Site Reliability Engineer

We are growing and our Operations Department is looking for support to join our international team!

Responsibilities

• Daily interactions ensuring the health and maintenance of systems in different geographical locations: hardware, software, application and network are operating at peak performance
• Perform deep dives into both systemic and latent reliability issues; partner with software and systems engineers across the organization to produce and roll out fixes
• Troubleshoot issues across the entire stack: hardware, software, application and network
• Drive standardization efforts across multiple disciplines and services in conjunction with SREs throughout the organization
• Identify and drive opportunities to improve automation for the company; scope and create automation for deployment, management and visibility of our services
• Represent the SRE organization in design reviews and operational readiness exercises for new and existing services
• Work with software engineers to improve upon deployment processes
• Participate in the on-call rotation for production systems

Requirements

• Sound fundamentals in operating systems, networking, and distributed systems
• Strong familiarity with Linux systems administration and management best practices
• Familiarity with container technologies: Kubernetes, CRI, Docker, namespaces, cgroups
• Strong understanding of: Ethernet, VLANs, IPv4/IPv6, ARP, DHCP, DNS, and TCP
• Familiarity with distributed system problems: leader election, Raft consensus, etc.
• Solid understanding of systems and application design, including the operational trade-offs of various designs
• Expert level understanding with at least one public or private cloud technology such as Amazon AWS, Google GKE, or OpenStack
• Practical knowledge of various aspects of service design, including messaging protocols and behavior, caching strategies and software design practices
• Practical intermediate knowledge of shell scripting, some Ruby is a plus
• Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, web application security, and experience supporting multi-tier web application architectures
• Excellent knowledge of Linux/UNIX systems administration and performance tuning
• Comfortable configuring DNS, DHCP, and LAN/WAN technologies
• Minimum 5 years of managing services in an internet scale *nix environment
• Must be able to communicate well with technical as well as non-technical colleagues to achieve business goals
• Must be adaptable and able to focus on the simplest, most efficient and reliable solutions
• Track record of successful practical problem solving, excellent written and interpersonal communication in English, and documentation skills
• Curiosity and an interest in networking, systems software, and distributed systems
• Experience as a systems administrator or operations engineer
• Experience with a 24/7 production environment
• Experience with managed deployments providing software, platforms, or infrastructure as a service
• Experience with Mellanox and Vyatta based networking gear is a plus
• Experience with SuperMicro server and storage gear is a plus