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Site Reliability Engineer – DevOps – Infrastructure Automation

October 28, 2019 by

Site Reliability Engineer – DevOps – Infrastructure 

One of our top Clients int he Human Capital Management space is  looking for a SRE Infrastructure automation candidate to join their team.
Our  Client offers the vibe of a startup with the resources of a large company, and you’ll have plenty of opportunities to help drive and validate product strategy. 

The Technology Stack

  • Architecture – API-driven, distributed, service-oriented architecture
  • Frontend : React/Redux, Swagger + Backbone/Handlebars/jQuery
  • Backend: Java 8, Spring Boot, Solr, Kafka, Zuul
  • Build: Jenkins, Docker, Artifactory, Gradle
  • Infrastructure: AWS, Consul, Nomad, TerraForm, Vault, Salt, MySQL/RDS
  • Quality Assurance: Mabl, Locust/BlazeMeter, python-based API test automation

Things you’ll do

  • Work with product engineering teams as well as architects and application platform team and help them build services that scale and perform in a distributed microservice architecture.
  • Create metrics which feed into our observability systems and dashboards to give insights for the developers and operations teams.
  • Develop internal tools and help solve problems up and down the stack.
  • Define alerting thresholds, assist in troubleshooting of application issues and help lead post mortems.
  • Build out infrastructure to support these apps by using terraform to spin up aws environments, or creating docker containers to deploy into our schedulers.
  • Try to break stuff! Our apps must be battle tested and able to withstand different failure scenarios. Load/stress testing, chaos engineering type experiments, anything to make sure our customers never deal with downtime or failure. We thrive at 99.99% availability.
  • Participate in oncall alongside developers and be available to work with our client/customer support teams if necessary.

What we’re looking for

  • Designed, deployed, and managed large cloud infrastructures such as AWS, GCE, Azure, etc.
  • Solid understanding of managing cloud native application systems.
  • Excellent oral and written communication. Ability to convey ideas internally to co-workers as well as externally through meetups and talks.
  • Ability to understand distributed software architectures and troubleshoot them from infrastructure through application layers.
  • Experience with containers and how they work internally. Deployment into a production environment using a scheduler like Nomad / Kubernetes / Mesos / ECS a plus.
  • Implemented a service discovery system using tools like Consul/Smartstack/EtcD for dynamic environments.
  • Ability to write code/scripts using languages such as Python, Go, Ruby.
  • Passion for technology and desire to push our tech stack forward.
  • Be a team player and work closely with developers and operations.
  • Experience with Monitoring, Instrumentation and performance engineering. 

Nice to have

  • Experience in a “continuous delivery/deployment” environment and supporting tools.
  • Worked with API/SPA architectures
  • Knowledge of service mesh technologies like Envoy/LinkerD
  • Experience with Java and JVM in a production environment.
  • Ability to configure and customize monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, Graphite, etc) 
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