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# Site Reliability Engineer, Lead

- **Company:** Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
- **Location:** Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $99,000.0 - $225,000.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, CompTIA Security+, Cyber Security, Information Systems, Software Debugging, DevOps, Linux System Administration, Networking Basics, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Software Deployment, Data Logging, Scripting, Grafana, Reliability of Systems, Terraform, Splunk, Elk Stack
- **Published:** October 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://careers.boozallen.com/jobs/JobDetail?jobId=131921

## About the Role

* 8+ years of experience with monitoring, logging, and observability platforms, such as Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack
 * 8+ years of experience with Linux systems administration and networking fundamentals within AWS
 * Experience with Python scripting and automation
 * Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Terragrunt
 * Knowledge of Kubernetes administration, troubleshooting, and operations
 * TS/SCI clearance
 * HS diploma or GED
 * CompTIA Security+ Certification

Nice If You Have:

 * Experience with cybersecurity concepts, including threats, vulnerabilities, security operations, patching, boundary defense, auditing, or authentication
 * Experience with RHEL administrations
 * Knowledge of NIST 800-53
 * Bachelor's degree in IT, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or other related field
 * SSCP, CCNA-Security, or GSEC Certification

## Description

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) on our team, you'll be responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, scalability, and security of critical production systems and platforms. This role leads the design and implementation of observability, automation, incident response, and operational best practices across cloud and air-gapped environments, while partnering closely with DevOps, infrastructure, and security teams to improve system resilience and reduce operational risk. The Lead SRE also drives root cause analysis, capacity planning, reliability standards, and continuous improvement initiatives to support highly available, efficient, and scalable services. This is your chance to further your skills in cloud infrastructure and technologies while continuing to grow your SRE experience. You'll build and support a reliable site for the environment in order to meet the development and maintenance requirements of systems and platforms. Work with the development and operation
teams to evaluate the health, stability and reliability of systems and platforms. Design and develop technical tools to debug problems that occur in the deployment of applications, within specific platforms and systems.

Join our efforts to strengthen our security posture and safeguard national interests.