Site Reliability Engineer

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Site Reliability Engineer keeping user-facing services and production systems reliable for a client's cloud operations team. Automating infrastructure, improving monitoring, and scaling Kubernetes-based deployments.

Responsibilities:

  • Participate in an on-call rotation responding to production availability incidents and support service engineers with customer incidents
  • Use on-call shifts to prevent incidents from recurring
  • Operate infrastructure with Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, and Kubernetes
  • Build monitoring and alerting focused on symptoms rather than outages
  • Document actions and convert findings into repeatable procedures and automation
  • Improve the deployment process
  • Design, build, and maintain core infrastructure scaling to hundreds of thousands of concurrent users
  • Debug production issues across services and stack levels
  • Plan infrastructure growth
  • Code infrastructure automation with Ansible and Terraform
  • Improve Prometheus monitoring and build new metrics
  • Help release managers deploy and fix new application versions
  • Plan and execute migration from AWS virtual machines to cloud-native, container-based Kubernetes deployments on EKS
  • Develop relationships with product groups and define SRE KPIs

Requirements:

  • Think cloud-first across public cloud environments
  • Think security-first
  • Understand systems, edge cases, failure modes, behaviors, and specific implementations
  • Familiarity with Linux and Windows
  • Knowledge of configuration-management systems such as Ansible or Puppet
  • Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Golang, or Node.js
  • Ability to collaborate and communicate asynchronously and document work
  • Go-for-it attitude and willingness to fix broken systems
  • Experience with Nginx, HAProxy, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, or similar technologies