Site Reliability Engineer

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Qualifications:

• 10+ years of overall experience in IT including, with hands-on Development and Systems engineering background
• 3-5 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering role
• Experience with Enterprise Cloud transformation efforts
• Experience with SRE principles and transformation
• 3+ years of experience with implementation of Containerization (Kubernetes), Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure etc.), DevOps tool chain (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab, Artifactory, bitbucket, etc.), and technical patterns (IaC, Automated Provisioning/Release, CI/CD, etc.)
• Solid understanding of Software coding techniques and experience with full spectrum of Software engineering (Build, Integration, Test, Releasing and Deployment) leveraging Python.
• Experience in Developing and/or challenging engineering solutions/practices and collaborating with peers within and outside of immediate team, including customers (Dev, Architects, Engineers)

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Communicates Architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, while highlighting short-term trade-offs vs. long-term commitments and costs
• Engage in and improve the end to end Lifecycle of services, starting from Inception & design, deployment, operations, and refinement
• Support activities, including System design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews
• Systems Scalability and sustainability leveraging automation and strive to improve our systems with changes that improve reliability and velocity
• Be part of our Cloud journey and as a member of our team help lead Software automation and reliability for our platform
• Actively participate and help guide customers on using Cloud-native design and architecture patterns.
• Provide Consultation on Technology infrastructure planning and engineering for assigned systems; Assesses the implications of technology strategies on infrastructure capabilities
• Build strategy to migrate Legacy applications by conversion to multiple Microservices and hosting on AWS Cloud platform.
• Leverage Cloud-native architecture components including Containers, immutable infrastructure, Microservices, Service Mesh etc., to build highly available and Fault tolerant applications.
• Research on the global technology trends and their applicability to FEPOC products in support of our internal development teams and business.
• Promotes and ensures Modern application design, applies engineering best practices in the development and operations life cycle and mitigates vulnerabilities.
• Monitors and manages the Stability, Availability, and Performance of enterprise systems and platforms across IT domains
• (e.g., Systems, Network, Storage, Security) by analyzing systems to identify problems, trends, and opportunities for improvement.
• Maintain and continually improve (patch and upgrade) our Cloud-based infrastructure.
• Makes data-driven recommendations and decisions, and continuously improves the overall efficacy and efficiency of our software delivery capability.
• Mentoring peers as well as engaging with others across teams and socializing solutions.

Requirements: Strong skills are required in each of the following areas:

Development: Experience programming with one or more languages: Python, Java,Groovy, Go, etc.

IAC Tools for Platform Automation: Strong skills and experience in at least one: Ansible, Terraform, etc.

Containers: Docker or other OCI-certified containers

Container Orchestration Platform : Experience with Kubernetes, AWS EKS, Red Hat OpenShift, Platform 9, or VMware Tanzu

CNI Plugins: Calico, Flannel, Weave Net etc.

Service Mesh: Istio, AWS App Mesh, OpenShift Service Mesh etc.

Container Security Tools: Twistlock, Sysdig, Aqua etc.

Platform Monitoring, Observability, & Performance Tools: Nginx, New Relic, AppDynamics, DataDog, Thanos, Jaeger, LogDNA, etc.

DevOps Tools: Git/bitbucket, Jira, Ansible/Puppet, Jenkins/Circleci/Bamboo, Maven/Artifactory/nexus, etc.

Others:

• Understanding of Cloud Native Architecture
• Linux, Shell scripting, and general admin skills
• Network, Security, Plugins, & Storage Skills
• AWS skills: EC2, S3, EBS, EFS, IAM, VPC, Lambda etc.

Nice to have:

• Cloud and DevOps certifications, e.g.