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EOP - System Reliability Engineer - TS/SCI Required
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EOP - System Reliability Engineer - TS/SCI Required
cFocus Software Incorporated
cFocus Software seeks a System Reliability Engineer to join our program supporting the Executive Office of the President. This position is remote. This position requires a TS/SCI clearance. Qualifications: - 5+ years and Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience, including: - 3+ years of related systems programming experience - Experience maintaining an operational environment and use of monitoring tools and dashboard interfaces (ie. Kibana, Grafana) - Experience working with container images and platforms (Kubernetes/Docker) - Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes - Understanding of GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and other DevOps/Continuous Integration tools for Kubernetes - Understanding of microservice design and architectural pattern best practices - Understanding of Python, Bash, and Shell scripting - Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design - problem solving and troubleshooting skills - communication and interpersonal skills - Must possess excellent time management skills and the drive to work unsupervised - Experience with deploying to on prem/data center infrastructure - Experience using Jira and Confluence on a daily basis - Experience in building processes for deploying to a Kubernetes based environment using Gitlab and Helm - Understanding of access management and security groups (i.e. IAM, S3 bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.) - Ability to write and use unit and functional testing - Technical Skills: Proficiency in programming languages (such as Python, Go, or Bash) is essential for scripting and automation tasks. Knowledge of Linux/Unix systems is also crucial, as SREs often work in these environments. - Problem-Solving: analytical and problem-solving skills are necessary to diagnose and resolve complex system issues effectively. - Understanding of SRE Principles: Familiarity with key SRE concepts such as Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets is important for measuring and maintaining system reliability. - Reliability and Availability: SRE practices help ensure that services are consistently available and reliable, which is critical for user satisfaction and business success. - Scalability: SREs implement strategies that allow systems to scale efficiently as demand increases, ensuring that performance remains optimal even under heavy load. - Cost Management: By optimizing resource usage and reducing downtime, SREs contribute to cost savings for organizations. - Programming and Scripting: Proficiency in languages like Python, Go, or Ruby is crucial for automating tasks and managing infrastructure. - Operating Systems: A strong understanding of Linux/Unix systems is essential for troubleshooting and managing servers. - Cloud Computing: Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud is vital for deploying and managing applications in distributed environments. - Containers & Orchestration: Understanding containerization tools like Docker and managing containerized workloads with Kubernetes is crucial for cloud-native applications. - Monitoring and Logging: Proficiency in tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) Stack is necessary for tracking metrics, setting up alerts, and analyzing logs. - Networking: Knowledge of networking protocols and configurations is essential for maintaining system health and performance. - Configuration Management: Skills in managing and maintaining system configurations are critical for ensuring system reliability. - Incident Response: Ability to respond quickly and effectively to incidents, including documenting and learning from them. - Security Best Practices: Understanding security protocols and best practices to protect systems from vulnerabilities. - These skills are essential for SREs to maintain high availability and performance, balancing the demands of development and operations. - Support required during core business hours of 8am – 5pm, Monday through Friday. - On-call for evenings or weekends, if needed for outages, application upgrades, security patches or other unplanned activities. Duties: - Monitor system health, availability, and performance using centralized monitoring and logging tools. - Administration of accounts (role-based access and rights). - Manage accessibility to the application through EOP’s authentication systems. - Manage the workflow templates to ensure consistent and predictable task flows. - Configure workflow management for new or adjustments based on user requests, while adhering to EOP template standards. - Maintain configurations and configurable fields for users and workflows. - Maintain the test environment to mimic production and conduct test and evaluation in the environment prior to deployments. - Design and maintain a secure and reliable form of backups, ensuring High Availability (HA) and resiliency. - Develop a Disaster Recovery (DR) or Incident Response (IR) plan for specific applications and services in the event of a disaster or unexpected downtime. - Maintain unique instances that support various offices. - Configure and support integrations with complementary systems. - Establish and Improve system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols within development, test, and production systems. - Architect, build and maintain on premise and/or cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiatives. - Maintain and improve existing infrastructure (build out autoscaling, support new services, optimize for cost efficiencies/authentication/search, etc.). - Administer production, staging and development environments. - Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor for security and system related incidents. - Monitor and analyze system performance, such as server load and resource usage. - Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes using CI/CD tools. - Apply configuration management disciplines to maintain software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation. - Enforce best practices for security and reliability, and drive security initiatives, like access control and vulnerability testing. - Maintain up to date documentation of designs/configurations, ensuring team members have continuity of recurring tasks. - Maintain status of operations at all times: perform after actions reporting on all outages and work with engineering teams to determine solution and root cause analysis. Present findings to management for prioritization and tasking. - Create and determine required metrics for dashboards and service health. - Follow up on engineering tasks for operational solutions, and validate completion - Manage operational readiness board – present at weekly meetings and determine if development services are ready for automation based on best practices and maintainability. - Track and ensure routine operations maintenance tasks are completed in a timely manner. - Align to the customer's strategies for configuration of workflows, without compromising the integrity of the workflow tool and templates. - Build, maintain, and utilize the customer's enterprise Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) pipeline. - Work with other service providers to support areas of common interest. - On-call support may be required.
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• Administer and maintain Windows Server environments to ensure optimal performance and security. • Oversee Kubernetes operations, including deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. • Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Groovy for efficient software delivery. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project requirements and technical solutions. • Implement networking solutions, understanding VLANs and firewalls to enhance system connectivity. • Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to containerization and application deployments. • Foster a culture of innovation, sharing knowledge and best practices with team members.
• Administer and maintain Windows Server environments to ensure optimal performance and security. • Oversee Kubernetes operations, including deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. • Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Groovy for efficient software delivery. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project requirements and technical solutions. • Implement networking solutions, understanding VLANs and firewalls to enhance system connectivity. • Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to containerization and application deployments. • Foster a culture of innovation, sharing knowledge and best practices with team members.



