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
• 5+ 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