Senior Site Reliability Engineer job

company building Forcepoint Federal Holdings LLC location Herndon, VA
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Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Ashburn VA and Herndon VA/Flex-On Site As Needed

***Recent Pay Increase***

Forcepoint is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to solve problems relating to mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence, with the goal of automating response to all non-exceptional service conditions. Site Reliability Engineer will be focused on maximum availability, reliability, security, and performance for Forcepoint services.

What will you be doing?
  • Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Forcepoint's services
  • Influence and create new designs, architectures, standards and methods for large-scale distributed systems
  • Collaborate with a world-class engineering team to propose features that solve recurring patterns of customer complaints
  • Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning
  • Participate in on call rotation, Participate, collaborate and provide guidance in retrospectives.
  • Find scalability bottlenecks and areas for performance improvements
  • Strong team player with a high degree of flexibility.
  • Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive
What experience(s), knowledge, and education we are looking for:
  • US Citizenship Required
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent experience
  • 8 years' experience in either networking or system administration
  • Potential after hours support as needed for outages or deadlines
  • Ability to write programs/code using at least one modern programming language, preferably Python, Go, Perl or Ruby
  • Strong fundamentals of Cloud Architecture and Cloud Technology offerings (Docker, Kubernetes, Micro-services etc.)
  • Understanding of IaaS and PaaS technology stacks
  • Understanding of Monitoring and Observability principles, with experience of either deploying or using a monitoring/observability platform such as NewRelic, DataDog, Graffana, Solarwinds, Zabbix, LogicMonitor etc.
  • Strong networking fundamentals
  • Understanding of Infrastructure as Code principles, having an experience with IaC tool-stack such as Terraform
  • Strong grasp on Configuration Management tool-stack, such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet etc.
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and its related tool-stack (Git, Jenkins, etc.)
  • Automation driven, service availability focused, with an understanding of Incident Management, RCA and Change Control practices
  • Exposed to Agile methodologies and practices
  • Experience with Amazon Web Services and/or any other public cloud
  • Blend of both Development and SRE mindset (i.e., software and infrastructure)
  • Networking: knowledge and understanding of network theory, such as different protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, etc.), MAC addresses, IP packets, DNS, OSI layers, and load balancing
  • Experience with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis and software design.
  • Systematic problem-solving skills, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive.
  • Procedural and troubleshooting documentation skills
Additional Qualification:
  • Expertise in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
  • Familiarity with running web services at scale; understanding of Unix systems internals and networking, AWS.
  • Understanding of Unix/Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond, taking in system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols along the way
  • Good knowledge of virtualization technologies and container technologies
  • Experience with containers and HA clusters; experience with Docker and Amazon ECS /Kubernetes/ Mesosphere/Docker Swarm a plus


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US Covid-19 Vaccination Policy

In compliance with Executive Order 14042, all Forcepoint US jobs require employees to be fully vaccinated and provide proof of vaccination as a condition of employment. If you are unable to receive the COVID-19 vaccine due to a medical condition or sincerely held religious belief, Forcepoint offers reasonable accommodations unless the accommodation causes Forcepoint or its customers undue hardship or poses a direct threat to the health and safety of others.

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*Other duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Forcepoint Is a Federal Contractor and an EEO and Affirmative Action Employer of Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities. We are committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.

Certain positions with Forcepoint require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations or the Export Administration Regulations. Applicants for these positions may need to be "U.S. Persons," as defined in these regulations. Generally, a "U.S. Person" is a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or an individual who has been admitted as a refugee or granted asylum.

If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talentcoordinators@forcepoint.com. We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.

Applicants must have the right to work in the location to which you have applied.

We are committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.
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green circle info icon  This position is open. This job was posted on Thu Apr 28 2022 and expires on Sat May 28 2022.
Minimum $131,826
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