Site Reliability Engineer, #1130 Application Monitoring • Production Support • Incident Management • Splunk • AppDynamics • ITIL • Root Cause Analysis • System Reliability • CBP/DHS Location: Ashburn, VA | Onsite, 5 days per week Shifts: 3:00 PM - 11:00 PM Sun thru Thurs 3:00 PM - 11:00 PM Tues thru Sat 11:00 PM - 7:00 AM Sun thru Thurs 11:00 PM - 7:00 AM Tues thru Sat Flexibility to support alternate shifts when coverage is needed is required. Clearance: U.S. Citizenship is required. Must possess a current CBP Public Trust, DHS clearance, or active Top Secret clearance with a background investigation completed within the past three years. Dev Technology Group is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our mission-focused team supporting critical applications for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). In this role, you'll help keep essential systems running smoothly through proactive monitoring, incident response, troubleshooting, and coordination with technical support teams. You'll be part of a collaborative team responsible for monitoring applications around the clock, identifying potential disruptions before they become larger issues, and helping maintain the reliability of systems that support important government operations. We're looking for someone who enjoys solving problems, can manage multiple priorities, and remains focused when responding to time-sensitive technical issues. What You'll Be Doing: Monitor mission-critical applications and systems to identify performance issues, service disruptions, and potential outages before they impact operations. Respond to system alerts, troubleshoot incidents, assess severity, and coordinate timely resolution with application, infrastructure, and network support teams. Support the Passenger Services Program Directorate's (PSPD) suite of customer-facing applications, helping maintain system availability and performance. Track, document, and update incidents, including business impact, root cause, co
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About Backblaze Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands. Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $100m in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud - managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals. But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almos
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6–8 years of experience in site reliability engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure operations, database engineering, or similar roles, with meaningful experience supporting production database systems. Deep hands-on experience with MySQL and distributed or sharded database systems. Experience with Vitess in a production environment strongly preferred. Experience administering and supporting NoSQL databases such as Cassandra. Experience designing high-availability database architecture, replication topology, backup strategies, and disaster recovery processes. Strong SQL skills, including query performance analysis, indexing, schema design, and troubleshooting. Solid Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills. Experience with security-focused operations including patching, system hardening, access controls, and vulnerability remediation. Strong understanding of service reliability concepts including monitoring, alerting, incident response, root cause analysis, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets. Experience working with containers and orchestration platforms including Kubernetes and Docker. Comfortable operating in Kubernetes and Vitess environments using tools such
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