Forward Deployed Reliability Engineer

M9 Solutions | IT Services

1h ago

Hybrid

Full Time

United States of America

$220k - $230k USD/yr

Title: Forward Deployed Reliability Engineer Location: Washington, DC - Secret clearance required

M9 Solutions is dedicated to providing IT services and solutions to the Federal Government by mobilizing the right people, skills, clearance levels, and technologies to help organizations that desire improved performance and modern, sustainable change. M9 has provided quality IT services and support to more than 30 Federal Agencies and multiple commercial customers nationwide. Our capabilities include IT Talent Solutions, Data Delivery & Analytics, Cyber Security, Cloud Migration, Applications and Infrastructure, Software Development, and Finance & Accounting.

M9 Solutions is seeking a Forward Deployed Reliability Engineer for a hybrid role supporting a government contract for a client located in Washington, DC. An active Secret clearance is required.

Responsibilities

Keeps mission-critical data workflows running for a U.S. Government customer.
Takes on-call weeks and responds to critical outages, fixing issues before they reach users.
Turns lessons learned into scripts, automation, and product improvements.

Required Skills and Qualifications

Active Secret security clearance.
A background in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or another technical field.
Proficiency in Python, Java, and SQL.
Familiarity with parallel data processing and optimizing Spark jobs.
Root-cause analysis experience and documenting fixes so others can reuse them.
Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical people.
Availability to respond to critical outages during assigned on-call weeks.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

Experience optimizing large-scale distributed PySpark builds, or distributed compute with Polars or Pandas.
Experience debugging older code written by others.
Ability to own problems end to end with little oversight and prioritize competing issues.
Java or C++ software development experience.
TypeScript and data-platform experience.

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Full-Time Employee Compensation

M9 Solutions’ pay range for this position is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include, but are not limited to, responsibilities of the position, education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, as well as internal equity, location, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
M9 Benefits -

Salary Range

$220,000—$230,000 USD

M9 Solutions is a proud participant in the Virginia Values Veterans (V3) program and supports the Military Medics and Corpsmen (MMAC) initiative, demonstrating our commitment to hiring and supporting veterans, transitioning service members, military spouses, and dependents.

With 15+ years of proven delivery and growth, M9 Solutions is a unique small business with credible past performance and key capabilities offering project management services, solution architects, business analysts, program managers, technical architects, and technical consultants. M9 was recognized as an Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and 2012. M9 Solutions believes that work should be fun, rewarding, and something everyone can be excited about. We offer a competitive compensation package and value diverse perspectives in driving the vision of the company.

Required Skills

pythonjavasqlspark

Required Languages

🇬🇧 English