Hybrid SRE Lead

at Leidos

• Job title: SRE Lead
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $131,300 - $237,350 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Cyber Security, Jenkins, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• SRE Lead developing scalable cloud-native solutions for mission-critical systems supporting USAF. Managing teams, collaborating with cross-functional units, and ensuring high service reliability standards.

Responsibilities

• 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