Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Company:

The Boeing Company

The Boeing Company is looking for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to join the Air Dominance Site Reliability Engineering team located in Berkeley, MO . We are seeking a highly talented, motivated, and creative technical leader responsible for the reliability strategy, architecture, operational maturity, and long-term technical direction of mission-critical developer platforms used by Air Dominance engineering teams.

This role will provide technical leadership across GitLab, GitLab CI/CD runners, Jira, Confluence, PostgreSQL, related software delivery tools such as Artifactory and SonarQube, and the supporting infrastructure, automation, monitoring, backup, recovery, and security controls required to operate these services. The selected candidate will do the following; define standards, guide architecture decisions, mentor engineers, lead complex technical investigations, and partner with program leadership and stakeholders. They will ensure developer tooling remains secure, reliable, scalable, and are able to support.

Position 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, capacity models, backup strategies, and disaster recovery approaches

Serve as the senior technical authority for complex reliability, performance, scalability, integration, database, automation, and security-related platform decisions

Lead architecture and design reviews for developer tooling infrastructure, CI/CD runner topology, PostgreSQL operations, cloud-based and on-premises infrastructure, monitoring, alerting, access controls, and platform integrations

Drive automation, Infrastructure as Code, Ansible, configuration management, and repeatable operational patterns that reduce toil and improve reliability

Guide major upgrades, migrations, lifecycle planning, patch strategies, recovery planning, and technical roadmaps for supported platforms

Lead the most complex incidents and technical investigations, including root cause analysis, corrective action planning, and systemic reliability improvements

Mentor and technically guide SREs in operational excellence, troubleshooting, automation, secure administration, and architectural thinking

Partner with program leadership, cybersecurity, infrastructure, software engineering, database, networking, suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders

Identify platform risks, technical debt, capacity constraints, single points of failure, compliance concerns, and operational gaps, then drive remediation plans

Lead efforts to operationally field higher-quality end-to-end system software more frequently

Participate in after-hours support and escalation for urgent or mission-impacting issues as required

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience):

Bachelors Degree

This position requires the ability to obtain a US Security Clearance for which the US Government requires US Citizenship

This position requires ability to obtain access to Special Access Programs (SAP)

8+ years of experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or Bamboo

8+ years of experience enterprise architecture experience, including but not limited to cloud architecture, security, data privacy, integration, and deployment

5+ years of experience in root cause analysis and corrective action

5+ years of technical leadership and team leadership

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science and 14+ years of related work experience or Bachelor’s Degree and 18+ years of directly related work experience or 22+ years of related, relevant experience

Experience effectively communicating technical strategy, risk, tradeoffs, and recommendations to senior technical and program leadership

Vast experience administering or architecting GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, GitLab runners, or comparable enterprise source control and CI/CD platforms

Deep experience administering or architecting Jira, Confluence, or other Atlassian products in an enterprise environment

Deep experience with PostgreSQL architecture and operations, including backup and recovery, replication, performance tuning, storage planning, maintenance, and high-availability patterns

Experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Infrastructure as Code, Ansible, configuration management, containers, Docker, Kubernetes, virtualization, artifact management, secrets management, and secure software delivery practices

Experience administering or architecting Artifactory, SonarQube, Jenkins, or similar software delivery tools

Experience designing observability platforms, alerting strategies, SLO frameworks, service health dashboards, and operational reporting

Experience supporting Air Dominance, classified, air-gapped, or highly regulated engineering environments

Experience developing disaster recovery strategy, continuity of operations plans, recovery time objectives, recovery point objectives, and restore validation programs

Experience guiding cybersecurity hardening, vulnerability remediation, audit readiness, privileged access controls, and compliance-driven operations

Ability to obtain Security+ certification

Demonstrated ability to lead through influence across engineering teams, customers, suppliers, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and program stakeholders

Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to produce architecture documentation, executive briefings, technical roadmaps, and decision records

Travel:

10%

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace (DFW) where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

Conflict of Interest:

Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company's Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.

CodeVue Coding Challenge:

To be considered for this position you will be required to complete a technical assessment as part of the selection process. Failure to complete the assessment will remove you from consideration.

Pay & Benefits:

At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.

The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Potential signing bonus for eligible/qualified external candidates.

Summary Pay Range for Lead level (Level 5): $198,050– $267,950

Language Requirements:

Not Applicable

Education:

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent

Relocation:

This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.

Export Control Requirement:

This position must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements. To meet U.S. export control compliance requiremen