Site Reliability Engineer - Entry

What you will do:

• Operations experience in supporting highly scalable systems
• Ability to operate in a 24x7 environment encompassing global time zones
• Experience designing and implementing an effective and efficient CI/CD flow that gets code from dev to prod with high quality and minimal manual effort is desired
• Kubernetes: Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters in production, optimizing for performance and reliability
• Cloud Infrastructure: Build and maintain scalable infrastructure on GCP (or other cloud providers), leveraging automation tools like Terraform
• Performance Engineering:
• Identify and analyze performance bottlenecks in applications and infrastructure
• Develop and implement performance optimizations.
• Observability: Implement comprehensive monitoring and logging solutions to proactively detect and resolve issues
• Incident Response: Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshooting and resolving production incidents with a focus on minimizing downtime.
• Collaboration: Work closely with product development teams to promote reliability best practices and ensure smooth deployments.
• Manage system(s) uptime across cloud-native (AWS, GCP) and hybrid architectures
• Build infrastructure as code (IAC) patterns that meet security and engineering standards using one or more technologies (Terraform, scripting with cloud CLI, and programming with cloud SDK)
• Build CI/CD pipelines for build, test and deployment of application and cloud architecture patterns, using platform (Jenkins) and cloud-native toolchains
• Build automated tooling to deploy service request to push a change into production
• Solve problems and triage complex distributed architecture service map.
• Build runbooks that are comprehensive and detailed to manage detect, remediate and restore services
• On call for high severity application incidents and improving run books to improve MTTR
• Participate in a team of first responders 24/7, follow the sun operating model for incident and problem management
• Effectively communicate to technical peers and team members in both written and verbal formats.
  

What Experience You Need

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent job experience required
• 1+ years of experience working with containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
• 1+ years of experience working with public cloud environments ( GCP preferred)
• Strong system administration skills, including automation and orchestration on Linux
• Strong Kubernetes knowledge and hands-on production administration skills.
• Programming experience in one or more languages such as Python, Bash, Java, Go, Groovy or similar languages
• Proficient in Identifying and analyzing performance bottlenecks in applications and infrastructure
• Proficiency with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) using tools like Jenkins, Git
• 1+ years of experience monitoring infrastructure and application performance
• Solid understanding of application design principles and trade-offs
• Knowledge of network infrastructure and security basics (DNS, subnets, firewalls, load balancers)
  

What Could Set You Apart

• Experience with GCP/GKE, Composer
• Certifications in Kubernetes (CKA, CKAD) or cloud certification
• You have expertise designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• You take a system problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
• You have experience managing Infrastructure as code via tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• You are passionate for automation with a desire to eliminate toil whenever possible
• You’ve built software or maintained systems in a highly secure, regulated or compliant industry
• You thrive in and have experience and passion for working within a DevOps culture and as part of a team