Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Why should you become a Senior Software Engineer - Site Reliability at Axelerant? Does managing and extending massive cloud platforms get your creative mind racing? Do you love building and debugging open-source, LAMP-stack architectures using cutting-edge technologies? Are you ready to ditch the commute and work from wherever is comfortable for you? If yes, then Axelerant is looking for a Senior Engineer like you for a remote opportunity. As a Senior Software Engineer - Site Reliability, you will be implementing automated solutions for multiple customers in various industries. Further, you will employ industry-leading continuous integration, delivery, and deployment patterns while collaboratively working with peers to execute them towards successful solutions. This role is hands-on development and operations and will be committing code to repositories daily. Your Job Responsibilities Responsible for understanding and implementing solutions to meet desired business outcomes and standards sustainably Responsible for design, deployment, and support automation of continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline operations per account and organizational requirements Participate in design, build, and on-call support of various cloud, container, and on-premises platforms through standalone and integration operations Strategize, review, design, and implement safe, secure, scalable, and easily maintained IT infrastructure for the organization and clients Responsible for ensuring that operational and service level agreements are operationally met through SLI and SLO monitoring, analysis, and incident responses Participate in planning team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities plus proactive support thereof Skills, Knowledge and Expertise 4+ years of professional site reliability career experience 1+ years of experience using agile methodologies; Git source code versioning and Pull Requests Experience with a scripting language like Python, Java, JavaScript, C#, Ruby, PHP, or SmashTest Experience with automation platforms tools like TravisCI, CircleCI, Jenkins, or GitLabCI Experience with cloud provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) Experience with container and orchestration technology Kubernetes Experience with Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) and configuration management tool Terraform. Experience with monitoring, APM, and alerting tools like Newrelic, Pingdom, or Pagerduty Experience with twelve-factor development methodology for building software-as-a-service applications Ability to automate tasks using a scripting language Ability to use shell extensively and use regular expressions comfortably Strong communication skills and ability to partner across organizations Good To Have Certifications: Amazon Web Services and/or Kubernetes Administrator Experience with Governance best practices and DEVSECOPS methodologies Familiar with the 3factor application architecture pattern Gets the big picture Experience in managing multiple priorities and competing demands Exposure to cloud providers like Microsoft Azure, or GCP Exposure to with IaC and configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt Knowledge of other container and orchestration technologies like Docker or OpenShift