Job Description
Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer Department: Engineering Reports to: Manager DevSecOps Owl Cyber Defense is a leader and trusted partner in cyber security. We deliver solutions that protect and connect the world’s most critical networks. Owl’s product lines of cross domain, data diode, and portable media solutions provide the strongest available security checkpoints for threat prevention and secure data availability. Our in-depth expertise in security engineering at the operating system level enables us to help government and commercial customers meet ever-evolving cyber security threats.
Job Summary: Owl Cyber Defense is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer/DevSecOps professional to support and enhance on-premises infrastructure and secure system operations. This role focuses on maintaining highly reliable, Linux-based systems, automating workflows, and responding to incidents in restricted and secure environments. The ideal candidate has experience managing on-premises virtualization (VMware), networking (TCP/UDP), and infrastructure automation (Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes) while supporting CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, TeamCity) for system provisioning and security hardening.
Your efforts will contribute to the successful development and testing of complex systems, ensuring the delivery of products with the highest quality that meet the needs of the customer base.
The ability to make actionable decisions based off all currently known information is a must. A successful candidate is independent, organized, methodical, resourceful, energetic, a fast learner, and open to new ideas / experiences.
This role offers a hybrid work arrangement, allowing for remote work while maintaining the ability to commute to our Morrisville, NC office for key meetings, team collaboration, and in-person tasks.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: - Provide user-focused support, ensuring teams remain productive by resolving technical issues efficiently.
- Monitor and maintain system health through proactive log review, outage management, and robust incident response practices.
- Develop and implement automation solutions using Bash or Python.
- Manage and optimize on-premises infrastructure, including physical and virtualized environments using VMware, Terraform, and Kubernetes. This role does not focus on public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCPCollaborate with teams to enhance on-premises CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation, system provisioning, and security-hardening processes using tools like Jenkins and TeamCity.
- Maintain and configure Linux systems, with a preference for expertise in RHEL environments.
- Work with system monitoring and log collection tools to ensure reliability and visibility.
- Manage code repositories and version control using Git, promoting best practices across teams.
- Support configuration management and deployment processes using tools like Ansible and IaC methodologies.
- Contribute to tool integration and platform support, including Jira, Confluence, GitLab and Artifactory.
- Support and maintain on-premises networking environments, including managed switches, firewalls, and secure data transfer systems. Experience working with air-gapped or restricted environments is a plus.
- Liaison and collaborate with Owl IT for joint operations.
- Lead more junior level engineers and/or interns.
Requirements/Qualifications: - Education
- Bachelors’ degree or higher in Software Engineering or related field required.
- Experience
- 5-8 years of experience in experience in an SRE, DevOps, or similar role.
- Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Strong programming skills in Python (required).
- Experience with TCP / UDP networking.
- Experience with version control systems such as Git (required).
- Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, and Ansible for on-premises infrastructure automation (preferred).
- Experience code collaboration tools such as GitLab (preferred).
- Experience managing git repositories, branch management, and development workflow.
- Strong experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or TeamCity (preferred).
- Experience with Virtualization, such as VMware (preferred).
- Experience tracking tasking and internal wiki content via Jira/Confluence.
- Working knowledge of Red Hat Linux and its derivatives (Fedora, CentOS). RHCSA is a plus, but not necessary.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Strong understanding of development processes.
Clearance Requirement
- US Citizenship required as candidates must be able to obtain and maintain security clearance.
About Owl Cyber Defense Solutions, LLC Owl Cyber Defense Solutions, LLC is a fast-growing cybersecurity solutions company, holding a firm leadership position in network security and secure information transfer. It is a privately-owned US company with offices in Columbia, MD, Danbury, CT and Morrisville, NC. For more information, see .
Owl Cyber Defense is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment.
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