) (Secret)

Overview Site Reliability Engineer (5009) (US, DC, Tampa, San Antonio) (Secret). Location: Tampa, FL; United States; Washington, DC. Work will be performed in Colorado. Please apply if you have interest in relocating to Colorado. The SMX Space and Intelligence (S&I) Business Unit (BU) is on the ground floor across the future remote sensing ecosystem for all orbital regimes (LEO, MEO, HEO, and GEO). We build, integrate, and operationally support our customer\'s emerging space-ground systems to include real-time data processing frameworks, sensor data processing, and data visualization. We are teamed with the most passionate companies in industry, dedicated to bringing best-of-breed capabilities to address our customers most pressing needs. Responsibilities Support the availability, reliability, and performance of IaaS services supporting mission systems Monitor infrastructure health using metrics, logs, and alerts; respond to and resolve incidents Perform root-cause analysis for infrastructure and service outages; implement corrective and preventative actions Improve system reliability through automation, standardization, and proactive engineering Support capacity planning, performance analysis, and scaling of infrastructure services Maintain and enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions Participate in incident response, on-call rotations (as required), and post-incident reviews Collaborate with network, systems, platform, and application teams to resolve cross-stack issues Support infrastructure lifecycle activities including upgrades, patches, and configuration changes Apply security best practices and support compliance requirements in a regulated environment Develop and maintain runbooks, procedures, and operational documentation Contribute to CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows supporting IaaS services Participate in Agile ceremonies and operational planning activities Perform other duties as assigned Required Skills & Experience 5+ years of professional experience in systems engineering, SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure operations Experience supporting on-prem, cloud, or hybrid infrastructure environments Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems Strong troubleshooting skills across compute, storage, networking, and OS layers Experience scripting or automating tasks using Bash, Python, or similar languages Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code concepts and tooling Strong verbal and written communication skills Detail-oriented, self-motivated, and able to own issues through resolution Ability to work on-site at the customer location Desired Skills & Experience Experience working on an IaaS or platform operations team Experience with virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware vSphere) Experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GovCloud) Familiarity with SRE concepts such as SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and toil reduction Experience with configuration management or automation tools (Ansible, Terraform) Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar) Experience operating systems in government or secure environments Experience with incident management and operational readiness reviews Application Details Application Deadline: March 30, 2026 Salary: The proposed salary for this position is $123,900 - $206,400 USD About SMX & Equal Opportunity SMX is an Equal Opportunity employer including disabilities and veterans. Selected applicants may be subject to a background investigation and/or education verification. SMX does not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization or immigration related support for this position. Voluntary Self-Identification Voluntary self-identification of veteran status and disability status is requested for government reporting purposes. Information provided is confidential and will not be used in hiring decisions. Contact & Compliance Selected applicants may be subject to background checks and/or education verification as required by contract. This posting is for a specific role and location; relocation considerations may apply. #J-18808-Ljbffr