Site Reliability Engineering

• Client needs a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who knows how to balance going fast and going big with operating safely.
• Our mission is to progress, protect, and provide for the software and systems behind all of ’s public services - Analytics, Campaign, Data Platform, Dynamic Form Services, Advertising Cloud, Primetime, Target to name just a few - with an ever-watchful eye on their availability, latency, performance, and capacity.
• SRE is a mindset of engineering approaches which focuses on building the highly reliable systems and eliminate work through automation.
• We hire people from both systems and software backgrounds. Strong candidates will have experience with both.
• The engineer role within SRE is at the heart of fulfilling SRE’s mission: build highly reliable, scalable & measurable customer experience for the continued growth of client’s infrastructure.
• For this position, exceptional critical thinking, problem solving and in-depth technical skills are necessary.
• A very good balance of process-oriented thinking skills and experience in managing customer expectations is a must.
• Successful candidate must be able to function at a high level in critical situations.

Essential Job Functions:

• Engage with product and engineering team from Day 1 to design, build and maintain the system / software for high availability proactively.
• Write software layers, scripts, deployment frameworks, tracers, monitors, self-healing/auto remediation tools and automate the processes.
• Build and maintain software modules for use and re-use in cloud systems automation.
• Maintain the business continuity by identifying and drive opportunity of making systems highly resilient and human free.
• Even after self-healing and automation done by you – if EXTREME complex issues arise, get involved into troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of issues across the stacks – hardware, software, database, network and so on.
• Participate in shared on-call schedule [follow-the-sun model] managed across SRE & Engineering.

Qualifications:

• Excellent ) and automation skills.
• Experience in working over Databases(PostgreSql etc.)
• Experiences / Worked in systems developed using Java, Python, Shell Scripting.
• Troubleshooting and system engineering exposure in UNIX/RHEL production environments.
• Decent Experience with Linux, Internet Protocols, and Large-Scale Operations.
• Developing, running, and/or consuming cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, OpenStack, Google Cloud Platform.
• Ability to work independently and own problem statements end-to-end.
• Great communication, interpersonal and teamwork skills.

Bonus Skills

• Experience designing for and dealing with a large production environment.
• Experience with Container and Cloud technologies like Docker/Kubernetes.
• Recent large-scale experience with configuration management using tools such as Saltstack, Ansible, Chef or Puppet.

Technical Expertise

• Linux Administration
  • RHCE/RHCA
  • User Management
  • File System & package Management
  • Cloud –
    • AWS at least
    • Azure

Production Experience /Strong Troubleshooting

• DNS
• ISO OSI stack
• Troubleshooting
  • Web based application
  • Performance
  • Network
  • SSH/SSL/SFTP etc.
• Security

Development/Scripting (Good to have)

• Languages (at least one)
  • Python
  • Bash
  • Java
  • JS
• Config Management
  • Ansible
  • Salt

Education

• Graduate (B.Tech) in Computer Science
• 4-10 years of relevant work experience