SRE Engineer

SRE Engineer

Location: Atlanta, GA and Minneapolis, MN (Prefer MN)

SRE 10+ and 15+ years experienced profiles :

Site Reliability Engineer ( 2 onsite positions ), it would be great if you could share few profiles with 10 years of exp.

Sub skill:

Absolutely Required Skills: 1. DevOps with Java + MicroProfile and , AWS Codepipeline, AWS Cloud formation , CDK programming skills.

The Staff Site Reliability Engineer will drive cross-team initiatives that improves Delta engineering practices through increased accountability and deliver increased uptime and performance for the business. An ideal candidate would have prior experience implementing observability plans around logs, metrics, and traces.
What you ll be doing?
Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services from inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement
Support capacity planning, availability, scalability, security and latency considerations for new infrastructure and service provisioning as appropriate
Responsible for improvements to end-to-end availability and performance of mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence.
Partner with business and technical product owners to set SLOs / SLIs / error budgets to manage reliability of infrastructure and applications
Partner with other SREs to bring best practices or learnings from across the organization to them
Scale and optimize existing infrastructure and services sustainably through mechanisms, including automation, and evolve them by improving reliability and efficiency
Manage end-to-end availability and performance of mission-critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence
Maintain infrastructure (infrastructure as code) and services by measuring, and monitoring system metrics to proactively identify operational efficiencies, potential outages and security threats in Development, UAT, Staging and Production environments
Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
Build infrastructure and drive projects that break things with the aim to improve the robustness of production systems
Use the core Site Reliability Engineering principles of change management, monitoring, emergency response, capacity planning, and production readiness reviews to run the platform
Step back to observe patterns and develop innovative tools and automation to eliminate or minimize menial tasks. Use those learnings to drive the best operational practices
Develop and maintain solution and operational documentation and designs for all infrastructure and services within the scope of SRE
Preserve operational visibility and response capabilities fixing and improving our dashboards, alerts, and automation
Maintain operational uptime and reliability by participating in triage and issue support calls for mission critical systems
Who are you?
Strong experience setting SLOs / SLIs / error budgets and managing of reliability for infrastructure and applications using Kubernetes, AWS Native components, CloudWatch, Dynatrace
Proficient in one or more of the following scripting languages: JavaScript, Nodejs, Python, Maven, Ansible, Bash, etc.
Experience handling large numbers of diverse systems with configuration management systems like Puppet, Chef, Ansible
Proven history of toil elimination by leveraging automation
Strong background using tools like PagerDuty for managing incidents
Strong experience with monitoring and alerting systems like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog.
Understanding of standard networking protocols and components such as HTTP, DNS, ECMP, TCP/IP, ICMP, the OSI Model, Subnetting and Load Balancing strategies
Experience in Serverless Application Framework
Experience in containerized workloads and management platforms such as Docker or Kubernetes
Familiarity with distributed systems is a plus including Microservices
Experience in Infrastructure automation tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform
Understanding of CI/CD processes and experience with deployment automation tools such as Code Pipeline, Code Deploy, Jenkins, Bamboo
Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
Effective communication, collaboration & negotiation skills with the ability to interface with various business units and third parties
Experience liaising with developers, operations staff and third-party resources
Experience with API integration projects
Senior
o Software Engineering, Computer Science equivalent, or STEM degree (Desirable) or commensurate experience
10+ years of total software engineering experience using Kubernetes, AWS Native components, CloudWatch, Dynatrace
5+ years of support a production system on a DevOps team
2+ years of experience Architecting using AWS Cloud