Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Boeing
United States
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 198,050 - 267,950 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 8+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Team leadership","Mentorship","Troubleshooting","Technical communication"]

Lead the Site Reliability Engineering strategy and reliability architecture for mission-critical developer platforms supporting Air Dominance engineering teams. Own standards and operational maturity for GitLab, GitLab CI/CD runners, Jira, Confluence, PostgreSQL, and delivery tools like Artifactory and SonarQube. Define SLO/SLI frameworks, observability, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery, lead complex incident investigations, and mentor SREs across secure, scalable platform operations.

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Boeing
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Lead Site Reliability Engineer

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Job Summary

Lead the Site Reliability Engineering strategy and reliability architecture for mission-critical developer platforms supporting Air Dominance engineering teams. Own standards and operational maturity for GitLab, GitLab CI/CD runners, Jira, Confluence, PostgreSQL, and delivery tools like Artifactory and SonarQube. Define SLO/SLI frameworks, observability, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery, lead complex incident investigations, and mentor SREs across secure, scalable platform operations.
Location: United States
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and lead the Site Reliability Engineering technical strategy for GitLab, CI/CD runners, Jira, Confluence, PostgreSQL, Artifactory, SonarQube, and related developer tooling infrastructure.
  • •Establish platform reliability architecture, operational standards, SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, KPIs, error budgets, observability patterns, backup, and disaster recovery approaches.
  • •Serve as senior technical authority for complex reliability, performance, scalability, integration, database operations, automation, and security-related platform decisions.
  • •Lead architecture/design reviews and drive automation using Infrastructure as Code and Ansible to reduce toil and improve reliability.
  • •Lead the most complex incidents and technical investigations, perform root cause analysis with corrective action planning, and mentor SREs in operational excellence and secure administration.
Travel: Low travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 198,050 - 267,950 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceFlexible SpendingRetirement SavingsLife InsuranceDisability InsuranceRelocationPaid LeaveAnnual Bonus

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor's degree (or equivalent).
  • •Ability to obtain a US Secret Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required) and access to Special Access Programs (SAP).
  • •8+ years of experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or Bamboo.
  • •8+ years of enterprise architecture experience across cloud architecture, security, data privacy, integration, and deployment.
  • •5+ years of experience in root cause analysis and corrective action, with technical/team leadership.
Experience:8+ years
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Technical leadershipTeam leadershipMentorshipTroubleshootingTechnical communication
Certifications:Security+
Tech Stack:GitLabGitLab CI/CDGitLab runnersJiraConfluencePostgreSQLArtifactorySonarQubeJenkinsBambooInfrastructure as CodeAnsibleConfiguration managementAWSMicrosoft AzureDockerKubernetesVirtualizationSecrets managementObservability

Eligibility

Nationality:US National
Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.
Security Clearance:Secret

Company Brief

Boeing
Designs, manufactures, and services commercial airplanes, defense systems, space vehicles, and related products and services globally. Boeing serves airlines, governments, and commercial customers with aerospace and defense technologies and integrated support solutions.
Industry: Aerospace Manufacturing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Arlington, United States
Founded: 1916
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