Site Reliability Engineer II

Reasonable Accommodations

Fearless complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and candidates with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please email hr@fearless.techto submit a formal request to Human Resources.

Compensation

Our Compensation System is designed to reward remarkable work, grow your impact and support the whole “you” over the course of your career.

We believe in paying people fairly, so we've established a compensation model aimed to ensure everyone at Fearless — regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, nationality, or negotiation skills — is given equal pay for equal work.

Salary

• Minimum Salary: $91,554
• Salary Midpoint: $119,020
• Maximum Salary: $146,486
• Hiring Range: $91,554 - 126,700

Location

• In-person, hybrid, and remote options are available. Our offices are located in Baltimore.
• This position is 100% Remote.

Employment Type

• Full-time

What you’ll be doing

We’re looking to change the world by building software with a soul, and we want your help.

The Site Reliability Engineer II implements reliable infrastructure solutions according to the strategic direction of the team. They enable efficient delivery of value to our customers through effective infrastructure and fast pipelines, empowering application developers to deliver at the speed desired for the project. The Site Reliability Engineer II also supports operations of the production environments including observability and troubleshooting issues (sometimes outside of normal business hours if mandated by the contract).

We need your Site Reliability Engineer skills! What other skills will help you succeed at Fearless? Glad you asked! We’re excited about candidates who can accomplish the following:

Responsibilities and Contributions

Organizational and Leadership Role

• Coaches and mentors others through example and direct coaching on infrastructure and automation skills.
• Takes initiative for their own growth through personal leadership.

Functional Role

• Decomposes tasks into discrete objectives to serve the strategic direction of the team.
• implements infrastructure and pipeline solutions with minimal direction in accordance with the project/organization technical standards.
• Resolves technical issues in software infrastructure like software-defined networks, databases, and compute resources.
• Advises the team on specific implementation options that meet business requirements.
• Designs and automates log collection, storage, and analysis.
• Automates security processes and vulnerability remediation.
• Contributes actively in team Agile processes through discussion and/or preparation.
• Manages the security posture of the system and helps maintain compliance with government regulations.
• Provides feedback to improve the team’s technical procedures.
• Delivers scripts and tooling that interacts with external APIs.
• Collaborates with other engineers and designers to implement features that meet design specifications and deliver business value.
• Addresses production issues and implements measures to prevent future issues of the same kind.
• Carries out implementation of Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for effective observability of critical systems.

Essential Skills, Experience, or Competencies

Must-Have Skills

• Ability to obtain security clearance required by the project: Public Trust clearance
• BS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar technology-related degree.
• A minimum of 6 years of professional experience as a Site Reliability/DevOps Engineer.
• Strong scripting proficiency in at least Bash and/or Python.
• Strong experience with implementing AWS cloud infrastructures.
• Strong experience in Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC) management processes and tools, specifically Terraform.
• Strong experience using and maintaining container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience with Linux, especially RHEL family, and Bash scripting.
• Experience supporting scalable and elastic applications on distributed architectures.
• Strong ability and understanding of securing systems on the application, network, and infrastructure layers.
• Experience managing network/compute/database infrastructure with infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience with server configuration processes and tools such as Chef, Ansible, or Puppet.
• Expert in basic git actions like cloning, creating branches, navigating between branches, staging code for commit, committing code, resetting, and merging.
• Proven ability to work under pressure and in fast-paced environments.
• Understanding of interfacing with external APIs (REST, JSON, Auth Tokens).
• Ability to operate and manage work, strategically reason, and build relationships and influence others.

Highly Desired Skills and Experience

• Prior local, state, and/or federal government project experience.
• Experience working with government or large industry clients.
• Understanding of Agile principles.
• Proficient in at least one programming language and web applications framework such as Node.js/Express, Python/Django, Go, Java 8+/Spring, Ruby/Rails, etc.
• Ability to manage, scale, and secure persistent data stores like databases (relational and document-oriented) and file stores (e.g. AWS EFS, AWS S3).
• Holds a current AWS Certified Developer Associate, Solutions Architecture Associate, or Solutions Architect Professional or similar certification in another cloud platform.
• Proficiency with advanced Git actions like rebasing, squashing, and cherry-picking.
• Holds a current CompTIA Security+ certification.

So, what’s next?

Over the years, we’ve honed our interview process to help ensure that every team member we hire is the right fit for us and that we’re the right fit for them. If we think you’re a good fit, we’ll get in touch and start scheduling your interviews! Depending on the role's/project's requirements, the interview process may include some differences. At the minimum

• Introductory Interview: This is where you and your recruiter will build rapport, explore your career and educational background, discuss salary expectations, role requirements, and set expectations for the interview process, specific to the position of interest.
• Technical Interview (Skills Fit): This is where we get into the nitty gritty of the project. During the Technical Interview, you’ll be interviewed by the technical team to dig more into your background and technical capabilities.
• Business Interview: At this point, you’ve made it to the final frontier! The Business Interview is when you’ll meet with Fearless leadership to dot the i’s, cross the t’s, and determine whether or not we’ll be moving forward with the hiring process.

About Fearless Digital

Fearless Digital builds software with a soul. As a division inside Fearless, we're part of its digital services integrator model to unlock the power of organizations, people and tech. Our division designs, engineers, and delivers digital solutions to solve problems and drive impact. Using iterative development cycles, we minimize risk for our customers and efficiently deliver intuitive and responsive technology. In this way, we help set the stage for tech to work better for people. That's not our only goal, though. We also strive to create a purple culture that makes our team members excited to come to work every day. We take a holistic approach to our people’s well-being, and our culture and benefits are designed to support our people in working the way they like best. We encourage our people to pursue their passions, both in and out of the office. With flexible schedules, continuing education support, and a family-friendly work environment, we’ve created a culture that allows our team to thrive professionally and personally.

Fearless believes in equal opportunity employment. We won’t discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, nationality, age, religion, disability, military status, or sexual orientation. As a company and as individuals, we’re committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for our team, our family members, our clients, our subcontractors, and our vendors.

Fearless Digital Benefits

Benefits Eligibility:

• Full-time team membersare eligible for benefits upon beginning employment at Fearless
• Part-time team members are only eligible for 8.75 days of safe & sick leave
• Interns and 1099 team members are not eligible for Fearless benefits

Our people make us who we are. We believe that every member of the Fearless team has something to share, and we value the unique viewpoint you’ll bring to our community. But we value your community, too, so we offer fulfilling work that stays in balance with the rest of life. Because everyone has different needs, desires, and goals, our benefits offer the choices and flexibility that our team members need to live well and succeed. Here are a few highlights of our benefits package, for full-time team members, exclusively:

• Life-friendly schedules
• Family-friendly workplace
• We cover 100% of your premium for our medical HSA plan + the deductible portion of HSA contributions, 80% of your premium for our HMO or PPO plans, and offer competitive dependent coverage. We cover 100% of dental and vision premiums for you and your dependents and offer medical and dependent care FSA options. We also offer life insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, and legal planning and support insurance.
• Tech, education / training, and wellness allowances
• Safe Harbor 401(k) plan with employer contributions (current match = 4%) and immediate vesting
• Referral bonus: Bring your friends! If someone you refer is hired, you’ll get a bonus of $6–12k!
• Total Pet Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Up 12 weeks of FMLA paid at 100%
• PTO is provided to team members as a lump sum allowance, not an accrual. PTO is prorated based on your start date (see table below) on a quarterly basis (with tenure-based increases), 8.75 days of sick leave, 11 federal holidays, their birthday (8 hours), up to 15 days for jury duty, and up to 3 days (24 hours) of bereavement leave per eligible instance.