Site Reliability Engineer - Environment Automation

February 11

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GitLab is a complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate and build software. From idea to production, GitLab helps teams improve cycle time from weeks to minutes, reduce development costs and time to market while increasing developer productivity.

1001 - 5000 employees

💰 Secondary Market on 2020-11

📋 Description

• As a Site Reliability Engineer at GitLab, you are responsible for keeping all user-facing services and other GitLab production systems running smoothly. • SREs are a blend of pragmatic operators and software craftspeople that apply sound engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to our operating environments and the GitLab codebase. • You primarily focus on operating a large number of GitLab environments, through automating all workflows - from provisioning new environments to daily operating tasks. • Examples of the projects you could work on include: The automation used to operate a large number of GitLab environments, creating deployment packages of GitLab, building Dedicated Gitlab setups using infrastructure as code automation with Ansible and Terraform, building tools to orchestrate infrastructure as code workloads, deploying and operating microservices on top of Kubernetes, working on the GitLab observability stack, interacting with various cloud provider systems, and developing sound cloud security practices. • Your responsibilities include: Automate every operational task, develop a good early warning system, develop monitoring and alerting systems, respond to user emergencies, implement new security measures, and collaborate with other engineering stakeholders.

🎯 Requirements

• Have experience in running and operating production workloads. • Have strong programming skills - preferably with Ruby and/or Go. • Have a strong background with Infrastructure as a Code technologies, and libraries powering GitLab, such as: Terraform, Ansible. Experience with data templating tools such as Jsonnet would be considered a bonus. • Are able to reason about large systems - how they work and can be operated on a large scale, edge cases, failure modes, behaviors. • Enjoy working with peers and collaborating across teams to deliver unique solutions to various technical challenges. • Are able to leverage GitLab as your day-to-day go-to tool. • Have experience regularly interacting with customers, and a focus on resolving their requests with a sense of urgency.