Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Job Responsibilities Engage in and improve the lifecycle of services from conception to EOL, including system design consulting, and capacity planning. Define and implement standards and best practices related to System Architecture, Service delivery, metrics, and the automation of operational tasks. Support services, product & engineering teams by providing common tooling and frameworks to deliver increased availability and improved incident response. Improve system performance, application delivery and efficiency through automation, process refinement, postmortem reviews, and in-depth configuration analysis. Collaborate closely with engineering professionals within the organization to deliver reliable services. Increase operational efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of services by treating operational challenges as a software engineering problem (reduce toil). Guide junior team members and serve as a champion for Site Reliability Engineering. Actively participate in incident response, including on-call responsibilities. Partner with stakeholders to influence and help drive the best possible technical and business outcomes. Required Qualifications Engineering degree, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience. Experience coding in higher-level languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript, C++, or Java). Knowledge of Cloud based applications & Containerization Technologies. Demonstrated understanding of best practices in metric generation and collection, log aggregation pipelines, time-series databases, and distributed tracing. Working experience with industry standards like Terraform, Ansible. Demonstrable fundamentals in two of the following: Computer Science, Cloud architecture, Security, or Network Design fundamentals. Experience, Education, Certification, License and Training Must have at least five years of hands-on experience working in Engineering or Cloud. Minimum five years experience with public cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure). Minimum three years experience in configuration and maintenance of applications and/or systems infrastructure for large scale customer facing company. Experience with distributed system design and architecture