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# Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Hybrid)

- **Company:** BAE Systems
- **Location:** San Diego, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $118,095.0 - $200,762.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon S3, Software Applications, Cloud Computing, OpenStack, Reliability Engineering, Azure Active Directory, Ansible, Virtualization Technology, Ceph (Software), Kubernetes Helm Charts, Juniper, SC Clearance, Kubernetes, Storage Technologies, Terraform, Vmware
- **Published:** August 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/2C2CD6068B8141F5867BB6788BEC57C0/job/

## About the Role

* Must be able to obtain a Secret clearance and be eligible for TS/SCI clearance in the near future
 * 4 to 6 years in the realm of Site Reliability Engineering
 * Experience with Juniper networking
 * A desire to deliver excellence and a focus on meeting user needs
 * An understanding of cloud technologies and service lifecycle management.
 * Experience in deploying capabilities and services through automation like Ansible or Helm Charts
 * Experience with storage technologies like NFS, JDFS, Ceph, Object Storage (S3)
 * Familiarity with virtualization technologies such as VMware, Open Stack, or Azure Stack
 * Proactive approach to identifying and resolving performance issues
 * Security or equivalent or ability to obtain a Security within 90 days

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

 * 4 year degree in engineering-related discipline
 * Active Secret or Higher Clearance
 * Familiarity in Kubernetes and similar technologies.
 * Experience working in cross-functional teams.
 * Experience with coding beyond simple scripting.
 * Experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform

## Description

* Deliver Excellence: Work in a team of SREs to ensure seamless, continuous service delivery.
 * Innovate and Implement: From concept to execution, bring service methodologies to life.
 * Be the Problem Solver: Tackle complex service requests, ensuring swift and efficient resolutions.
 * Measurement and Monitoring: Instrument and measure key performance indicators of the production environment to enable continuous improvement.
 * Support the Infrastructure: Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large-scale distributed software applications
 * Scale systems through automation
 * Communicate and Collaborate: Coordinate with cross-team members to complete tasks.

Because this role involves a combination of collaborative/in-person and independent work, it will take the form of a hybrid work format, with time split between working onsite and remotely.


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