Staff Engineer - SRE

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201 - 500 employees

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💰 $200M Corporate Round on 2022-02

📋 Description

• The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is responsible for the reliability, scalability, stability and performance of systems and services. • They work with cross-functional teams to design, build and maintain systems and troubleshoot issues when they arise. • They bridge the gap between development and operations teams. • They work closely with business teams to define Service Level Objectives (SLO) and agreements (SLA) of critical systems. • They also monitor and maintain the uptime of these systems in-line with the defined SLO’s and SLA’s. • They deploy and manage monitoring tools to gain insights on system health and performance. • They analyze performance, identify bottlenecks and implement solutions to improve a system’s scalability and latency durations. • They develop scripts, implement tools and automation frameworks to reduce the manual intervention efforts of deployment, monitoring and scaling. • They work with development teams for design and development of observability practices like logging, metrics, tracing, etc. • They aim to diagnose and troubleshoot issues proactively. • They create actionable alerts on monitoring systems to ensure rapid response for potential production incidents. • They forecast resource needs and provision adequately for current and future demand. • They design and execute “chaos experiments” to test system’s failure resiliency. • They own, define and implement the Disaster Recovery (DR) processes for systems. • They also conduct planned and unplanned mock DR drills to test for response preparedness during production incidents. • They ensure that security best practices are followed and implemented during design and operations of systems. • They also own and maintain documentation of processes, playbooks, and systems. • They publish KPI reports and other system health updates on a regular basis to the business.

🎯 Requirements

• Must-have - Bachelor's degree, preferably in CS or a related field, or equivalent experience • Must-have - 12+ years of overall IT experience • Must-have - 7+ year of proven work experience as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer or a similar position. • Must-have - 5+ years of AWS Cloud experience with AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or SysOps or Security etc. • Must-have - AWS experience - 3+ years’ experience with using a broadrange of AWS technologies (e.g. EC2, RDS, ELB, S3, VPC, CloudWatch & Monitoring Tools) to develop and maintain an Amazon AWS based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security. • Must-have - 2+ year of experience in CDN and/or Cache systems like Fastly, Akamai, CloudFront, etc. • Proven Understanding & strong experience with Cloud deployments ( AWS / Docker/ Kubernetes) • Knowledge on provisioning IAC Tools like Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Shell, groovy, python, etc. • Experience with monitoring systems such as CloudWatch, NewRelic, Datadog/Splunk, ELK stack. • Experience managing cloud network resources (AWS Preferred) such as CloudWatch, VPC, URL proxies, private link, DNS, ACLs, firewalls, and C2S access points. • Platform or Application Engineering and Operational Knowledge in any of the CI/CD tooling like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc. • Experience in other tooling Technologies like JIRA, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Fortify, SonarQube, Nexus, Nexus IQ • Experience with configuration automation tools like Puppet/Ansible/Chef/Salt • Strong scripting (e.g. Bash & Python) and automation skills. • Windows and Linux system administration. • Ability to analyze and resolve complex infrastructure resource and application deployment issues • Strong attention to detail. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills. • Strong documentation skills.

🏖️ Benefits

• Day off on the 3rd Friday of every month (one long weekend each month) • Monthly Wellness Reimbursement Program to promote health well-being • Paid paternity and maternity leaves