Site Reliability Engineer

Mandatory skills: AWS, Linux & NewRelic

Responsibilities:

• Help drive initiatives for designing, upgrading and scaling our architecture to improve availability, reliability, and performance.
• Engage with engineering teams throughout the SDLC to help develop software for reliability and scale, with a shift-left mentality, ensuring minimal refactoring or changes
• Participate in incident management and drive RCA and problem management
• Build and maintain tools that our developers use to observe their applications
• Write scripts to automate the provisioning, monitoring, logging, and maintenance of systems in a distributed, AWS hosted infrastructure
• Work in an agile development environment, collaborating with Application Development and Architecture teams to implement and evolve solutions for a wide array of challenging projects
• Develop solutions for technology, processes, people, and practices for build and release management, application lifecycle changes, operational service delivery, and support using the technologies mentioned above
• Take an active role in developing the long-range highly-available technical infrastructure and architecture plans for cloud (AWS) infrastructure
• Experiment with new technologies to optimize the reliability and performance of our software and hardware infrastructure
• Experiment with new technologies to provide application health visibility to product stakeholders
• Design and implement proactive monitoring to ensure the health, performance, reliability, and security of our environments
• Plan, test, and monitor automated backups and disaster recovery/failover configurations
• Produce high-quality installation and configuration documentation and processes
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation for all supported technologies and be available in the rare case of an off-hours problem
• Reduce toil in regular infrastructure management tasks

Requirements:

• At least two years of experience working as DevOps and/or Site Reliability Engineer
• At least two years of experience working with AWS
• Experience with deployment toolchains such as Jenkins or Gitlab-CI
• Experience required with anyone logging tools like NewRelic, coralogix, elk or sumologic
• Experience with any one monitoring tool like Prometheus and Grafana or NewRelic, Cloudwatch
• Experience with version control system Git
• Proficient with Unix/Linux terminal or Powershell console
• Proficient in one or more languages such as Python or bash.
• Knowledge of both Linux operating systems
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills and strong interpersonal skills to interact professionally and courteously with end-users and co-workers
• Passion for learning new information and technologies