Site Reliability Engineer

Description:
On-site in either Norfolk, VA or San Diego, CA or Honolulu, HI

Our client seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to focus on reliability, performance, and scalability of distributed systems supporting the Navy Enterprise Network. The role will design and automate tests for resilience, performance under load, and failure scenarios. It will collaborate with SRE and development teams to integrate automated testing into CI/CD, validate SLOs, and improve monitoring and alerting. The position will also automate releases, monitor systems, and remediate issues proactively to improve site performance and reliability. This role supports identity and access management platforms and contributes to modernization of the enterprise network.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $60.00 to $65.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:

• Test, maintain, troubleshoot, and upgrade solutions for Active Directory, Azure, Delinea, Ansible, Microsoft Identity Manager, ADFS, DHCP, DNS, WINS, GPOs, and PKI, including patching and STIG compliance.
• Collaborate with development and operations to enable reliable deployments, monitor systems, and improve platform reliability. Identify, document, and resolve system bugs.
• Develop features and scripts using AI coding tools to automate, scale, test, and secure cloud infrastructure and pipelines.
• Enhance performance monitoring using Splunk or other dashboards.
• Identify and remediate performance bottlenecks in cloud infrastructure.
• Advance SRE practices for build, maintenance, automation, and reliability using DevOps tools and Infrastructure as Code.
• Design and code pipeline automation workflows across cloud and on-prem environments aligned to business and technology strategies.
• Develop and execute test strategies simulating failures such as network disruptions, hardware faults, and overloads.
• Create, script, and run performance tests to assess system behavior under varying load and traffic. Identify degradation and optimization areas.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated test suites for infrastructure and applications. Integrate testing into CI/CD.
• Build automated systems for continuous performance, stress, and load testing.
• Partner with SREs, developers, and operations to define reliability goals and validate them through testing.
• Ensure new services and features undergo performance, reliability, and recovery testing before production deployment.
• Validate monitoring, logging, and alerting by testing under failure conditions.
• Ensure SLIs and SLOs are measured and tracked via automation.
• Resolve most timeline, budget, and scope conflicts independently and escalate consequential issues appropriately.
• Provide night, weekend, and on-call support as needed.

Experience Requirements:

• Experience with identity platforms and Windows services including Active Directory, ADFS, GPOs, PKI, DHCP, DNS, and WINS.
• Hands-on experience with Azure, Ansible, Delinea, and Microsoft Identity Manager.
• Proficiency building CI/CD-integrated automated tests for performance, stress, and failure scenarios.
• Experience with performance monitoring and observability using Splunk or similar tools.
• Ability to identify and remediate infrastructure performance bottlenecks.
• Experience developing Infrastructure as Code and pipeline automation.
• Ability to collaborate across SRE, development, and operations teams to meet SLOs.
• Willingness to support alternate schedules and on-call rotations.

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Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients' capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

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