Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

The ideal candidate will sit near Alpharetta, Boca Raton, or Chicago/ Evanston, IL. This will be a fully remote role, however it is required that this individual come onsite for a final interview.

Our client is seeking a Senior SRE with proven industry experience to join our remote-based Engineering team. Our teams are collaborative and forward thinking; the successful candidate will help shape the operations and support for critical Windows and Linux based applications, customers, and projects, working closely with Development, QA, IT Operations and Customer Operations teams.

You will be required to communicate and solve problems effectively, while handling a fast-paced working environment. This will be combined with a transition to DevOps practices, agile support, and deployment processes.

Main Responsibilities

Delivery of resilient application stacks via "Infrastructure as Code" and other DevOps practices.

Monitoring and on-going support of critical, high revenue business applications.

Diagnosis and resolution of complex system and application issues.

Working with diverse technical and non-technical teams, including Development, QA, IT Operations, Customer Operations and Project Management teams.

Write and maintain systems / application documentation for technical and non-technical audiences.

Essential Skills and Attributes

Configuration Management tools - e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef or equivalents.

Professional experience of working within the public cloud - Azure, AWS or GCP.

Hands-on experience of Linux and Windows server including support and troubleshooting.

System and application monitoring - e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, Cloudwatch, etc.

Familiarity with common source control tools - e.g. Git, SVN

Cloud Architecture and system design to solve key business problems and facilitate team goals.

Strong and enthusiastic technologist, able to demonstrate a broad technical knowledge.

Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Ability to act as a point of expertise, advise others in the team on best practices and impart knowledge.

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Skills and Requirements

3-5+ years of experience with Cloud development, management and support.

Use of orchestration tools such as Terraform, Ansible or CloudFormation

Experience with Azure

Experience with container orchestration platforms-Kubernetes

Experience migrating application from on-premises to public cloud.

Familiarity with Blue-Green deployment methodologies.

Continuous Integration/Delivery such as Gitlab or Jenkins.

Experience working with containerized workloads such as Docker.

Familiarity with Log Management tools e.g. - Elastic Stack, Graylog or Splunk

Experience working with an enterprise RDBMS such as MySQL and/or Microsoft SQL Server.

Knowledge of change control and associated procedures.

Use of Secret Management services e.g. - Hashicorp Vault

Familiarity with any high-level programming language.