Devops Engineer

Site Reliability EngineerMinneapolis, MN or Atlanta, GA (onsite)JD DevOps with Java + MicroProfile and, AWS Codepipeline, AWS Cloud formation, CDK programming skills.The Staff Site Reliability Engineer will drive cross-team initiatives that improves Delta engineering practices through increased accountability and deliver increased uptime and performance for the business. An ideal candidate would have prior experience implementing observability plans around logs, metrics, and traces.Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinementSupport capacity planning, availability, scalability, security and latency considerations for new infrastructure and service provisioning as appropriateResponsible for improvements to end-to-end availability and performance of mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence.Partner with business and technical product owners to set SLOs / SLIs / error budgets to manage reliability of infrastructure and applicationsPartner with other SREs to bring best practices or learnings from across the organization to themScale and optimize existing infrastructure and services sustainably through mechanisms, including automation, and evolve them by improving reliability and efficiencyManage end-to-end availability and performance of mission-critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrenceMaintain infrastructure (infrastructure as code) and services by measuring, and monitoring system metrics to proactively identify operational efficiencies, potential outages and security threats in Development, UAT, Staging and Production environmentsPractice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortemsBuild infrastructure and drive projects that break things with the aim to improve the robustness of production systemsUse the core Site Reliability Engineering principles of change management, monitoring, emergency response, capacity planning, and production readiness reviews to run the platformStep back to observe patterns and develop innovative tools and automation to eliminate or minimize menial tasks. Use those learnings to drive the best operational practicesDevelop and maintain solution and operational documentation and designs for all infrastructure and services within the scope of SREPreserve operational visibility and response capabilities — fixing and improving our dashboards, alerts, and automationMaintain operational uptime and reliability by participating in triage and issue support calls for mission critical systemsWho are you?Strong experience setting SLOs / SLIs / error budgets and managing of reliability for infrastructure and applications using Kubernetes, AWS Native components, CloudWatch, DynatraceProficient in one or more of the following scripting languages: JavaScript, Nodejs, Python, Maven, Ansible, Bash, etc.Experience handling large numbers of diverse systems with configuration management systems like Puppet, Chef, AnsibleProven history of toil elimination by leveraging automationStrong background using tools like PagerDuty for managing incidentsStrong experience with monitoring and alerting systems like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog.Understanding of standard networking protocols and components such as DNS, ECMP, TCP/IP, ICMP, the OSI Model, Subnetting and Load Balancing strategiesExperience in Serverless Application FrameworkExperience in containerized workloads and management platforms such as Docker or KubernetesFamiliarity with distributed systems is a plus including MicroservicesExperience in Infrastructure automation tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform Understanding of CI/CD processes and experience with deployment automation tools such as Code Pipeline, Code Deploy, Jenkins, BambooStrong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skillsEffective communication, collaboration & negotiation skills with the ability to interface with various business units and third partiesExperience liaising with developers, operations staff and third-party resourcesExperience with API integration projects(Desirable) or commensurate experience10+ years of total software engineering experience using Kubernetes, AWS Native components, CloudWatch, Dynatrace5+ years of support a production system on a DevOps team2+ years of experience Architecting using AWS Cloud