QA SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER - BAE Systems : Job Details

**Job Description**

BAE Systems is seeking a motivated, self-driven, Site Reliability Engineer for an exciting opportunity to support the Air Force's acquisition of the next generation Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM).

This role will be working directly with and providing leadership to experienced software development team, the Digital Transformation Office (DTO), in maintaining a platform to allow development inside an environment that aligns with DevSecOps and GitOps principles towards CI/CD. You will help specifically with quality analysis of web applications for various cloud platforms with a security mindset. You may also develop automation scripts for our CI/CD pipeline and code infrastructure for various cloud platforms through Infrastructure as Code.

**Why BAE Systems?** BAE Systems is the third largest defense contractor in the world with an exceptional, mission-focused culture. The 800 BAE Systems employees and sub-contractors located at Hill Air Force Base, Utah are aligned to the United States Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center. We support the Center in sustainment of the existing LGM-30 Minuteman III (MM III) weapon system and acquisition of its replacement, the YLGM-182A Sentinel, formerly known as Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD). We are a valued mission partner delivering daily excellence and innovative solutions to our government customers. BAE Systems has earned accolades as a Top Workplace in Utah based on employee feedback for three consecutive years, earning special distinction for providing a healthy work-life balance for our valued employees. We work very hard to ensure this is a great place to work!

**Why Utah?** You ve got to see it to believe it! Utah is an amazing state with a diverse and eclectic culture and truly offers a new experience for anyone willing to search. We are located north of Salt Lake City at the foot of the beautiful Wasatch Mountains. The area offers an incredible range of outdoors pursuits across the seasons including hiking, climbing, hunting, fishing, and camping, boating and world class skiing at resorts that hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics. The state is home to five amazing National Parks and an easy drive from two more; Grand Teton and famous first National Park in the world, Yellowstone. The Salt Lake City area offers a vast array of cultural activities and businesses including multiple professional sports teams. It is a western states hub for exceptional, cutting edge medical care with people traveling from across the region for a range of nationally renowned specialty care centers and doctors. The Salt Lake International Airport is expanding and offers easy direct access to just about anywhere you want to fly.

**Why the DTO and Sentinel?** The DTO supports an array of clients and transformational initiatives across the Air and Space Force. The Sentinel Program specifically is an enormous and complex Mega-Project modernizing the entire ICBM weapon system deployed across tens of thousands of square miles in five states. Without a doubt Sentinel is one of the DOD s most important acquisition efforts for the next decade, if not longer. It includes a complete refurbishment of hundreds of aging Minuteman III ICBM facilities to secure and support a newly designed, technologically advanced ballistic missile. It will also provide an entirely new command and control system as well as vast array of required support equipment specifically engineered to operate and sustain the new weapon system over the decades ahead, and remain operational until at least 2075.

**Job Details**

This Site Reliability Engineer position will support the DTO, responsible for supporting the development of next generation modeling, analytic and simulation software in support of the entire ICBM enterprise and an array of other software projects. This position supports information technology configuration and certification for spatial data systems and providing project execution support to clients throughout all phases of planning, restoration and modernization efforts at current and future facilities across the enterprise.

This role will be a mix of a DevSecOps Engineer (focused on secure developer velocity and continuous delivery) and an SRE (software automation, reliability of applications deployed, monitoring releases and the maintenance of the applications and systems), working closely with developers, security, and operations. Responsibilities of the role include assisting with software integration and delivery (CI/CD), web server management, alerting and monitoring, software development pipeline building, troubleshooting, SDLC optimizations, scripting and automation, networking configuration, security reconciliation, documentation, and configuration management.

The position is being filled as a part of the Future ICBM Sustainment and Acquisition Construct (FISAC) under which BAE Systems augments organic government resources by providing breadth and depth of capabilities for system engineering and integration, risk management, technical assessment, acquisition program management, strategy development, organization and change management, interface with operations and logistics, business analysis, mission effectiveness, and ICBM Demonstration / Validation (Dem/Val) Integrated Applications Programs. The position will be located at or near Hill AFB, Utah.

**Required Education, Experience, & Skills**

+ Appropriate BS 7 years of progressive experience (5 years w/Master s Degree) with:

+ Knowledge of scripting languages and methods to automate processes

+ Knowledge of developing on or serving as a system administrator for Linux and/or Windows systems

+ Collaborating with development teams to integrate operational considerations into the software development life cycle.

+ Familiar with Site Reliability Engineer, DevSecOps, GitOps Environments and Methodologies

+ Conducting post-incident reviews to prevent recurrence

+ Developing and maintaining system health and performance metrics

+ Developing and maintaining system security policies and procedures

+ Strong Linux background

+ Experience with Git

+ Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and root cause analysis

+ Support AWS or Azure cloud platforms

+ Management of Infrastructure as Code (IaS), Configuration as Code, and Security as Code (SaC)

+ Troubleshoot build issues, script failures, network and system errors

+ Familiarity with networking concepts like subnets, VPNs, firewalls, certificates, and routing

+ Document of processes and procedures

+ Familiar with NIST Controls and DFARS

+ Familiar with Agile Development methodologies

**Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills**

+ Experience with deploying and administration of Platform One Big Bang deployments.

+ Familiar with administration of open source platform tools like Rancher, Harbor, and ArgoCD.

+ Experience with secure IT systems and ATOs which comply with DoD standards and regulations for secure network operations (DoDI 8510.01, RMF, FedRamp, etc)

+ CompTIA Sec certification or other DoD 8570 Certifications

+ Active DoD Secret Security Clearance

**Pay Information**

Full-Time Salary Range: $91980 - $156330

Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.

Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20 hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.

**QA Site Reliability Engineer**

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