Skyward IT Solutions
Site Reliability Engineer
Rockville, MD · Internship
No sponsorship$112k-$150kDetected 35 days ago
Distributed SystemsGitAWSDockerTerraformAnsibleCI/CDJenkinsSite Reliability EngineeringNLPLLMsCybersecurityCommunicationProblem Solving
About the role
- That is, a love for people, for improvement, for human advancement through information technology.
- Integrity: We're conscientious, intentional, and empathetic.
- Please don't ask us to play another part, we're poor actors.
Responsibilities
- Automate the toil. Write infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible) and support CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) and containerized workloads (Docker) for repeatable, reliable deployments.
- Define and track the numbers that matter. Set and monitor SLIs and SLOs, and produce performance, load/stress, and bottleneck reports that drive smarter decisions.
- Optimize for performance, security, and cost. Use tools like AWS Trusted Advisor to find and act on improvement opportunities.
- Support security and compliance modernization.
- Partner with the Security & Compliance SME to review vulnerability and security scans, feed continuous monitoring, and help advance the move toward a Continuous ATO (cATO) within a FISMA Moderate boundary (RMF, ARS, IS2P2).
- Strengthen resilience. Help design and maintain disaster recovery and COOP continuity so the systems hold up against outages, incidents, and the unexpected.
- Own incidents end to end. Drive response, run blameless post-mortems, and implement the preventative fixes that keep the same thing from happening twice.
Requirements
- Do you have a real feel for how distributed systems behave, and a knack for tracking down the network, infrastructure, or pipeline issue everyone else gave up on?
- A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field (or equivalent hands-on experience).
- 3-5 years of experience in site reliability, systems, or cloud engineering, with meaningful time spent in AWS environments.
- Solid working knowledge of core AWS services, architecture, and best practices.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation).
- Comfort scripting and automating in Python.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tooling (CloudWatch, New Relic, Splunk, or comparable).
- Clear communication skills, with the ability to make complex technical concepts understandable.
Compensation
- $5,000 per year for professional development
- $600 per year for technical supplies and equipment
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision insurance (fully paid for employees)
- 15 days of paid leave
- 7 days of sick leave
- 2 days bereavement leave
- 401K with 4% employer contribution (and no vesting period)
- Up to 4 weeks of paid paternity and maternity leave
- $2,000 referral bonus
- Life and disability insurance
- Legal Shield and ID Shield Voluntary Benefits
Company info
- We are Skyward.
- We are a people-centered business with a desire to serve others.
- We are diverse and unified; creative and collaborative; a collection of complementary, not competing talents.
- And though on the surface we remain relaxed, beneath, a torrent of energy links us to our civic tech mission.
- We stand by our values, and we won't compromise on any of them.
- For us, life isn't what happens outside of work.
- Work happens inside of life and our culture erases the line often dividing the two.
- At Skyward, we're focused on hiring individuals with the right skills and passion to grow, not just checking off every box.
- What we offer you:
Visa & Work Authorization
- Applicants must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance due to the nature of our work as a government contractor
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