Scientific Research Corporation

Role Description The Site Reliability Engineer will support a premier Navy program team in reviewing, assessing, and improving the reliability, resilience, observability, and operational maintainability of next generation Navy afloat architecture. The candidate will work with technical staff, Navy stakeholders, cybersecurity teams, infrastructure engineers, software teams, and operational representatives to ensure that SRE principles are considered early in architecture, design, integration, test, deployment, and sustainment planning. - Reviewing proposed Navy afloat architecture designs for reliability, availability, scalability, maintainability, cybersecurity alignment, and operational supportability - Identifying architecture and implementation risks that could affect system uptime, Fleet usability, maintainability, troubleshooting, patching, monitoring, recovery, or sustainment - Defining and recommending SRE‑aligned practices for Navy afloat systems, including service level objectives, operational metrics, monitoring requirements, alerting thresholds, error budget concepts, incident response workflows, and reliability reporting - Assisting engineering teams in translating operational reliability requirements into technical design considerations, implementation standards, and sustainment procedures - Evaluating system designs against real‑world afloat constraints, including limited bandwidth, intermittent connectivity, shipboard infrastructure limits, cybersecurity controls, maintenance windows, disconnected operations, and mission availability requirements - Supporting development of observability strategies, including logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, alerts, health checks, and performance monitoring - Recommending automation opportunities to reduce manual operational workload, improve repeatability, reduce configuration drift, and improve deployment and sustainment reliability - Supporting root cause analysis for operational issues, test findings, integration failures, or architecture concerns, then converting findings into corrective actions and long‑term reliability improvements - Assisting with reliability‑focused documentation, including architecture review comments, risk assessments, operational concepts, monitoring plans, sustainment recommendations, incident response workflows, and executive‑level technical summaries - Working with cybersecurity stakeholders to ensure reliability recommendations also support DoD cybersecurity requirements, including STIG compliance, vulnerability management, audit logging, privileged access controls, and continuous monitoring - Participating in technical working groups, architecture reviews, design reviews, test planning sessions, and customer briefings - Supporting planning for deployment, installation, test, checkout, transition to operations, and sustainment handoff activities - Helping define operational readiness criteria for new or updated afloat capabilities before Fleet deployment - Providing recommendations that balance modern SRE practices with Navy operational constraints, cybersecurity mandates, lifecycle supportability, and mission execution needs - Communicating clearly with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders, including government sponsors, program managers, engineers, cybersecurity staff, and operational users FILLING THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON FUNDING #LI-JC1 Qualifications - Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance - U.S. citizenship required due to DoD contract and clearance requirements - Ability to support a remote eligible role with coordination to the primary office in Charleston, South Carolina - Ability to obtain CSWF / DoD 8140 aligned IAT Level II qualification within the required contract or program timeline - Current or ability to obtain one qualifying IAT Level II certification, typically including one of the following: - CompTIA Security+ CE - CompTIA CySA+ - GIAC GSEC - ISC2 SSCP - EC-Council CND - Five or more years of experience in one or more of the following areas: - Site reliability engineering - Systems engineering - Platform engineering - DevSecOps - Network or infrastructure operations - Cloud, hybrid cloud, or enterprise hosting environments - Mission critical IT operations - Practical experience with Linux and Windows server environments, including system hardening, patching, configuration, troubleshooting, logging, and operational sustainment - Working knowledge of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, switching, firewalls, load balancing, VPNs, segmentation, and network troubleshooting - Experience designing, reviewing, or operating highly available systems with attention to uptime, resilience, observability, recoverability, and operational risk - Experience with monitoring, alerting, log aggregation, performance analysis, and incident response - Understanding of SRE principles, including: - Service level indicators - Service level objectives - Error budgets - Toil reduction - Automation first operations - Blameless post incident review - Capacity planning - Reliability risk assessment - Experience supporting cybersecurity compliance in regulated environments, preferably DoD or federal environments - Familiarity with vulnerability management, STIGs, security baselines, patch compliance, privileged access, audit logging, and continuous monitoring - Ability to evaluate architecture and design decisions for operational reliability, maintainability, cybersecurity posture, and lifecycle sustainment - Ability to translate technical findings into clear written recommendations for government sponsors, engineering teams, cybersecurity stakeholders, and program leadership - Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document technical risks, operational impacts, and recommended mitigations Requirements - Prior experience as an SRE in Fortune 100 or similar large scale environments - Active DoD Secret clearance - Experience supporting Navy, NIWC, NAVWAR, Fleet, tactical, afloat, or shipboard systems - Experience with afloat or disconnected operations where bandwidth, latency, hardware constraints, cybersecurity requirements, and operational availability drive architecture decisions - Experience reviewing or contributing to next generation architecture for Navy, DoD, tactical edge, or mission critical platforms - Experience with DoD Risk Management Framework, Authority to Operate support, continuous monitoring, vulnerability remediation, POA&Ms, STIG implementation, and cyber inspection readiness - Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Rancher, or similar platforms - Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, PowerShell DSC, or similar technologies - Experience with CI/CD pipelines and secure software delivery using tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Nexus, Artifactory, or similar platforms - Experience with observability platforms and tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK / Elastic Stack, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, New Relic, or similar capabilities - Experience with cloud or hybrid environments, including AWS, Azure, Azure Government, GovCloud, private cloud, VMware, or other enterprise hosting platforms - Experience with backup, disaster recovery, fail-over planning, continuity of operations, and data protection for mission critical systems - Experience performing root cause analysis and converting incident findings into architectural, operational, or automation improvements - Familiarity with Zero Trust principles, identity and access management, certificate management, privileged access management, endpoint security, and secure remote administration - Familiarity with Navy change control, configuration management, test events, installation readiness reviews, deployment planning, or Fleet Readiness Change Board style processes - Experience working directly with government customers, system owners, cybersecurity teams, network engineers, software teams, and operational users - One or more of the following certifications: - Active Security+ CE or higher DoD 8140 / IAT Level II qualifying certification - CompTIA CySA+ - ISC2 SSCP - GIAC GSEC - GIAC GCIH - GIAC GCIA - GIAC GCWN or GCUX - Red Hat Certified System Administrator - Red Hat Certified Engineer - Certified Kubernetes Administrator - AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - AWS Solutions Architect - Microsoft Azure Administrator - VMware Certified Professional - Cisco CCNA or CCNP - ITIL Foundation - Certified ScrumMaster or SAFe certification, where relevant to program execution Benefits - Medical, dental, and vision plans - 401(k) with a company match - Life insurance - Vacation and sick paid time off accruals starting at 10 days of vacation and 5 days of sick leave annually - 11 paid holidays - Tuition reimbursement - A work environment that encourages excellence Company Description Scientific Research Corporation is an advanced information technology and engineering company that provides innovative products and services to government and private industry, as well as independent institutions. At the core of our capabilities is a seasoned team of highly skilled engineers and scientists with multidisciplinary backgrounds. This team is challenged daily to provide cutting edge technology solutions to our clients.

Role Description This person could work onsite in Alexandria, VA, St. Paul, Minnesota, or Full-Time Remote if not open to relocating. We are seeking an experienced Test Facility Lead Engineer to provide comprehensive technical oversight for the design, integration, operation, and maintenance of new and existing large-scale hypersonic ground test capabilities while providing technical leadership to ensure that once functional, the facility and its systems operate safely, reliably, and in alignment with performance requirements. The ideal candidate will be a transonic and supersonic wind tunnel subject matter expert with strong documentation and communication skills, personal accountability, and a desire to work as part of a collaborative team. This role is a critical part of the government’s oversight team, serving as the technical lead and trusted technical advisor for a cutting-edge hypersonic T&E infrastructure project. You will be responsible for the government-side oversight of a state-of-the-art high-speed / transonic and supersonic wind tunnel test capability. Under the oversight of the Chief Engineer and in coordination with other Test Facility Lead Engineers and the Construction Lead, the candidate will: - Providing Technical Oversight & Contractor Evaluation - Serving as the primary technical advisor to the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR), overseeing the design-build prime contractor’s design and execution of a wind tunnel test capability. - Serving as the authoritative technical Point of Contact (POC), providing critical feedback and strategic guidance to the contractor to ensure designs align with government safety, reliability, and performance requirements. - Leveraging deep expertise of wind tunnel design, wind tunnel operations, and wind tunnel test planning to identify, own, manage, and communicate technical risk, developing mitigation plans in partnership with the Assistant Project Manager (APM). - Representing the government program office while attending contractor-chaired Integrated Product Team (IPT) meetings, Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs), technical design reviews, and milestone reviews applying subject matter expertise to provide insights and communicate government questions and concerns to the contractor. - Conducting detailed technical reviews of contractor-developed designs, drawings, specifications, and analyses such as Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). - Validating contractor technical findings by performing independent verification analyses and coordinating with external SMEs, FFRDCs, UARCs, etc., to assess risk and inform government decisions. - Possessing and applying a strong safety ethos, leading and contributing to safety reviews and audits. - Contributing to programmatic planning by developing Statements of Work (SOW), Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCEs), and facility requirement documentation. - Collaborating seamlessly within a highly matrixed team of mechanical, electrical, aerothermal, controls and instrumentation, and systems engineers, program management, program controls, physical security, cybersecurity, and construction professionals. - Reporting - Translating complex project data into decision-ready insights; lead executive briefings to present technical summaries, risk assessments, and recommendations to support government action and decisions. - Adhering to, and reviewing internal and external work products for adherence to administrative and sensitive data protection guidelines. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline and 10+ years of experience in the aerospace or defense industry. - Direct experience with the design, construction, operation, and/or modernization of large-scale Test and Evaluation (T&E) facilities such as wind tunnels, arc jets, rocket stands, turbine cells, etc. - Proven ability to conduct comprehensive technical reviews and assessments, resolve complex technical issues, and oversee project phases from initial design through closeout. - Exceptional communication skills with a proven ability to translate complex engineering data into decision-ready briefings for government and contractor stakeholders. - Proven tactical project management skills with a demonstrated ability to drive accountability, manage action plans, and maintain project momentum. - Experience integrating complex systems. - Knowledge of engineering principles related to mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and control systems. - Proficiency in Microsoft Office 365 suite of software. - Must possess an active SECRET security clearance. Desired Skills - Master’s Degree or Ph.D. in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering. - Experience working in a matrixed or collaborative technical oversight environment (SETA). - Specific, direct experience with test-customer focused wind tunnel operations subsonic, transonic, supersonic, and Hypersonic Aerodynamics, or Hypersonic Propulsion. - Experience with Facility Engineering specializing in high-temperature and high-pressure systems. - Experience in instrumentation systems, data collection, and data analytics. - Understanding and regular use of Generative AI tools applied to engineering analysis, code generation, or document review. - Experience with modern digital engineering design and analysis tools and software. - Familiarity with DoW weapon acquisition programs and their T&E needs. Travel Requirements - Travel approximately 20% of the year (approximately ten non-consecutive weeks).