Momentum Engineering, Inc. fosters an employee-centric culture. Our strength lies in our people. With a high percentage of employees holding advanced degrees in engineering, computer science, and related disciplines, we bring deep technical expertise to every mission. Our team includes professionals with security clearances and full-scope polygraphs, ensuring trusted, secure support for the most sensitive national security initiatives. Additionally, our workforce is equipped with industry-leading certifications, demonstrating a commitment to continuous learning and excellence. Most importantly, our exceptional employee retention rate reflects a culture of professional growth, mission focus, and dedication—ensuring long-term stability and expertise for our customers’ critical needs.
Job Summary
- Seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to support a cloud-based platform built with Java and Free and Open-Source Software technologies, including Kubernetes, Hadoop, and Accumulo
- The platform enables the execution of data-intensive analytics across managed infrastructure in a mission-focused environment
- The ideal candidate is self-motivated, detail-oriented, and able to thrive in a fast-paced team environment while proactively identifying and resolving operational issues
- This is an on-call position and includes Tier 1 through Tier 3 support responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities
- Support the operation, administration, reliability, and availability of cloud-based infrastructure and platform services
- Provide Tier 1 through Tier 3 technical support for operational issues affecting users, applications, and infrastructure
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex system, application, networking, and infrastructure issues within Linux environments
- Monitor system health, availability, performance, and operational status
- Support distributed computing technologies including Kubernetes, Hadoop, and Accumulo
- Support containerized applications and services using Docker and Kubernetes
- Develop and maintain automation and administrative scripts using Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages
- Support Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) environments
- Use monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana to identify and resolve operational issues
- Support configuration management and automation tools such as Salt and Ansible
- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and continuous improvement activities
- Support virtualization, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure environments
- Document troubleshooting procedures, operational processes, system changes, and recurring issues
- Collaborate with developers, system administrators, engineers, and mission stakeholders to maintain reliable and scalable platform operations
- Participate in on-call support and respond to operational issues as required
Required Qualifications
- Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field is highly desired and may be considered equivalent to two (2) years of experience
- A Master’s degree in a technical field may be considered equivalent to four (4) years of experience
- Degrees in Mathematics, Information Systems, Engineering, or similar disciplines will be considered technical degrees
- Fourteen (14) years of relevant technical experience
- Strong experience troubleshooting operational issues in Linux environments
- DoD 8570 IAT Level I certification or higher
- Ability to provide Tier 1 through Tier 3 support in a mission-critical environment
- Candidates must possess at least one of the following certifications:
- AWS Certified Developer – Associate
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
- Elastic Certified Engineer
- Elastic Certified Observability Engineer
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with one or more of the following technologies is beneficial:
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Hadoop
- Apache Accumulo
- Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
- Python
- Bash
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- JIRA
- Salt
- Ansible
- Virtualization technologies
- OpenStack
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Exempt hourly position. 11 paid holidays, minimum of 3 weeks PTO, company sponsored group medical plan, company paid dental, vision, life insurance, and STD/LTD plans. Salary is dependent upon the candidate’s experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph
- Fourteen years of relevant technical experience
- Strong experience troubleshooting operational issues in Linux environments
- DoD 8570 IAT Level I certification or higher
- Ability to provide Tier 1 through Tier 3 support in a mission-critical environment
- At least one of the following certifications: AWS Certified Developer Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate, CKAD, Elastic Certified Engineer, or Elastic Certified Observability Engineer
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- Master's degree in a technical field
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Hadoop, Apache Accumulo, HDFS, Python, Bash, Prometheus, Grafana, JIRA, Salt, Ansible, virtualization, OpenStack, or AWS
What We Do
Momentum Engineering understands that our customer's unique missions require innovative software solutions and data-driven engineering methodologies. These approaches leverage DevOps principles and cloud-based automation ensuring that applications and systems can be characterized and reliably measured. Our specialists, working as trusted partners to our customers, have been developing, integrating and maintaining data-centric solutions since our founding in February 2015. Momentum Engineering provides highly-skilled System Engineers, Software Engineers, and formally trained Department of Defense Test and Evaluation Subject Matter Experts to our customers to help them move their missions forward.








