SRE Lead Security Clearance

Position: SRE Lead with Security Clearance
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- Description Leidos   was awarded   the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared   Services contract, and   currently has   an   opening for   a   SRE Lead .
This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience   to   modernize a leading , global-scale   multi-cloud environment   in support of a critical mission, supporting USAF system resiliency, security, and cost effectiveness.

Location:

These positions will be   hybrid remote. Candidates   will   be required   to work onsite as needed. Preferred candidates will be   located   near Hanscom AFB (Boston, MA)   or work in Huntsville, AL.
Primary Responsibilities   Could Include:
This individual will   be responsible for   developing in a scalable cloud-native solutions, and ensuring best practices across architecture, development, deployment, and security. This is a hands-on technical role that requires rolling up your sleeves to architect, code, debug, and mentor.

• Manage and   mentor    the   SRE team (pods) and FTEs, providing guidance, setting performance expectations, and fostering professional development.    
• Work collaboratively with SRE Resource Managers to staff and   maintain   engineering resources for your SRE vertical teams' reliability and scalability goals.

• Manage the SRE team’s resources, including tool selection, and infrastructure investments to meet reliability and scalability needs.

• Meet regularly with your team members,   participate   in performance reviews and interviews, and development planning.

• Oversee the reliability, availability, and performance of critical systems by leading the SRE teams within the data center vertical in implementing monitoring, incident response, and performance optimization strategies.

• Ensure the team adheres to best practices for system reliability, automation, and operational efficiency.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives by analyzing performance metrics (e.g., SLOs, MTTR, MTBF) and   identifying   areas for enhancement.

• Collaborate with operations, quality, cybersecurity and other SRE engineering teams to define and enforce Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and manage error budgets.

• Act as a liaison between the SRE team and other departments to prioritize reliability and operational needs in the product development process.

• Collaborate with senior leadership to define the SRE strategy, set long-term reliability goals, and ensure alignment with business objectives   
• Lead efforts to reduce operational toil through automation. Work with the team to build or enhance automation tools that manage infrastructure,   monitor   systems, and respond to incidents.

• Oversee the development and adoption of Infrastructure as Code ( IaC ) tools, CI/CD pipelines, and other automation processes.

• Ensure that SRE practices align with organizational security policies and compliance requirements.

• Collaborate with security teams to integrate reliability-focused security practices into the design and operation of systems.

• Ensure systems meet or exceed agreed-upon service levels by proactively addressing potential issues and working with stakeholders to align on reliability expectations.

• Work within a SRE team, collaborating with other Developers, Security, and Operations, to continuously deliver products and increase the value stream for the organization and customers.

• Embrace and champion Agile development processes and adoption to modern Site Reliability Engineering workflows and practices while   providing   technical guidance to team members and coworkers on best practices   
• Stay up to date on the latest Site Reliability Engineering practices and technologies.

• Strive to provide internal and external customers with excellent customer service and world-class service.

• Resolve most conflicts between timeline, budget, and scope independently but intuitively raise sophisticated or consequential issues to senior management     

Minimum Qualifications   
* Bachelors   and   twelve (12)   years or more of experience;
Masters   and   ten   ( 1 0 )   years or more of experience.
Additional   experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.

* Secret clearance   required   
* US…