SRE / DevOps Engineer

Title: Sr. SRE / DevOps Engineer

Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Job Description:

Job Summary

For this role, we are looking for a Sr. SRE / DevOps Engineer at Sunnyvale, California location.

As Site Reliability Engineer, the individual will work closely with multi-functional teams, automate operations, optimize infrastructure, implement security and solve issues in an exciting, fast-paced environment. The individual will play a vital role in ensuring that the systems are reliable, scalable, and high performing.

Responsibilities

Ensure system reliability and availability Monitor system issues, create strategies to detect issues, address those issues, design automated systems to troubleshoot, write and review post-mortems.

Mitigate Operational risks - Collaborate with development teams and other stakeholders to identify potential risks, perform risk assessments, implement risk mitigation strategies, continuously monitor and review the effectiveness of risk strategies.

Monitor system health.

Minimize emergency response (MTTR).

Maintain CI/CD pipelines, etc.

Continuous improvement by collaborating with various teams.

Automation of processes.

Must have/required experience and skills:

8+ years of experience on DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering.

Hands-on with containerization and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes/EKS.

Proficiency in infrastructure as code tools: Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.

Experience setting up and managing services running on Kubernetes.

In-depth understanding of SRE principals including monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, and automation.

In-depth knowledge of monitoring and observability tools: Apache Splunk

Knowledge of Linux operating system principles, networking fundamentals, and systems management

Demonstrable fluency in at least one of the following languages: Java or Python

Ability to identify and communicate technical and architectural problems, while working with partners and their team to iteratively find solutions.

Building and managing CI/CD pipeline gatekeeping production deployments, develop and implement GIT branching strategies, branch protection rules, network policies, scale up/ scale down the load on AWS.

Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Solve performance issues and scalability issues in the system.

Technical Skills:

DevOps and SRE

AWS Kubernetes/EKS, Docker

Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation

Apache Splunk, Apache Flink

Programming/Scripting using Java or Python

CI/CD

Database Vertica, Snowflake.

Behavioral Skills:

Excellent Communication skills and collaboration skills

Ability to propose and implement improvements in the system

Ability to work with cross-functional stakeholders

Adaptability and a willingness to learn new technologies and techniques.

Proactive approach to issues, ability to provide prompt resolution/work around.