Information Security Engineer - Site Reliability
American Systems · Middletown, RI, US
About this role
## Overview AMERICAN SYSTEMS is seeking a **Journeyman-level Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)** to improve the **availability, performance, security, and operational resilience** of mission-critical systems in a **Department of Defense** environment. The SRE will combine **systems administration, software engineering, automation, and operational support** practices to build reliable, scalable services. **Location:** Full-time, on-site in **Middletown, Rhode Island** (occasional travel to customer/program locations) --- ## Responsibilities - Operate, monitor, and maintain mission-critical applications, services, servers, and supporting infrastructure - Develop and maintain **service-level indicators (SLIs), objectives (SLOs), and operational metrics** - Build **dashboards, alerts, and automated health checks** for availability, performance, capacity, and security - Investigate incidents, perform **root-cause analysis**, and implement corrective/preventive actions - Automate **deployment, configuration, monitoring, recovery**, and routine system administration - Develop scripts/tools using **Python, Bash, PowerShell**, or comparable languages - Support **CI/CD pipelines** in accordance with program security and change-control requirements - Reduce operational toil by standardizing processes and automating repetitive tasks - Support infrastructure provisioning/configuration using approved **infrastructure-as-code** and configuration management tools - Analyze performance/capacity/reliability/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 - Apply applicable **DoD cybersecurity requirements** and **Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs)** - Create/maintain system diagrams, operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, incident reports, and configuration documentation - Coordinate with software developers, system administrators, cybersecurity, network engineers, and customer representatives - Participate in scheduled maintenance and provide **after-hours/on-call support** as required - Travel occasionally to customer/program sites --- ## Qualifications ### Required - **U.S. Citizenship** - **Active DoD SECRET security clearance** - Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Cybersecurity/Engineering or related field **and ~3 years** relevant experience - Additional relevant experience/education/training may substitute for a degree - Journeyman-level experience in SRE, DevSecOps, systems engineering, software engineering, systems administration, or infrastructure operations - Experience administering **Linux and/or Windows** server environments - Scripting/software development experience with **Python, Bash, PowerShell, Go**, or similar - Experience with **monitoring, logging, alerting, performance analysis, and incident response** - Working knowledge of: - TCP/IP networking and common network services - Server/storage/virtualization/application infrastructure - Source-code management/version control - Configuration management and deployment automation - System security, access controls, patching, and vulnerability remediation - Backup/recovery/service continuity - Ability to troubleshoot complex issues
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