Site Reliability Engineer

Ideal Candidate Traits

Proactive, detail-oriented, and thrives under pressure

Demonstrated technical proficiency and design thinking

Experience in Agile and ITSM environments

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

**Detailed Technical Skills Overview**

**Core Technical Skills (Required)**

- **SQL Querying**

- Basic knowledge of SQL, should able to understand DDL and DML queries

- **Bash & Unix Shell Scripting**

- Familiarity & experience in command-line scripting skills for automating operational tasks, log parsing, and system monitoring.

- Familiarity with cron jobs, file manipulation, and process control in Unix/Linux environments.

- **CI/CD & Automation**

- Hands-on experience with continuous integration and deployment pipelines. (good to have)

- Ability to integrate security checks and access controls into automated workflows.

- **Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)**

- Exposure to SRE principles such as observability, incident response, and service-level objectives (SLOs).

- Experience in maintaining high-availability systems and reducing toil through automation.

- **Platform Knowledge**

- Working knowledge of:

- **Operating Systems**: Windows and UNIX/Linux

- **Networking**: Basic understanding of firewalls, DNS, and VPNs, IP address

- **Web Applications**: Familiarity with authentication flows and session management

**Preferred / Good-to-Have Skills**

- **Python Scripting**

- Ability to write Python scripts for automation, data processing, and integration with APIs.

- Useful for building lightweight tools or enhancing existing IAM workflows.

- **XLR (XebiaLabs Release) or Chef Habitat**

- Familiarity with release orchestration (XLR) or application automation and packaging (Chef Habitat).

- Helps in managing infrastructure as code and deploying secure, consistent environments.

- **Public Key Infrastructure

- Understanding of Digital certificates, x509 standards, private vs public keys

- Experience with certificate renewal and certificate renewal automation