Job Description
Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Hybrid remote in St. Louis, MO
Must be able to work onsite
12 Month contract
Description:
As a Contract Site Reliability Engineer you will report to a Manager and be part of a team that provides software engineering services to a forecasting system owned by the Department of Treasury's Bureau of the Fiscal Service.
This role will assist with designing and enhancing existing infrastructure solutions by leveraging experience to help set cloud technology direction. As our Site Reliability Engineer, you will need strong logic and problem-solving skills to guide creation and maintenance of reusable enterprise cloud technology solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Write code, test, and execute or orchestrate pipelines into production based on customer specifications.
- Act as a subject matter expert (SME) for infrastructure and cloud operations to resolve or escalate as appropriate.
- Develop, lead, and optimize the peer review process for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), maintain in a code repository, and build CI/CD pipelines focused on application layer. IaC tools include Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, CDK, bash, TypeScript, Python, and other applicable tools.
- Work with teams to understand existing infrastructure state and assist in achieving the next step forward.
- Design full-stack cloud technology solutions in collaboration with application development teams, in alignment with vision established by technology and product leaders.
- Take ownership of existing technology solutions, design and proactively collaborate with key stakeholders that increase efficiency, and recommend improvements that increase resiliency, automation, and reduce manual effort.
- Lead the implementation of additional tools and processes that maintain an automation first approach to infrastructure and middleware management.
- Help create roadmaps to sunset, replace, and decommission legacy implementations as new capabilities are introduced.
- Integrate agile approach to software development that helps build, test, deploy, and monitor applications with speed, quality, and control.
- Support and maintain distributed storage technologies.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field of study, or commensurate experience.
- 5+ years of experience in information systems with a combination of the following:
- Technical certification.
- Experience building and scaling highly available cloud architectures, all while maintaining high-quality codebases.
- Experience building infrastructure solutions in Amazon Web Services (AWS), including tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Lambda, and serverless deployments.
- Experience using system monitoring and automated self-healing.
- Knowledge of Ansible, Terraform, Python, shell scripting, and other automation tools.
- Full stack application development experience, including CI/CD pipeline development, automated builds, testing, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and DevSecOps methods of planning work.
- Proficient in source control and leveraging a source code repository.
- Proficient in containerization and management of Linux distributions.
- Excellent writing and documentation skills.
- Creative troubleshooting & problem-solving skills.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products.
- US Citizen.
Contract Details:
- Duration of the contract is 12 months.
- Highly prefer local candidates only; exceptional candidates may be considered for remote.