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. 

These Essential Functions, Requirements, and Skills are guidelines. If you are a candidate who does not meet this exact job description but can demonstrate excellent organization, attention to detail, professionalism, flexibility, and self-direction in your professional background, we hope you apply. SRA values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages people of all backgrounds to apply.  

Summary/Objective  

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. 

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

Requirements

Essential Functions  

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

• 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.). 

What Success Looks Like 

• 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 

Supervisory Responsibility  

N/A 

Work Environment  

This job operates in a professional office environment, and all co-ops are expected to work in the office every day. This role routinely uses standard office equipment.  

Physical Demands  

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. This is a largely sedentary role.  

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.  

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work  

This is a full-time position and hours of work and days are Monday through Friday 8:30am to 5pm. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.  

Travel  

Willingness to travel 

Required Education and Experience  

• Punctuality and timely attendance to external client and internal stakeholder needs. 

Preferred Qualifications and 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 

Other Duties  

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.  

EEO Statement  

Security Risk Advisors is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination or harassment of any kind. All employment decisions at SRA are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, disability, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, or any similar category protected under federal, state, or local laws.    

Benefits

Work with Experts: Robust internal training program, plus Company-paid external training. SRA recognizes the value of professional development for employees. Therefore, we encourage our employees to pursue continuing education and role-specific training.

Corps Training Program: Our SRA Corps training program is a six-week experience for new hires that begins with one week of orientation at our Philadelphia headquarters. Whether new hires are interns, co-ops or full-time consultants, SRA Corps members meet our founders, learn our values, and experience a day in the life of a cybersecurity consultant. Following orientation, Corps members return to their home office and participate in trainings such as Consulting 101, Enterprise Networks, Cloud Security, and more. Our leaders provide hands-on offensive, defensive, and frameworks bootcamps.

Mental Health Services: SRA has partnered with BetterHelp to provide SRA employees with free mental health support. BetterHelp connects individuals with licensed therapists for chat, video, and phone sessions.

Hourly Pay Rate: $30.00