
SRE Lead
Leidos
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Alabama • Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $131,300 - $237,350 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Responsible for developing scalable cloud-native solutions, ensuring best practices across architecture, development, deployment, and security.
- Manage and mentor the SRE team, providing guidance and fostering professional development.
- Work collaboratively with SRE Resource Managers to maintain engineering resources.
- Meet regularly with team members, participate in performance reviews and development planning.
- Oversee the reliability, availability, and performance of critical systems by leading SRE teams.
- Ensure team adheres to best practices for system reliability, automation, and operational efficiency.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives by analyzing performance metrics.
- Collaborate with operations, quality, cybersecurity, and other SRE engineering teams.
- Act as a liaison between the SRE team and other departments to prioritize reliability and operational needs.
- Collaborate with senior leadership to define SRE strategy and set long-term reliability goals.
- Lead efforts to reduce operational toil through automation.
- Oversee development and adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, CI/CD pipelines, and other automation processes.
- Ensure SRE practices align with organizational security policies and compliance requirements.
- Collaborate with security teams to integrate reliability-focused security practices.
- Ensure systems meet or exceed agreed-upon service levels.
- Work within a SRE team to continuously deliver products and increase value for the organization and customers.
- Embrace and champion Agile development processes and provide technical guidance.
Requirements
- Bachelors and twelve (12) years or more of experience;
- Masters and ten (10) years or more of experience.
- Secret clearance required
- US citizenship required
- Certifications: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT-2)
- Familiarity with DevSecOps principles and practices.
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies such as Scrum and/or Kanban.
- Experience creating JIRA and/or Azure DevOps workflows, projects, custom configurations.
- Solid experience with integrating/maintaining various 3rd party CI/CD tools like Jenkins and Gitlab.
- Experience with automated provisioning and configuration tools like Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible, or similar technologies.
- Strong knowledge of security principles, including threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, and encryption techniques.
- Ability to lead teams through strategic initiatives such as reliability maturity assessments, process automation, and tooling selection.
- Solid understanding of SRE principles, including Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgeting.
- Experience with commercial cloud infrastructure deployment environments such as AWS and Azure.
- Strong knowledge of automation tools, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
Benefits
- Health and Wellness programs
- Income Protection
- Paid Leave
- Retirement
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud-native solutionsInfrastructure as Code (IaC)CI/CD pipelinesTerraformCloud FormationAnsibleJenkinsGitlabDevSecOpsSRE principles
Soft Skills
mentoringcollaborationleadershipguidancecommunicationstrategic initiative leadershipperformance review participationcontinuous improvementoperational efficiencyteam prioritization
Certifications
Bachelors degreeMasters degreeSecret clearanceCompTIA Security+