Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Requirements

• Outstanding analytical skills with the ability to solve complex systems challenges and performance bottlenecks
• Proficient knowledge of public cloud infrastructure, networking, architecture, and Linux as well as orchestration, monitoring, automation, and configuration management solutions
• Practical knowledge of distributed service design and performance, including messaging protocols, caching, data residency, and observability
• Passion for designing and evolving complex systems while also being able to support day-to-day infrastructure operations
• A dedication to learning new techniques and technologies, then sharing ideas with your fellow engineers with mastery of breaking down, discussing, and communicating technical concepts

Responsibilities

• Automating observability and alerting across an ever-changing landscape of microservices
• Automated Service Reliability Scorecards and Production Readiness Standards
• Chaos Engineering and Game Day Simulations to discover and test fixes for weak spots that would otherwise not be identified until a real-life production incident occurred
• Software engineering project work, proposed and driven by individual SRE team members, to remove operational bottlenecks and increase velocity in ways we’ve never considered before
• Expand and improve our observability and monitoring footprint
• Collaborate with the Engineering and DevOps to create architectural plans, define project requirements, and establish technical standards
• Improve common operational challenges by building tools and automating scripts
• Serve on the Incident Response Team to help debug and drive resolution of production reliability issues, contribute to the postmortem, and work to prevent recurrence
• Participate in design and production reviews for new features, products, or infrastructure
• Audit and tune the configuration of systems owned by other engineering teams
• Plan for the growth of Velocity Global’s infrastructure and infrastructure reliability/resiliency
• Designing and implementing High Availability architecture underlying Velocity Global’s platform
• Creating Disaster Recovery solutions, including backups, redundant systems, and emergency response processes
• Collaborating with Architects and Engineering leaders in the hiring, training and mentoring of all talents.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience (Depending on open role) Software engineering experience, preferably within the Infrastructure Engineering area.
• 5-8 years of experience in highly scalable cloud architectures including service-oriented architectures (AWS and/or GCP experience preferred)
• Ability to collaborate well and come up with maintainable, reliable solutions. Experience building scalable, high-performing systems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to provide both architectural guidance and detailed technical directions.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and leadership skills