Junior Site Reliability Engineer

11 Months ago • 1-2 Years • Devops

Job Summary

Job Description

Cubic Transportation Systems is seeking a Junior Site Reliability Engineer to assist in the design, build, and maintenance of infrastructure and deployment systems. This role involves hands-on collaboration with development teams and senior SREs to ensure reliable, scalable, and well-instrumented systems. The Junior SRE will learn and apply best practices in building automated solutions, focusing on repeatability and documentation. Responsibilities include assisting with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Terraform, supporting CI/CD pipelines, implementing monitoring and logging stacks, and participating in reliability reviews and post-incident analysis. The ideal candidate will have 1-2 years of experience in a related role, basic cloud computing knowledge (AWS), familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes concepts, and proficiency in scripting languages.
Must have:
  • 1-2+ years in DevOps, SRE, or related role
  • Basic cloud computing concepts (AWS)
  • Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
  • Exposure to CI/CD principles and tools
  • Experience with IaC tools (Terraform/CloudFormation)
  • Proficiency in scripting (Bash/Python)
  • Basic understanding of monitoring/logging
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Problem-solving aptitude
Good to have:
  • Experience with AWS ECS
  • Familiarity with Argo CD
  • Exposure to Prometheus and Grafana

Job Details

Business Unit:

Cubic Transportation Systems

Company Details:

When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.

We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Explore more on Cubic.com.

Job Details:

The Junior Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for assisting in the design, build, and maintenance of the infrastructure and deployment systems that underpin our live environments. This role is hands-on and highly collaborative, working closely with development teams and senior SREs to ensure our systems are reliable, scalable, and well-instrumented. Junior SREs are expected to learn and apply best practices in building robust, automated solutions, and to ensure their work is repeatable and understandable by others. Every contribution should be accompanied by documentation to support knowledge-sharing within the team and across engineering.

Core Responsibilities

  • Infrastructure Design & Maintenance
    • Assist in building and maintaining infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
    • Support the provisioning and lifecycle management of production, staging, and other critical environments.
    • Help implement shared infrastructure components (e.g., logging, metrics, service mesh, load balancing).
    • Contribute to improving infrastructure scalability, availability, and performance under the guidance of senior engineers.
    • Collaborate with development teams to provide infrastructure support for their deployment needs.
  • Deployment Systems & CI/CD
    • Support and help extend CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Argo CD) to improve reliability and automation of deployments.
    • Help promote consistency and best practices across environments for deployment, rollback, and observability.
    • Work with developers to streamline testing and delivery of code to production.
    • Assist in reducing manual steps in the deployment and operations workflows.
  • Reliability, Observability & Tooling
    • Assist in the implementation and maintenance of our monitoring, alerting, and logging infrastructure (Kube-Prometheus-Grafana stack).
    • Help track SLOs/SLIs for core services in partnership with service owners.
    • Learn to identify and help eliminate single points of failure, performance bottlenecks, and sources of instability.
    • Participate in reliability reviews and post-incident analysis.
  • Documentation & Knowledge Sharing
    • Ensure that all systems and processes you work on are accompanied by thorough, up-to-date documentation.
    • Contribute to shared knowledge bases, runbooks, and developer-facing onboarding materials.
    • Participate in internal training sessions and pairings to learn from teammates.
  • Collaboration & Culture
    • Work closely with the SRE Lead and other team members to execute work aligned with team goals.
    • Engage constructively with other teams across engineering.
    • Participate in on-call rotations with strong support from senior members.
    • Embrace a culture of blameless learning, transparency, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications & Skills

  • Experience: 1-2+ years in a DevOps, SRE, or related role.
  • Cloud: Basic understanding of cloud computing concepts, with some hands-on experience in AWS.
  • Containers & Orchestration: Familiarity with Docker and a foundational understanding of Kubernetes concepts. Experience with AWS ECS is a plus.
  • CI/CD: Exposure to CI/CD principles and tools like GitHub Actions. Familiarity with Argo CD is a bonus.
  • IaC: Some experience with or exposure to Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
  • Scripting: Proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g., Bash, Python).
  • Observability: A basic understanding of monitoring and logging. Exposure to Prometheus and Grafana is desirable.
  • Collaboration: Strong communication skills and a desire to learn and work within a team.
  • Problem Solving: An enthusiastic and curious approach to solving technical challenges.

Worker Type:

Employee

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About The Company

Cubic creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation that make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities that help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global challenges through innovation and service to our customers and partners.We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD).CTS is an industry-leading integrator of payment and information solutions and related services for intelligent travel applications.CTS delivers integrated systems for transportation and traffic management, delivering tools for travelers to choose the smartest and easiest way to travel and pay for their journeys, and enabling transportation authorities and agencies to manage demand across the entire transportation network. Cubic Defense provides networked Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) solutions, and live, virtual, constructive and game-based training solutions for both U.S. and Allied Forces. These mission-inspired capabilities enable assured multi-domain access; converged digital intelligence; and superior readiness for defense, intelligence, security and commercial missions.

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