DevOps Engineering Generalist Co-op

📋 Job Overview

SRA’s mission is to level up every day to protect our clients and their customers. This begins with our team members and their experience. SRA prides itself on maintaining a culture where team members have a shared sense of support and belonging, consistent with our It’s Personal company value. At SRA, we prioritize transparent career pathing, varied DEI programming and community groups, competitive benefits including mental health support, and an emphasis on a sustainable, healthy, and engaging work culture. SRA has twice been named a Best Place to Work by the Philadelphia Business Journal.

🏢 About Security Risk Advisors

We’re looking for a curious, self-driven engineer with a collaborative mindset and strong problem-solving skills. This role is ideal for someone who’s worked on real-world projects, enjoys automating solutions, and has touched a wide spectrum of technologies—from scripting and compiled languages to cloud deployments and basic infrastructure-as-code.

🎯 The Role

If you're passionate about building things, learning through doing, and improving systems, you'll fit right in.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Git experience, including basic workflows (branching, merging, pull requests).
• Collaborative project experience: Has built at least one personal project with another person using a shared codebase (Git collaboration).
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills: Demonstrated ability to break down and resolve technical issues independently.
• Has written code in each of the following categories (depth in one is fine, but must have at least touched the others): JavaScript or TypeScript, Python, A declarative language or tool (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Dockerfiles, NixOS config, CloudFormation), A compiled language (e.g., Java, C, C++, C#).
• Has deployed or stood up a website of any kind (personal blog, static site, web app, etc.).
• Has used at least one cloud provider (e.g., AWS, Azure, GitHub Pages, Cloudflare, Oracle Cloud).
• Comfortable in a Linux shell environment
• Has automated a task with a script (Bash, Python, PowerShell, etc.).

📌 Required Qualifications

• You're comfortable moving across unfamiliar stacks and learning through doing.
• You’re not afraid to dig into a system, troubleshoot from first principles, and find the root cause.
• You collaborate effectively with others and value shipping working code.
• You have a growth mindset and a hacker's curiosity

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Residence in Eastern time zone preferred
• More experience with TypeScript
• Has played Factorio or Satisfactory (or similar games that require systems thinking and optimization)
• Enjoys reading tech/process books (e.g., The Goal, The DevOps Handbook)
• Azure experience specifically
• Can explain JavaScript’s prototypical inheritance
• Plays strategic board games (e.g., Chess, Go, Risk, Axis & Allies)
• Enjoys using or writing in Markdown
• Interest in diagram/code-based visual tools (e.g., PlantUML, Graphviz, Matplotlib, R)
• Familiarity with functional programming concepts
• Docker experience
• Background or coursework in statistics or probability
• Has a home lab or tinkers with tech at home

🎁 Benefits

Work with Experts: Robust internal training program, plus Company-paid external training. SRA recognizes the value of professional development.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Candidates with disabilities are encouraged to apply and email [email protected] with any questions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable disabled individuals to perform the essential functions of this role.