# Lead Site Reliability Engineer

**Company**: The Boeing Company
**Location**: Berkeley, MO
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $198,050– $267,950
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

The Boeing Company is looking for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to join the Air Dominance Site Reliability Engineering team located in Berkeley, MO.

This role will provide technical leadership across GitLab, GitLab CI/CD runners, Jira, Confluence, PostgreSQL, related software delivery tools such as Artifactory and SonarQube, and the supporting infrastructure, automation, monitoring, backup, recovery, and security controls required to operate these services.

The selected candidate will:

- Define standards, guide architecture decisions, mentor engineers, lead complex technical investigations, and partner with program leadership and stakeholders.

- Ensure developer tooling remains secure, reliable, scalable, and able to support.

**Responsibilities:**

- Define and lead the Site Reliability Engineering technical strategy for GitLab, CI/CD runners, Jira, Confluence, PostgreSQL, Artifactory, SonarQube, and related developer tooling infrastructure.

- Establish platform reliability architecture, operational standards, SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, KPIs, error budgets, observability patterns, capacity models, backup strategies, and disaster recovery approaches.

- Serve as the senior technical authority for complex reliability, performance, scalability, integration, database, automation, and security-related platform decisions.

- Lead architecture and design reviews for developer tooling infrastructure, CI/CD runner topology, PostgreSQL operations, cloud-based and on-premises infrastructure, monitoring, alerting, access controls, and platform integrations.

- Drive automation, Infrastructure as Code, Ansible, configuration management, and repeatable operational patterns that reduce toil and improve reliability.

- Guide major upgrades, migrations, lifecycle planning, patch strategies, recovery planning, and technical roadmaps for supported platforms.

- Lead the most complex incidents and technical investigations, including root cause analysis, corrective action planning, and systemic reliability improvements.

- Mentor and technically guide SREs in operational excellence, troubleshooting, automation, secure administration, and architectural thinking.

- Partner with program leadership, cybersecurity, infrastructure, software engineering, database, networking, suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders.

- Identify platform risks, technical debt, capacity constraints, single points of failure, compliance concerns, and operational gaps, then drive remediation plans.

- Lead efforts to operationally field higher-quality end-to-end system software more frequently.

- Participate in after-hours support and escalation for urgent or mission-impacting issues as required.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's Degree.

- Ability to obtain a US Security Clearance.

- Ability to obtain access to Special Access Programs (SAP).

- 8+ years of experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or Bamboo.

- 8+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, including cloud architecture, security, data privacy, integration, and deployment.

- 5+ years of experience in root cause analysis and corrective action.

- 5+ years of technical leadership and team leadership.

**Benefits:**

- Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.

- Health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs.

- Potential signing bonus for eligible/qualified external candidates.

- Summary Pay Range for Lead level (Level 5): $198,050– $267,950.

## Skills

### Required
- CI/CD tools
- Enterprise architecture
- Root cause analysis
- Technical leadership

### Nice to have
- GitLab
- Jira
- Confluence
- PostgreSQL
- Artifactory
- SonarQube
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Infrastructure as Code
- Ansible
- configuration management
- containers
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- virtualization
- artifact management
- secrets management
- secure software delivery practices

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