Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Primary Responsibilities

• Delivery of Cloud infrastructure strategies

  aligned with business objectives, with a focus on Cloud migrations.
• Provide

  leadership in infrastructure migration methodologies and techniques

  , including mass application movements into the cloud. This involves:
• Design, implementation, and support of

  Infrastructure as Code

  .
• Researching new cloud technologies and prototyping solutions to decrease costs and increase performance.
• Assessing and comparing cloud-native PaaS with cloud-enabled traditional infrastructure.
• Mentoring existing staff on cloud computing best practices and technology to drive cloud adoption.

• Design of cloud infrastructure

  with a focus on Azure using industry best practices.
• Perform

  code reviews

  of team members work.
• Perform

  Quality Assurance (i.e., Testing)

  on other team members development activities.
• Participate in

  agile activities

  (daily standups, backlog refinement, iteration planning, retrospectives, etc.).
• Contribute to the team's backlog by creating stories and defects as they arise.
• Take

  ownership of assigned tasks

  .
• Participate in

  on-call rotation

  (approximately once every 6 weeks).

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Education:

  4-year degree in Computer Science.

• Software Development:

  5 years of software development experience building enterprise applications, solution design, and technical architecture experience.

• Azure Cloud:

  3 years experience in Azure-based cloud computing services architecture.

• Programming:

  2 years of programming experience (Java, C#, etc.).

• Cloud & Infrastructure:

  Strong understanding across cloud and infrastructure components (server, storage, data, and applications) to deliver end-to-end cloud infrastructure architectures and designs.

• Automation:

  Experience automating infrastructure in a cloud environment using

  Terraform and Ansible

  .

• Operating Systems:

  Experience with Windows and Linux-based operating system configuration, automation, and management.

• Scripting:

  Shell scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash, etc.).

• Patch Management:

  Proficiency with patch orchestration or vulnerability remediation.

• Communication:

  Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Problem-Solving:

  Excellent technical analysis and problem-solving skills.

• Learning Agility:

  Ability to learn new technologies quickly and efficiently.

Preferred Knowledge and Experience

• Container Technologies:

  Such as Docker.

• Build Automation Tools:

  Such as Packer.

• CI/CD:

  Building continuous integration and delivery pipelines with tools like Jenkins or Team City.

• Outage-less Systems:

  Designing outage-less systems using practices such as Blue/Green or Rolling Deployments.

• Managed Kubernetes:

  Experience in a managed Kubernetes implementation (KubeSpray, EKS, KOPS).

• Monitoring & Analytics:

  Experience with monitoring and analytical tools (Splunk, New Relic).

• Certificate Management:

  (client certificates, server certificates, certificate authorities, etc.).

• Disaster Recovery:

  Familiarity with cloud-based disaster recovery and HA system development.

• Infrastructure Experience:

  (firewalls, load balancer, AD, DNS, etc.).

• Networking Experience

  .

• Agile Exposure

  .
• Capable of building informative and visually appealing

  Grafana Dashboards

  .
• Proficient in using

  GitHub

  for version control, collaboration, and project management and

  GitHub Actions

  for CI/CD.