Cloud / SRE Engineer

Noblis is helping FAA manage large and complex telecommunications and information management programs that use state of the art technologies to deliver enterprise infrastructure services essential to the safe and efficient operation of the largest, safest, and most complex aviation system in the world. We are seeking smart, passionate, and motivated people to join our proven team in a challenging and rewarding work environment where you will be actively engaged at the intersection of technology and operations enhancing our nation's aviation system. If you want to be involved in acquiring, implementing, and managing the communications and information solutions to achieve our nation's aviation vision, this is the job for you!

This is an opportunity for an experienced, driven software solutions architect to join a dynamic team working to implement and manage the FAA's highly-visible System Wide Information Management (SWIM) program as part of the NextGen transformation strategy.

Lead the reliability, performance and operations workstreams for the FAA System-Wide Information Management (SWIM) Flight Data Publication Service (SFDPS) program: define RMA improvement plans, implement SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs/SLAs), lead incident response playbooks, and architect cloud-native solutions to meet FAA Efficiency Critical requirements during the migration.

Primary responsibilities

• Define and implement SRE program for SFDPS: set SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and runbooks tied to FAA Efficiency Critical objectives.
• Lead performance tuning, capacity planning, and high-availability design across containerized services.
• Design resilient architectures in the FAA cloud (multi-AZ, autoscaling, disaster recovery patterns).
• Drive CI/CD for safety- and compliance-focused deployments
• Define security controls and coordinate with Authorizing Officials and security SMEs to meet FedRAMP/FISMA and FAA baselines (hardening, secrets management, vulnerability scanning).
• Lead major incidents and postmortems; ensure permanent corrective actions to raise availability and maintainability.
• Provide architectural guidance, mentor mid/junior engineers, and represent the engineering team to stakeholders.

• Bachelor of Science degree and 9 years of relevant professional experience. Substitutions: Any subsitutions are subject to further customer review and approvals
• or Associates degree and 11 years of relevant professional experience
• or Masters degree and 6 yars of total relevant experience.
• A strong engineering background in systems reliability, cloud operations, and container platforms.
• Hands-on experience developing and maintaining Java-based applications, including debugging, optimization, and refactoring.
• Proficiency in a language suited for high-throughput systems, such as Java, Go, Python, or .NET for backend development
• Deep experience with Red Hat/OpenShift, Kubernetes architecture, and container security best practices.
• Proven SRE experience: defining SLIs/SLOs, implementing monitoring/alerting, and incident management.
• Strong IaC and automation experience (Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines).
• Practical experience working with C and/or C++ components, especially in integration with Java or containerization scenarios.
• Proficient scripting ability in Python, Bash, or similar to automate build, deploy, and cloud operations workflows.
• Hands-on experience in a FedRAMP/Government cloud environment and working with federal security/compliance controls strongly preferred.
• Proven experience with at least one major message broker, such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Solace, or NATS.
• Experience with data serialization formats, specifically JSON, XML, Avro, or Protobuf.
• Knowledge of messaging protocols like AMQP, MQTT, JMS, or STOMP.
• Understanding of asynchronous messaging patterns, pub-sub, and point-to-point queues.
• Strong communication, leadership, and cross-team coordination skills; Agile experience (Scrum, SAFe) and prior role as technical lead or site reliability lead.
• U.S. citizen or Green Card Permanent Resident (3+ years ouf of the last 5 years U.S. residency).
• Ability to obtain and maintain FAA Suitability.

Desired Qualifications

• Certifications: CKA, RHCE, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (GovCloud), CISSP, or similar.
• Prior FAA or ATM systems experience is highly desirable.
• Experience with Cloud-based messaging services (e.g.AWS SNS/SQS, Azure Service Bus, Google Pub/Sub).

Compensation at Noblis is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the combination of education, certifications, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, internal and external equity, location, clearance level, as well as contract-specific affordability, organizational requirements and applicable employment laws. The projected compensation range for this position is based on full time status. For part time or on-call staff, compensation is proportionately adjusted based on hours worked. While monetary compensation is important, it's just one component of Noblis' total compensation package.

Posted Salary Range

USD $105,100.00 - USD $164,125.00 /Yr.

Noblis and our wholly owned subsidiaries, Noblis ESI and Noblis MSD, take on some of the nation's toughest challenges, delivering advanced solutions to our customers' most critical missions. We bring together leading scientific, engineering, and management expertise in a culture grounded in objectivity and collaboration, ensuring our work creates lasting impact across federal missions. We work with a broad range of government agencies in the defense, intelligence, and federal civilian sectors. Learn more and find opportunities at careers.noblis.org (https://careers.noblis.org/about-noblis/) Why Work at Noblis At Noblis, we share a passion for excellence and innovation, and we create an environment where people can do meaningful work while maintaining the balance that keeps them energized and fulfilled. We seek out individuals with a natural curiosity and desire to collaborate and learn. We believe our people are our greatest strength, and we consistently seek exceptionally skilled, mission-driven professionals who care deeply about doing work that enriches lives and makes our nation safer. Noblis has earned numerous workplace awards (https://noblis.org/who-we-are/awards/) for our culture, our commitment to employee well-being, and our dedication to meaningful, impactful work. We also maintain a drug-free workplace. Remote/hybrid status is subject to change based on Noblis and/or government requirements.