# Site Reliability Engineer - US Government

**Company:** [Palantir](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/palantir)
**Location:** Washington, DC
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Linux, Rhel, Kubernetes, Openshift, Docker, Podman, AWS, Azure, GCP, Prometheus, Python, Go, Java, Bash, JavaScript
**Posted:** 2020-04-22

> Site Reliability Engineer builds, operates, and maintains scalable infrastructure for air-gapped production environments, focusing on Linux servers, cloud/on-prem systems, automation, and troubleshooting. Requires 4+ years Linux admin experience, active security clearance, and proficiency in programming/scripting.

## Job Description

## Core Responsibilities
- Maintaining availability of cloud & physical Linux servers that power the Palantir platform in air-gapped production environments
- Design, deploy, and operate infrastructure to support customer & product requirements via modern orchestration & monitoring platforms.
- Collaborate closely with product teams on requirements & SLOs for deploying software into air-gapped environments.
- Identifying, troubleshooting, and solving network & systems issues
- Scripting to automate away routine operational tasks
- Provide technical troubleshooting support for production issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact on operations. Participate in a support on-call schedule

## What We Value
- Confidence in troubleshooting complex systems issues independently using stack traces and observability & systems tools
- Comfort with managing large scale production systems and technologies with configuration management, load balancing, monitoring & alerting infrastructure, and container orchestration
- Demonstrated ability to continuously learn and work independently, making decisions with minimal supervision while working in secure facilities
- Experience with containers (**Docker**/**Podman**) and orchestration (**OpenShift**/**Kubernetes**) at scale is a plus
- Preferred Certifications: DOD 8570 IAT Level II or greater (**CISSP**, **Sec+**), Unix/Linux Computing Environment (e.g **Linux+**, **RHCE**)

## What We Require
- Active security clearance
- 4+ years of experience with **Linux** system administration (**RHEL** or equivalent preferred)
- Experience with cloud-based hosting platforms like **AWS**, **Azure**, or **GCP** and/or experience with hardware-based environments
- Familiarity with monitoring systems using tools like **Prometheus** and writing health checks
- Proficiency with at least one programming language, such as **Java**, **Go**, **Python**, **JavaScript**, **Bash**, or similar languages.
- Strong engineering background, preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Data Science

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