Job Description
At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. We?re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that?s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.
The Boeing Company is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Air Dominance Site Reliability Engineering team located in Berkeley, MO.
We are seeking a highly talented, motivated, and creative individual to operate, improve, and sustain mission-critical developer platforms used by Air Dominance engineering teams.
This role will provide hands-on technical ownership for GitLab, GitLab CI/CD runners, Jira, Confluence, PostgreSQL, and related software delivery tools such as Artifactory and SonarQube. The selected candidate will drive reliability improvements, automate operational workflows, troubleshoot complex incidents, lead planned maintenance activities, and help establish mature Site Reliability Engineering practices for the team.
Position Responsibilities:
Operate and maintain GitLab, GitLab CI/CD runners, Jira, Confluence, PostgreSQL, and related developer tooling infrastructure
Lead the deployment and configuration of software development technologies, including build servers, version control systems, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing frameworks
Lead administration of cloud-based and on-premises infrastructure using approved Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Linux, virtualization, or container platform capabilities
Serve as a technical owner for platform reliability, availability, performance, capacity, backup, recovery, and operational readiness
Lead troubleshooting for complex application, database, runner, pipeline infrastructure, network, storage, and performance issues
Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Ansible, and other automation for provisioning, configuration, platform scaling, health checks, reporting, backup validation, and routine operational tasks
Plan and execute approved changes, including application upgrades, security patches, database maintenance, runner lifecycle activities, and infrastructure updates
Establish and improve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, KPIs, error budgets, and operational metrics
Lead software development tool administration, maintenance, version upgrades, patch management, and integration between tools such as Jira, GitLab, Artifactory, Confluence, and SonarQube
Define, collect, analyze, and refine software delivery and platform reliability metrics to support data-driven decision making
Support incident response, root cause analysis, corrective action tracking, and post-incident reviews
Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance on SRE practices, secure administration, automation, and troubleshooting
Partner with developers, project administrators, cybersecurity personnel, infrastructure teams, database administrators, and program stakeholders
Improve runbooks, standard operating procedures, architecture documentation, and disaster recovery procedures
Evaluate platform risks, capacity trends, recurring incidents, and operational toil, then recommend and implement improvements
Lead demonstrations, monitor progress, and present technical status to customers and management
Lead process improvement efforts that help operationally field higher-quality end-to-end system software more frequently
Participate in after-hours support for urgent or mission-impacting issues as required
This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to workonsiteat one of the listed location options.
Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience):
Active Secret U.S. Security Clearance. (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active.)
Ability to obtain access to Special Access Programs (SAP)
Bachelor\'s Degree
9+ years of experience with DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, software engineering, and/or cloud engineering
Experience with GitLab, Azure DevOps and CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
Experience with technical leadership
Experience with designing and implementing scalable computing infrastructure for data solutions, including cloud architectures (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):
Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science and 9+ years of related work experience or Bachelor?s Degree and 13+ years of directly related work experience or 17+ years of related, relevant experience
Experience administering GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, GitLab runners, or comparable enterprise source control and CI/CD platforms
Experience administering Jira, Confluence, or other Atlassian products
Experience administering PostgreSQL, including backup and recovery, replication, query troubleshooting, storage management, and performance tuning
Experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Infrastructure as Code, Ansible, configuration management, container platforms, Docker, Kubernetes, virtualization, or cloud-native services
Experience with Artifactory, SonarQube, Jenkins, or similar software delivery tools
Experience designing or improving monitoring, alerting, dashboards, operational metrics, and SLOs
Experience supporting Air Dominance, classified, air-gapped, or highly regulated engineering environments
Experience with disaster recovery planning, continuity of operations, backup validation, and restore testing
Experience leading technical investigations, post-incident reviews, and corrective action plans
Ability to obtain Security+ certification
Demonstrated ability to balance customer urgency, system reliability, security requirements, and change control
Strong customer focus and ability to work with engineering teams, leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders
Conflict of Interest:
Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company?s Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.
Drug Free Workplace:
Boeingis a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.
CodeVue Coding Challenge:
To be considered for this position you will be required to complete a technical assessment as part of the selection process. Failure to complete the assessment will remove you from consideration.
Pay & Benefits:
At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, anda number ofprograms that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.
The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
Summary Pay Range: $160,650 - $217,350
Applications for this position will be accepted until Jul. 31, 2026
Export Control Requirements:
This position must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements. To meet U.S. export control compliance requirements, a ?U.S. Person? as defined by 22 C.F.R. 120.62 is required. ?U.S. Person? includes U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.
Export Control Details:
US based job, US Person required
Education
Bachelor\'s Degree or Equivalent Required
Relocation
This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.
Security Clearance
This position requires an active U.S. Secret Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required). (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active)
Visa Sponsorship
Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.
Shift
This position is for 1st shift
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
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