Sr Site Reliability Engineer
| Company | Early Warning |
|---|---|
| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA, Chicago, IL, USA, Scottsdale, AZ, USA, New York, NY, USA |
| Salary | $140000 – $180000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Education and experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor’s Degree in Business and/or Computer Science or related field.
- 3+ years of related experience managing large complex projects in a technical or software development environment inclusive of post-graduate degree
- Demonstrated experience in effective Incident and Problem Management
- Proven related work experience in a medium to large scale enterprise.
- Strong understanding of scripting languages
- Hands on experience implementing and using modern Observability solutions.
- Linux systems administration
- Good knowledge of Git
- Experienced with security and encryption protocols.
- Comfortable with facilitating collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders.
- Excellent oral and written communication and people skills.
- High level of customer responsiveness, excellent documentation and communication skills and attention to detail.
- Background and drug screen.
Responsibilities
- Implement software and tools to improve the performance – availability, scalability, and latency, while delivering end products to customer with the highest efficiency and meeting all security standards.
- Build automation and tooling around application management, such as deployments, configuration changes and disaster recovery scenarios.
- Implement and evangelize Observability and monitoring systems to proactively detect problems and identify cause.
- Evaluate capacity of the application on a continuous basis to provide stats to the Product/Business teams and recommend an efficient path to scale for future needs.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and work with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
- Implement standards across multiple disciplines, systems and practices to improve the overall application delivery.
- Work directly with application development teams to provide feedback and technical requirements to the software development lifecycle, implementing best-practice microservice design patterns and other modern software development approaches.
- Serve as a technical liaison for the application and provide documents and runbooks to Level 1 and Level 2 teams.
- Participate in 24 X 7 on-call rotation.
- Be a champion of excellent processes; take the initiative in developing repeatable patterns and standard, re-usable work across teams.
- Support the company’s commitment to protect the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.
Preferred Qualifications
- Good programming skills in one or more of the following languages: Java, ruby, python, JavaScript and GO
- Hands-on experience in supporting applications in a 24X7 customer-facing production environment.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD workflows
- Strong understanding and hands-on experience on TCP/UDP/IP protocols
- Working knowledge of AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Swarm