Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Company:

The Boeing Company

The Boeing Company is looking for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to join the Air Dominance Site Reliability Engineering team located in Berkeley MO.

We are seeking a highly talented motivated and creative technical leader responsible for the reliability strategy architecture operational maturity and long-term technical direction of mission-critical developer platforms used by Air Dominance engineering teams.

This role will provide technical leadership across GitLab GitLab CI/CD runners Jira Confluence PostgreSQL related software delivery tools such as Artifactory and SonarQube and the supporting infrastructure automation monitoring backup recovery and security controls required to operate these services. The selected candidate will define standards guide architecture decisions mentor engineers lead complex technical investigations and partner with program leadership and stakeholders to ensure developer tooling remains secure reliable scalable and supportable.

Position Responsibilities:

• Define and lead the Site Reliability Engineering technical strategy for GitLab CI/CD runners Jira Confluence PostgreSQL Artifactory SonarQube and related developer tooling infrastructure

• Establish platform reliability architecture operational standards SLIs SLOs SLAs KPIs error budgets observability patterns capacity models backup strategies and disaster recovery approaches

• Serve as the senior technical authority for complex reliability performance scalability integration database automation and security-related platform decisions

• Lead architecture and design reviews for developer tooling infrastructure CI/CD runner topology PostgreSQL operations cloud-based and on-premises infrastructure monitoring alerting access controls and platform integrations

• Drive automation Infrastructure as Code Ansible configuration management and repeatable operational patterns that reduce toil and improve reliability

• Guide major upgrades migrations lifecycle planning patch strategies recovery planning and technical roadmaps for supported platforms

• Lead the most complex incidents and technical investigations including root cause analysis corrective action planning and systemic reliability improvements

• Mentor and technically guide SREs in operational excellence troubleshooting automation secure administration and architectural thinking

• Partner with program leadership cybersecurity infrastructure software engineering database networking suppliers customers and other stakeholders

• Identify platform risks technical debt capacity constraints single points of failure compliance concerns and operational gaps then drive remediation plans

• Define collect analyze and refine software delivery and platform reliability metrics for team execution management visibility and continuous improvement

• Lead standards for provisioning platform scaling configuration management monitoring troubleshooting and software delivery tool integration

• Develop and maintain architecture documentation design patterns standards operational readiness criteria and executive technical briefings

• Influence support models maintenance strategies escalation paths and investment priorities based on mission impact and operational risk

• Lead efforts to operationally field higher-quality end-to-end system software more frequently

• Participate in after-hours support and escalation for urgent or mission-impacting issues as required

This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to workonsiteat one of the listed location options.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience):

• Active Secret U.S. Security Clearance. (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active.)

• Ability to obtain access to Special Access Programs (SAP)

• Bachelors Degree

• 14 years of experience with DevOps Site Reliability Engineering software engineering and/or cloud engineering

• Experience with GitLab Azure DevOps and CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

• Experience with technical leadership

• Experience with designing and implementing scalable computing infrastructure for data solutions including cloud architectures (AWS Azure Google Cloud)

• 5 years of experience conducting root cause analysis of design failures

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology) chemistry physics mathematics data science or computer science and 14 years of related work experience or Bachelors Degree and 18 years of directly related work experience or 22 years of related relevant experience

• Experience communicating technical strategy risk tradeoffs and recommendations to senior technical and program leadership

• Deep experience administering or architecting GitLab GitLab CI/CD GitLab runners or comparable enterprise source control and CI/CD platforms

• Deep experience administering or architecting Jira Confluence or other Atlassian products in an enterprise environment

• Deep experience with PostgreSQL architecture and operations including backup and recovery replication performance tuning storage planning maintenance and high-availability patterns

• Experience with AWS Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as Code Ansible configuration management containers Docker Kubernetes virtualization artifact management secrets management and secure software delivery practices

• Experience administering or architecting Artifactory SonarQube Jenkins or similar software delivery tools

• Experience designing observability platforms alerting strategies SLO frameworks service health dashboards and operational reporting

• Experience supporting Air Dominance classified air-gapped or highly regulated engineering environments

• Experience developing disaster recovery strategy continuity of operations plans recovery time objectives recovery point objectives and restore validation programs

• Experience guiding cybersecurity hardening vulnerability remediation audit readiness privileged access controls and compliance-driven operations

• Ability to obtain Security certification

• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence across engineering teams customers suppliers cybersecurity infrastructure and program stakeholders

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to produce architecture documentation executive briefings technical roadmaps and decision records

Conflict of Interest:

Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Companys Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeingis a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana cocaine opioids amphetamines PCP and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

CodeVue Coding Challenge:

To be considered for this position you will be required to complete a technical assessment as part of the selection process. Failure to complete the assessment will remove you from consideration.

Pay & Benefits:

At Boeing we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.

The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs generally including health insurance flexible spending accounts health savings accounts retirement savings plans life and disability insurance programs anda number ofprograms that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location date of hire and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications as well as market and business considerations.

Summary Pay Range: $198050 - $267950

Language Requirements:

Not Applicable

Education:

Bachelors Degree or Equivalent

Relocation:

This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.

Export Control Requirement:

This position must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements. To meet U.S. export control compliance requirements a U.S. Person as defined by 22 C.F.R. 120.62 is required. U.S. Person includes U.S. Citizen U.S. National lawful permanent resident refugee or asylee.

Safety Sensitive:

This is not a Safety Sensitive Position.

Security Clearance:

This position requires an active U.S. Secret Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required). (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active)

Visa Sponsorship:

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Contingent Upon Award Program

This position is not contingent upon program award

Shift:

Shift 1 (United States of America)

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