For this role, we are looking for a Sr. SRE / DevOps Engineer at Sunnyvale, California location.
As Site Reliability Engineer, the individual will work closely with multi-functional teams, automate operations, optimize infrastructure, implement security and solve issues in an exciting, fast-paced environment. The individual will play a vital role in ensuring that the systems are reliable, scalable, and high performing.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure system reliability and availability – Monitor system issues, create strategies to detect issues, address those issues, design automated systems to troubleshoot, write and review post-mortems.
- Mitigate Operational risks - Collaborate with development teams and other stakeholders to identify potential risks, perform risk assessments, implement risk mitigation strategies, continuously monitor and review the effectiveness of risk strategies.
- Monitor system health.
- Minimize emergency response (MTTR).
- Maintain CI/CD pipelines, etc.
- Continuous improvement by collaborating with various teams.
- Automation of processes.
- Must have/required experience and skills:
- 8+ years of experience on DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering.
- Hands-on with containerization and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes/EKS.
- Proficiency in infrastructure as code tools: Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
- Experience setting up and managing services running on Kubernetes.
- In-depth understanding of SRE principals including monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, and automation.
- In-depth knowledge of monitoring and observability tools: Apache Splunk
- Knowledge of Linux operating system principles, networking fundamentals, and systems management
- Demonstrable fluency in at least one of the following languages: Java or Python
- Ability to identify and communicate technical and architectural problems, while working with partners and their team to iteratively find solutions.
- Building and managing CI/CD pipeline – gatekeeping production deployments, develop and implement GIT branching strategies, branch protection rules, network policies, scale up/ scale down the load on AWS.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Solve performance issues and scalability issues in the system.
Technical Skills:
- DevOps and SRE
- AWS Kubernetes/EKS, Docker
- Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation
- Apache Splunk, Apache Flink
- Programming/Scripting using Java or Python
- CI/CD
- Database – Vertica, Snowflake