Lead Site Reliability Engineer

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.