Information Security Engineer - Site Reliability

The successful candidate will monitor system health, automate operational processes, investigate incidents, eliminate recurring problems, and collaborate with engineering, cybersecurity, network, and software teams. This position requires full-time, on-site support in Middletown, Rhode Island, with occasional travel to customer or program locations., * Operate, monitor, and maintain mission-critical applications, services, servers, and supporting infrastructure.

• Develop and maintain service-level indicators, objectives, and operational metrics to measure system reliability.
• Build dashboards, alerts, and automated health checks to identify availability, performance, capacity, and security issues.
• Investigate system incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Automate deployment, configuration, monitoring, recovery, and routine system-administration activities.
• Develop scripts and tools using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or comparable languages.
• Support continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines in accordance with program security and change-control requirements.
• Reduce operational toil by standardizing processes and automating repetitive tasks.
• Support infrastructure provisioning and configuration using approved infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management tools.
• Analyze system performance, capacity, reliability, and resource utilization and recommend improvements.
• Develop and test backup, restoration, failover, disaster-recovery, and continuity-of-operations procedures.
• Participate in release planning, deployment readiness reviews, maintenance activities, and production validation.
• Support vulnerability identification, system hardening, patching, remediation, and security compliance activities.
• Apply applicable DoD cybersecurity requirements and Security Technical Implementation Guides.
• Create and maintain system diagrams, operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, incident reports, and configuration documentation.
• Coordinate with software developers, system administrators, cybersecurity personnel, network engineers, and customer representatives.
• Participate in scheduled maintenance and provide after-hours or on-call support when required.
• Travel occasionally to customer or program sites.

• U.S. Citizenship.
• Active DoD SECRET security clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, cybersecurity, engineering, or a related discipline and approximately three years of relevant experience. Additional relevant experience, education, or technical training may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Journeyman-level experience in site reliability engineering, DevSecOps, systems engineering, software engineering, systems administration, or infrastructure operations.
• Experience administering Linux and/or Windows server environments.
• Experience with scripting or software development using Python, Bash, PowerShell, Go, or a similar language.
• Experience with system monitoring, logging, alerting, performance analysis, and incident response.
• Working knowledge of:
• TCP/IP networking and common network services
• Server, storage, virtualization, and application infrastructure
• Source-code management and version-control practices
• Configuration management and deployment automation
• System security, access controls, patching, and vulnerability remediation
• Backup, recovery, and service-continuity practices
• Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues across application, operating system, network, and infrastructure layers.
• Ability to create clear technical documentation and communicate technical findings to engineering and customer stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a controlled, on-site environment.
• Ability and willingness to travel occasionally., * Experience supporting classified systems, DoD networks, or mission-critical environments.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic Stack, Splunk, Nagios, or similar tools.
• Experience with automation and configuration-management technologies such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or Salt.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
• Experience with containers and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.
• Experience with VMware, KVM, or comparable virtualization platforms.
• Familiarity with reliability-engineering practices, including service-level indicators, service-level objectives, error budgets, blameless post-incident reviews, and capacity planning.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices, automated security testing, and software supply-chain security.
• Knowledge of DoD cybersecurity requirements, DISA STIGs, vulnerability-scanning tools, and Risk Management Framework processes.
• Relevant certifications, such as:
• CompTIA Security+, Linux+, Network+, or Server+
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator or Engineer
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator
• Cloud, DevOps, or site reliability engineering certification
• Familiarity with undersea platforms or previous fleet experience is highly desired.

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is committed to pay transparency for our applicants and employee-owners. The salary range for this position is USD $85,000.00/Yr. - USD $125,000/Yr. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors permitted by law. AMERICAN SYSTEMS provides for the welfare of its employees and their dependents through a comprehensive benefits program by offering healthcare benefits, paid leave, retirement plans, insurance programs, and education and training assistance.