Site Reliability Engineer (shift work hours)

Job Responsibilities

The team covers a variety of responsibilities that are executed by DevSecOps, Site Reliability and ML Ops Engineers, including:

•          Defining standard reliability and resilience for infrastructure and application components.
•          Proactive optimization of redundancies, monitoring and alerting practices and patterns
•          Developing resilient and highly available distributed systems.
•          Infrastructure as Code development for building cloud tools.
•          Secrets and configuration management
•          Monitoring systems and services, providing incident and emergency response to triage and resolve system or client issues
•          Management of the application ecosystem improving platform infrastructure and applications with high reliability, resiliency, performance, and quality
•          Supporting documentation, knowledge articles, and runbooks
•          Designing, building, and Implementing SRE patterns that adhere to our client’s security guidelines and policies.

Minimum Qualifications

•          Work hours till 9-10pm Ukrainian time is required
•          At least 4 years of relevant working experience.
•          Advanced Kubernetes – Must have strong skills in Kubernetes at scale using one of GKE, AKS, EKS or RKE. Experience with Kubectl and Helm.
•          Containers: Experience deploying Java (Spring Boot) microservices in dockerized environments.
•          Observability – Experience in setting up tools like Prom/Grafana, Datadog, AppDynamics, Splunk. to give actionable intel on a microservice environment including but not limited to synthetics, Application performance monitoring, logging and Alerting (Pagerduty/OpsGenie Integrations).
•          Good CI/CD expertise. Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Github Actions, ArgoCD, Artifactory, Azure container registry, Google container registry and other similar tooling.
•          SCM - Working with tools like Github/Gitlab for source code management and well as experience with branching strategies like GitFlow and trunk based.
•          Strong troubleshooting skills – Be able to move all the way down to code level to give development teams a head start on application issues. Effectively be able to contribute to root cause analysis exercises post problem resolution.
•          Good Communication Skills - Active listening, verbal and non-verbal communication, Clarity and Concision, Confidence, Open-Mindedness, Respect.
•          Good Documentation skills - Be able to effectively document any automation, technical efforts so as to ensure ease of adoptability of a solution.
•          Good collaboration skills – Must be able to work effectively with Scrum/Dev teams with a push/pull (push back and prioritize work pulled in) philosophy to manage expectations and contribute to the stability and improvement of the platform.

Nice to Have Qualifications

•          IAC - Terraform , Pulumi. Preferably developed modules in the past rather than just using them.
•          Security – worked with encryption at rest, in transit patterns. Experience with tools like Azure Key vault, Hashicorp Vault, Google KMS.
•          Security – Experience with tools like Veracode, Blackduck for AppSec testing, Qualys scanners for infra testing and Twistlock/Aqua for container scanning.
•          Automation – Must be able to identify toil and opportunities to reduce that within the team.
•          Authentication/Authorization – Familiarity with Authn/Authz schemes like OpenID, OAuth 2.0, SAML.
•          Scripting and Programming – Experience with Python, Powershell, Go, Java, Node.
•          Event Driven/Event Sourcing Patterns – Familiarity with distributed event streaming platforms like Kafka, EventHub, RabbitMQ and patterns like CQRS.