Senior Site Reliability Engineer

What you bring in:

• Extensive knowledge of system administration on Linux environments, preferably working on high throughput and low latency systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with GCP services (or transferable AWS/Azure skills) — networking, IAM, compute, storage, Kubernetes (GKE/EKS/AKS).
• Extensive knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
• Excellent understanding of distributed system design across process and site boundaries.
• Hands-on experience with service orchestration, management, deployment activities, configuration management and all necessary automation.
• Strong grasp of process isolation and containerization concepts, being able to apply them when necessary.
• Container orchestration: Deep understanding of Kubernetes — deploying, scaling, monitoring clusters.
• Monitoring & Observability: Experience with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Stackdriver, Datadog, New Relic, etc.
• Incident management: Practical experience responding to incidents, performing root cause analysis, and improving system reliability.
• Security best practices: Knowledge of cloud security, secrets management, and compliance basics.
• Good understanding of software development lifecycle, versioning, building, testing, staging and deployment processes with a strong continuous delivery mindset.

The impact you will create:  

• Building tooling to ease the provisioning and scaling of infrastructure resources.
• Continuously improve and scale infrastructure components to handle growth.
• Improve overall systems performance and investigate failures taking part actively in future improvements discussion.
• Ensure systems availability, reachability, and maintainability building the necessary instrumentation, tooling, and alarming systems in order to escalate abnormalities.
• Being influential in monitoring and capacity planning together with the application development teams and in alignment with the business goals.

It would be great if you also have:

• Experience developing kubernetes operators.
• Experience deploying and scaling apache cassandra, scylladb, mysql, postgresql, redis or memcached.
• Go programming language experience or willingness to learn coding in Go(it'll help us build new k8s operators and improve the existing ones).