Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Salary: $198,050 - 267,950 per year Requirements:

• We require an active U.S. Secret security clearance, or one that has been active within the past 24 months.
• We need candidates who can obtain access to Special Access Programs.
• A bachelors degree is required.
• We look for at least 14 years of experience in DevOps, site reliability engineering, software engineering, or cloud engineering.
• We require hands-on experience with GitLab, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
• We need prior technical leadership experience.
• We require experience designing and implementing scalable computing infrastructure for data-driven solutions, including cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• We look for at least 5 years of experience performing root cause analysis for design failures.
• We prefer candidates with a bachelors degree in engineering, engineering technology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science, along with extensive related experience.
• We value experience presenting technical strategy, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to senior technical and program leaders.
• We prefer deep experience administering or architecting GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, GitLab runners, or similar enterprise source control and CI/CD platforms.
• We prefer deep experience with Jira, Confluence, or other Atlassian tools in an enterprise setting.
• We prefer deep experience with PostgreSQL architecture and operations, including backup and recovery, replication, performance tuning, storage planning, maintenance, and high-availability designs.
• We value experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Infrastructure as Code, Ansible, configuration management, containers, Docker, Kubernetes, virtualization, artifact management, secrets management, and secure software delivery practices.
• We prefer experience administering or architecting Artifactory, SonarQube, Jenkins, or similar software delivery tools.
• We prefer experience designing observability platforms, alerting approaches, SLO frameworks, service health dashboards, and operational reporting.
• We value experience supporting Air Dominance, classified, air-gapped, or highly regulated engineering environments.
• We prefer experience developing disaster recovery strategies, continuity of operations plans, recovery time objectives, recovery point objectives, and restore validation programs.
• We value experience guiding cybersecurity hardening, vulnerability remediation, audit readiness, privileged access controls, and compliance-driven operations.
• We require the ability to obtain Security+ certification.
• We need demonstrated ability to lead through influence across engineering teams, customers, suppliers, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and program stakeholders.
• We require strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create architecture documentation, executive briefings, technical roadmaps, and decision records.

• We define and lead the site reliability engineering strategy for GitLab, CI/CD runners, Jira, Confluence, PostgreSQL, Artifactory, SonarQube, and related developer tooling infrastructure.
• We establish reliability architecture, operating standards, SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, KPIs, error budgets, observability patterns, capacity models, backup strategies, and disaster recovery methods.
• We act as the senior technical authority for reliability, performance, scalability, integration, database, automation, and security decisions.
• We lead architecture and design reviews for developer tooling platforms, runner topology, PostgreSQL operations, cloud and on-premises infrastructure, monitoring, access control, and integrations.
• We drive automation, infrastructure as code, Ansible, configuration management, and repeatable operating practices that reduce manual effort and improve reliability.
• We guide major upgrades, migrations, lifecycle planning, patching approaches, recovery planning, and technical roadmaps for supported platforms.
• We lead complex incidents and investigations, including root cause analysis, corrective actions, and broader reliability improvements.
• We mentor and technically support SREs in operational excellence, troubleshooting, automation, secure administration, and architecture.
• We partner with program leadership, cybersecurity, infrastructure, software engineering, database, networking, suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders.
• We identify platform risks, technical debt, capacity limits, single points of failure, compliance issues, and operational gaps, then drive remediation plans.
• We define, collect, analyze, and refine delivery and reliability metrics for execution, leadership visibility, and continuous improvement.
• We lead standards for provisioning, scaling, configuration management, monitoring, troubleshooting, and tool integration.
• We create and maintain architecture documentation, design patterns, standards, operational readiness criteria, and executive technical briefings.
• We influence support models, maintenance strategies, escalation paths, and investment priorities based on mission impact and operational risk.
• We help operationalize higher-quality end-to-end system software releases at a faster pace.
• We participate in after-hours support and escalation for urgent or mission-impacting issues when needed.

• AWS
• Ansible
• Atlassian
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Confluence
• DevOps
• Docker
• GitLab
• Support
• JIRA
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• PostgreSQL
• Security
• SAP

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We are Boeing, and we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. We are committed to building a welcoming, respectful, and inclusive environment with strong opportunities for professional growth. This Lead Site Reliability Engineer role is part of our Air Dominance Site Reliability Engineering team in Berkeley, Missouri, and is expected to be 100% onsite. We offer competitive base pay, variable compensation opportunities, and eligible employees may access health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance, and paid and unpaid time away from work. We also offer relocation based on eligibility. This role is subject to our Conflict of Interest assessment, Drug Free Workplace policies, export control requirements for U.S. Persons, and a technical assessment as part of the selection process. The summary pay range for this position is $198,050 to $267,950.

last updated 37 week of 2026