Job Description
Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer/DevSecOps Department: Engineering Reports to: Manager DevSecOps Owl Cyber Defense is a leader and trusted partner in cyber security. We deliver solutions that protect and connect the world’s most critical networks. Owl’s product lines of cross domain, data diode, and portable media solutions provide the strongest available security checkpoints for threat prevention and secure data availability. Our in-depth expertise in security engineering at the operating system level enables us to help government and commercial customers meet ever-evolving cyber security threats.
Job Summary: Owl seeking a passionate and skilled SRE/DevOps Engineer to join our team. This role focuses on supporting our internal teams, enabling their success by maintaining reliable systems, automating workflows, and responding to incidents with empathy and expertise. The ideal candidate thrives in a Linux-focused environment, has a strong background in system monitoring and automation, and demonstrates a user-first mindset to unblock productivity and improve operational efficiency.
Your efforts will contribute to the successful development and testing of complex systems, ensuring the delivery of products with the highest quality that meet the needs of the customer base.
The ability to make actionable decisions based off all currently known information is a must. A successful candidate is independent, organized, methodical, resourceful, energetic, a fast learner, and open to new ideas / experiences.
This role offers a hybrid work arrangement, allowing for remote work while maintaining the ability to commute to our Morrisville, NC office for key meetings, team collaboration, and in-person tasks.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: - Provide user-focused support, ensuring teams remain productive by resolving technical issues efficiently.
- Monitor and maintain system health through proactive log review, outage management, and robust incident response practices.
- Develop and implement automation solutions using Bash or Python.
- Manage and optimize infrastructure, including virtualization environments such as VMware and tools like Terraform and Kubernetes.
- Collaborate with teams to enhance CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins and TeamCity.
- Maintain and configure Linux systems, with a preference for expertise in RHEL environments.
- Work with system monitoring and log collection tools to ensure reliability and visibility.
- Manage code repositories and version control using Git, promoting best practices across teams.
- Support configuration management and deployment processes using tools like Ansible and IaC methodologies.
- Contribute to tool integration and platform support, including Jira, Confluence, GitLab and Artifactory.
- Assist in network-related tasks, with a preference for candidates with experience configuring managed switches or holding network certifications.
- Liaison and collaborate with Owl IT for joint operations.
- Lead more junior level engineers and/or interns.
Requirements/Qualifications: - Education
- Bachelors’ degree or higher in Software Engineering or related field required.
- Experience
- 5-8 years of experience in experience in an SRE, DevOps, or similar role.
- Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Strong programming skills in Python (required).
- Experience with TCP / UDP networking.
- Experience with version control systems such as Git (required).
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Strong understanding of development processes.
- Experience code collaboration tools such as GitLab (preferred).
- Experience managing git repositories, branch management, and development workflow.
- Strong experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or TeamCity (preferred).
- Experience with Virtualization, such as VMware (preferred).
- Experience tracking tasking and internal wiki content via Jira/Confluence.
- Working knowledge of Red Hat Linux and its derivatives (Fedora, CentOS). RHCSA is a plus, but not necessary.
- Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain a US Government security clearance.
About Owl Cyber Defense Solutions, LLC Owl Cyber Defense Solutions, LLC is a fast-growing cybersecurity solutions company, holding a firm leadership position in network security and secure information transfer. It is a privately-owned US company with offices in Columbia, MD, Danbury, CT and Morrisville, NC. For more information, see .
Owl Cyber Defense is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment.
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