What are the responsibilities and job description for the Site Reliability Engineer position at NFF Inc?
About NFF
Networking for Future, Inc. (NFF) is a Washington, DC based company offering a performance-focused approach to delivering transformational IT business solutions. We take pride in keeping users productive and engaged by providing business and IT teams with the solutions they need to improve their performance in a dynamic, connected world.
NFF is the only Cisco Gold Partner headquartered in the District of Columbia with Advanced Specializations in all major IT disciplines. In addition to Cisco, NFF holds key strategic partnerships with VMware, NetApp, Microsoft, Riverbed, Splunk and many System Integrators. NFF is an ISO 9001:2015 certified company and has been ranked in Inc. Magazine's 500/5000 Fastest Growing Companies list since 2007.
We offer expert solutions relevant to: Network Infrastructures, Data Center & Cloud, Network & Endpoint Security, Application Assurance, Collaboration & Mobility and Staff Augmentation.
About this Position / Responsibilities
Leveraging Agile processes our teams deliver incrementally in lockstep with our customers’ needs and expectations. We use AWS based services to ensure modern and scalable architectures.
- Ability to program (structured and OO) with one or more high level languages, such as Python, Java, C/C , Ruby, and JavaScript.
- Experience with cloud storage technologies as well as dynamic resource management frameworks (Mesos, Kubernetes, Yarn)
- A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks.
- 5 years of experience with Cloud Architecture, preferably AWS.
- 10 years of experience with Operations of enterprise systems with over million users.
- 10 years of experience with application development.
- 5 years of experience in DevSecOps.
- 3 years of experience with microservices.
- 5 years of experience leading teams.
- 3 years of experience with agile Role & Responsibilities.
- Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health.
- Build software and systems to manage/operate platform infrastructure and applications.
- Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions.
- Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve.
- Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large distributed software applications.
- Ensure Production readiness for releases which includes Performance/Usability Testing.
- Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding.
- Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures.
- Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning.
- Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts.
- Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives.
- Production incidents RCAs and Conducting post-incident reviews.
- Optimizing on-call rotations and processes.
- Constant upkeep of documentation and runbooks.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s/Masters degree in computer science or other highly technical, scientific discipline.
- Experience with GSA Assisted Acquisition Services (AAS) systems, Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) IT, or Technology Transformation Service (TTS).
- Experience with GSA’s FCS (FAS Cloud Services).
- AWS Cloud experience and certifications.
- An understanding of the business processes and tools supporting federal acquisitions.
NFF Disclosures
NFF offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits and flexible paid time off options, for eligible employees:
- Medical, Dental and Vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account
- STD, LTD, Supplemental life insurance and ADD&D
- Comprehensive 401k plan
- Paid Time Off
NFF is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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