senior software engineering Site Reliability Engineer ic · Posted Nov 13, 2025

About this role

Johns Hopkins APL is hiring a senior-level Site Reliability Engineer in the software engineering function based in Laurel, MD. The posting calls out experience with Python, R, Data Analytics.

Role
Site Reliability Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Location
Laurel, MD
Department
Systems Engineering
Posted
Nov 13, 2025
AI Summary
Senior-level Site Reliability Engineer providing subject matter expertise on reliability and resilience of strategic weapon systems. Develops reliability methodologies, conducts analyses, leads technical studies, and advises program sponsors on requirements, risk assessments, and system evaluation across multiple defense programs.

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Job description

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Description

Are you passionate about applying reliability and system engineering principles to analyze and assess the resilience of future strategic weapon systems?

Do you have a strong technical background in reliability engineering, safety engineering, or related experience in managing and evaluating the reliability, availability, maintainability (RAM) and resilience of weapon systems for national defense?

Are you motivated by working on multidisciplinary teams tackling some of the nation’s most critical security challenges?

 

If so, we are looking for someone like you to join the Reliability and Sustainment Engineering Team in the System Realization and Resilience Group (KBR) within the Force Projection Sector. Our team is responsible for enabling the realization of strategic systems, ensuring resilience and specialty disciplines are integrated throughout system development, and supporting credible verification of strategic weapon systems. We lead efforts in systems engineering, system security engineering, test and integration, digital engineering, nuclear command and control, and reliability engineering. As a member of our team, you will provide subject matter expertise to inform reliability strategies, methodologies, and assessments of existing and future strategic weapons systems. We are passionate about making critical contributions to these critically important programs, and you will be a key part of our success. With your help, we will remain at the forefront of weapon systems engineering for the Force Projection Sector.

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