Site Reliability Engineer

CloudFit Software is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to work directly on increasing quality, performance, and reliability of the CloudFit Managed Applications and Services systems. Our SREs help maintain accountability of production workloads while making it easier to run modern applications and services in the cloud. As a team, we bring together significant and complementary capabilities with tooling, infrastructure, monitoring and insights in new ways to innovate in operations.

We truly value people who enjoy learning, celebrating mistakes to show the way forward, and those who are happy to continuously improve. If this excites you, we’d love to connect!

Responsibilities:

• Work across CloudFit Software Platform and other internal systems to improve platforms and processes that result in improved reliability and maintainability for all
• Work across CloudFit to drive tools that help deliver insights and automation to simplify the complex world of scaled services
• Communicate effectively and partner well with other disciplines of the project team to deliver high-quality solutions from ideas to production code
• Be accountable for the production health of a managed service or application, responding in kind to escalations, and driving repairs to prevent future recurrences of issues.
• Write clean and thorough design documents and code that exemplify quality, simplicity, and maintainability
• Be a mentor for design reviews, code, and test cases
• Design systems that prioritize the customer perspective and experience
• Quickly adapt and apply new technologies, tools, methods, and processes from both internal and external sources
• Design and influence design, implementation, and architectural direction
• Drive architectural consolidation and simplification
• Exemplify the CloudFit values of leveraging the work of others and helping others be successful through your behaviors and actions
• Travel to support customers in air-gapped environments
• Must be able to report on-site in Lynchburg, VA

What makes you the perfect fit for this role:

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science/Engineering or 1+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure design, system engineering, QA/testing automation, DevOps
• 1+ Years of programming/development experience with modern programming/development languages: Python, PowerShell, Go, C#, Java, C++
• Ability to manage competing priorities and work well under pressure or timelines
• Familiar with SRE methodologies and passionate about solving operation problems through automation and software engineering
• Ability to communicate effectively with peers and management within the organization

Some nice haves (but not required):

• Awareness of, and ability to reason about, modern software & systems architectures, including load-balancing, queueing, caching, distributed systems failure modes generally, microservices, and so on
• Understanding of observability in distributed systems
• 1+ years of experience with Linux/Unix or Windows system administration
• Experience with working in a team, including coordinating large projects, communicating well, and exercising initiative when presented with problems
• Practical experience running large-scale online systems is always an advantage
• Familiar with git, GitLab, or GitHub
• Exposure to containers and Kubernetes, as well as automation tools such as helm

Current Federal Security Clearance or ability to obtain (US Citizenship required)

The salary range for this role is $60k - $150k + benefits, & perks.

Please note the national salary range listed in the job posting reflects the new hire salary range across levels and U.S. locations that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be commensurate with the candidate’s final level and location. Also, the range represents salary only and does not include our total rewards package.

Perks & Benefits:

CloudFit benefits are designed with wellness in mind, to support what matters the most:

• CloudFit covers over 90% of medical, 100% of dental and vision, including buy-up options for you and your family!
• Financial Wellness: 401k, HSA, FSAs, Personal Financial Advisors
• 3 Weeks of PTO, 13 Paid Company Holidays, 8 Giving Back Hours
• Wellness Reimbursement Program

Career development for employees at every level is a priority at CloudFit.

• Unlimited Certification Reimbursement
• User-Friendly Career Development Tools & Resources

About CloudFit:

CloudFit Software provides customers the ability to quickly iterate on the development of Cloud Solutions while optimizing security, networking, operations, and monitoring through an engineering mindset. At CloudFit Software, we instrument solutions that attempt to reduce the human element by apply automation and engineering to every aspect of a solution's lifecycle. CloudFit focuses on delivering managed scenarios that meet customer business needs. This allows us to provide core operational outcomes while integrating back with the customer’s existing operations teams.

Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain a security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens. In addition, applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment may be subject to government security investigation(s) and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

CloudFit is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.