The SMX Space and Intelligence (S&I) Business Unit (BU) is on the ground floor across the future remote sensing ecosystem for all orbital regimes (LEO, MEO, HEO, and GEO). We build, integrate, and operationally support our customer's emerging space-ground systems to include real-time data processing frameworks, sensor data processing, and data visualization. We are teamed with the most passionate companies in industry, dedicated to bringing best-of-breed capabilities to address our customers most pressing needs.
We have an immediate opportunity for a Site Reliability Engineer who is excited to apply their talents to our customer's challenging project and one who will thrive in a collaborative environment. The ideal candidate is a recognized professional with hands-on expertise and an excellent understanding of engineering processes supporting large, National Defense, Agile software development programs.
Work will be performed in Colorado. Please apply to this role if you have interest in relocating to Colorado.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Support the availability, reliability, and performance of IaaS services supporting mission systems
- Monitor infrastructure health using metrics, logs, and alerts; respond to and resolve incidents
- Perform root-cause analysis for infrastructure and service outages; implement corrective and preventative actions Improve system reliability through automation, standardization, and proactive engineering
- Support capacity planning, performance analysis, and scaling of infrastructure services
- Maintain and enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions
- Participate in incident response, on-call rotations (as required), and post-incident reviews
- Collaborate with network, systems, platform, and application teams to resolve cross-stack issues
- Support infrastructure lifecycle activities including upgrades, patches, and configuration changes
- Apply security best practices and support compliance requirements in a regulated environment
- Develop and maintain runbooks, procedures, and operational documentation
- Contribute to CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows supporting IaaS services
- Participate in Agile ceremonies and operational planning activities
- Perform other duties as assigned
Required Skills & Experience
- Secret clearance
- 5+ years of professional experience in systems engineering, SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure operations
- Strong experience administering Linux systems
- Experience supporting on-prem, cloud, or hybrid infrastructure environments
- Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems
- Strong troubleshooting skills across compute, storage, networking, and OS layers
- Experience scripting or automating tasks using Bash, Python, or similar languages
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code concepts and tooling
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Detail-oriented, self-motivated, and able to own issues through resolution
- Ability to work on-site at the customer location
Desired Skills & Experience
- Experience working on an IaaS or platform operations team
- Experience with virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware vSphere)
- Experience supporting container platforms (Kubernetes, OpenShift)
- Experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GovCloud)
- Familiarity with SRE concepts such as SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and toil reduction
- Experience with configuration management or automation tools (Ansible, Terraform)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
- Experience operating systems in government or secure environments
- Experience with incident management and operational readiness reviews
Application Deadline: March 30, 2026
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At SMX®, we are a team of technical and domain experts dedicated to enabling your mission. From priority national security initiatives for the DoD to highly assured and compliant solutions for healthcare, we understand that digital transformation is key to your future success.
We share your vision for the future and strive to accelerate your impact on the world. We bring both cutting edge technology and an expansive view of what’s possible to every engagement. Our delivery model and unique approaches harness our deep technical and domain knowledge, providing forward-looking insights and practical solutions to power secure mission acceleration.
SMX is an Equal Opportunity employer including disabilities and veterans.
Selected applicant may be subject to a background investigation and/or education verification.
SMX does not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization or immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-2, E-3, L-1 and O-1, or any EADs or other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer).
