Site Reliability Engineer

The Opportunity: At Booz Allen, our Global Defense Sector (GDS) supports the Department of War (DoW) in delivering resilient, mission‑critical digital capabilities. We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to help ensure that essential platforms and services remain secure, available, and high‑performing in complex defense environments. As an SRE, you will blend software engineering and operations to improve system reliability, automate infrastructure, and reduce operational risk. You will partner with platform engineers, developers, cybersecurity teams, and mission stakeholders to build scalable systems, strengthen observability, and drive continuous improvement across the service lifecycle. Your work will directly enable warfighters and mission leaders to access trusted capabilities when and where they are needed most. You Have: 5+ years of experience in an SRE, DevOps, or production engineering role with direct ownership of production reliability and uptime Experience with AWS production across EC2‑based, containerized, and serverless workloads Experience with container orchestration in production, such as Kubernetes, EKS, or ECS, including deployment, scaling, and troubleshooting Experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform or CloudFormation, for provisioning and managing cloud resources and building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins Experience with observability and monitoring with tools, such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, and CloudWatch, including building dashboards and alerting Experience in at least one scripting or programming language, such as Python, Go, or Bash, for automation and tooling, and Linux and Windows administration and troubleshooting in production environments Experience with incident response, root cause analysis, and defining SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets Knowledge of vulnerability scanning and remediation as part of the deployment lifecycle Ability to obtain a Secret clearance Bachelor's degree Nice If You Have: Experience designing for high availability, multi‑AZ/multi‑region, and disaster recovery Experience writing blameless postmortems or after action reports (AAR) deriving root cause, corrective actions and driving reliability improvements across teams so it never happens again Experience with distributed tracing and OpenTelemetry instrumentation Experience with configuration management tooling, such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet Experience with cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices Experience in regulated or compliance‑driven environments, such as FedRAMP, NIST 800‑53, or SOC 1 AWS certification, such as Solutions Architect, SysOps, or DevOps Engineer Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Compensation: At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well‑being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work‑life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full‑time and part‑time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen's benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual's particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract‑specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $86,800.00 to $198,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen's total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date. Commitment to Non-Discrimination: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law. #J-18808-Ljbffr