Site Reliability Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton
This job at a glance
- Who can apply
- New grads, no experience needed · Bachelor's degree
- Must know
- KubernetesIncident responseAWSTerraformPythonLinux
- Nice to have
- TroubleshootingOperations
- Work
- On-site in Reston
- Pay
- Not stated by the employer.
- Skill demand
- AWS46%Kubernetes43%Terraform36%Incident response25%of 99 similar entry-level jobs posted in the US this week
- Listed
- Nov 4, 2026 · still open
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About the Role
Engineering to make mission-critical systems more reliable, secure, and resilient enables users to focus on delivering operational outcomes. As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) on our team, you'll help support and sustain a production Kubernetes-based platform operating within the Intelligence Community. You'll perform platform operations, infrastructure maintenance, software upgrades, troubleshooting, incident response, and operational support activities while helping drive automation and continuous improvement. You'll work with cloud-native technologies supporting mission systems deployed on AWS-based infrastructure utilizing Kubernetes, OpenShift, EKS, Terraform, and Helm. This is your chance to further your skills in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes administration, Infrastructure-as-Code, and automation while supporting highly visible mission requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Support and sustain a production Kubernetes-based platform.
- Perform platform operations, infrastructure maintenance, software upgrades, troubleshooting, incident response, and operational support.
- Drive automation and continuous improvement.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Experience operating and supporting production containerized Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
- Experience administering Kubernetes environments.
- Experience supporting troubleshooting and maintenance.
- Experience with AWS cloud environments.
- Experience with Red Hat OpenShift.
- Experience with Amazon EKS.
- Experience deploying and managing Infrastructure-as-Code solutions, including Terraform.
- Experience deploying and managing containerized applications using Helm.
- Experience developing automation and scripting solutions using Bash or Python.
- Experience supporting software upgrades, patching, operational requests, and incident response activities.
- Knowledge of Linux operating systems.
- Knowledge of networking concepts.
- Knowledge of database concepts.
- Ability to work independently and demonstrate initiative.
- Ability to communicate effectively with customers.
Qualifications
- TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph is required.
- Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field.
- CompTIA Security+ Certification.
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or AWS Certification such as Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer Certification.
Nice to Have
- Experience supporting Intelligence Community or Department of Defense environments.
- Experience supporting platform operations and sustainment in production environments.
- Experience supporting troubleshooting and outage response for large-scale systems.
- Experience implementing automation to streamline deployments, upgrades, and operational processes.
- Experience developing monitoring and alerting improvements to proactively identify issues.
- Experience supporting Infrastructure-as-Code and cloud-native platform environments.
- Knowledge of change management, operational support, and IT service management processes.
- Strong customer engagement and communication skills.