Expert Site Reliability Engineer

Objectives of this Role 

• Work in tandem with our engineering team to identify and implement the most optimal cloud-based solutions for the company. 

• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance. 

• Provide guidance, thought leadership, and mentorship to development teams to build cloud competencies. 

• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design. 

• Managing cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines. 

• Stay current with industry trends, making recommendations as needed to help the organization innovate and excel. 

Responsibilities 

•  Develop, deploy and maintain infrastructure on Azure using Docker and Kubernetes. 

• Implement automation tools and frameworks (CI/CD pipelines). 

• Collaborate with team members to improve the company’s engineering tools, systems and procedures, and data security. 

• Optimize the company’s computing architecture. 

• Conduct systems tests for security, performance, and availability. 

• Develop and maintain design and troubleshooting documentation. 

• Collaborate with the engineering teams to enable their applications to run on Cloud infrastructure. 

• Debugging technical issues inside a complex stack involving virtualization, containers, microservices, etc. 

• Troubleshoot incidents, identify root cause, fix and document problems, and implement preventive measures. 

• Employ exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to see and solve issues before they snowball into problems. 

Requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or mathematics 

• 8+ years of proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar role in software development and system administration. 

• Experience in Docker for containerization and application deployment. 

• Experience with Kubernetes and Helm for orchestration of Docker containers. 

• Experience with Azure cloud services and understanding of their offerings and architecture. 

• Knowledge of databases and operating systems. 

• Ability to troubleshoot complex software and hardware issues. 

• Knowledge of best practices related to data encryption and cybersecurity. 

• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills. 

• Experience in network, server, and application-status monitoring. 

• Operating systems – any Linux/Unix flavor 

• Monitoring – Prometheus, Grafana