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LeadSiteReliabilityEngineer
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“Lead Site Reliability Engineer. Skills: Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Platform, Distributed Systems, Kubernetes. Co-develop cloud platform services. Participate in full lifecycle development”
What You'll Achieve.
Increase effectiveness, reliability, availability, performance of cloud platform technologies; Achieve large scale provisioning and deployment; Prevent production outages
Industry & Context.
Identifying performance bottlenecks; Identifying anomalous system behavior; Determining the root cause of incidents; Root cause analysis
Participate in on-call rotation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10+ years of relevant experience in running distributed systems at scale in production, Expertise in one of the programming languages: Java, Python or Go, Proficient in writing bash scripts, Good understanding of SQL and NoSQL systems, Good understanding of systems programming (network stack, file system, OS services), Excellent knowledge in Kubernetes, Understanding of network elements such as firewalls, load balancers, DNS, NAT, TLS/SSL, VLANs etc, Skilled in identifying performance bottlenecks, identifying anomalous system behavior, and determining the root cause of incidents, Knowledge of JVM concepts like garbage collection, heap, stack, profiling, class loading, etc., Knowledge of best practices related to security, performance, high-availability, and disaster recovery, Demonstrate a proven record of handling production issues, planning escalation procedures, conducting post-mortems, impact analysis, risk assessments and other related procedures, Able to drive results and set priorities independently, Hands-on knowledge of creating effective monitoring, observability dashboards, creating alerts to prevents production outages
Nice to Have
Experience with managing large scale deployments of search engines like Elasticsearch, Experience with managing large scale deployments of message-oriented middleware such as Kafka, Experience with managing large scale deployments of RDBMS systems such as oracle, Experience with managing large scale deployments of NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, Experience with managing large scale deployments of In-memory caching using Redis, Memcached, etc., Experience with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes etc, Experience with monitoring tools such as Graphite, clickhouse, Grafana and Prometheus, Experience with observability tools like AppDynamics, Dyantrace or similar tools, Experience with Hashicorp technologies such as Consul, Vault, Terraform and Vagrant, Experience with configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet or Ansible, In-depth experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines, Exposure to Maven, Ant or Gradle for builds
What You'll Do.
Co-develop cloud platform services
Participate in full lifecycle development
Increase effectiveness
Identify and measure key indicators
Make automated changes to production systems
Support cloud platform team
Engage in building production monitoring strategy
Participate in testing/verification process
Measure and monitor availability
Advise on system reliability and scaling
Develop tools for large scale provisioning
Automate deployment processes
Participate in on-call rotation
Lead incident response
Write postmortem analysis reports
Propose system and process improvements
Drive efficiencies in capacity planning
Drive efficiencies in configuration management
Drive efficiencies in scaling services
Drive efficiencies in performance tuning
Drive efficiencies in monitoring
Drive efficiencies in alerting
Drive efficiencies in root cause analysis
Participate in architecture reviews
Participate in design reviews
Create tech-depth tasks for engineering team
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work with engineering team; Participate in architecture reviews; Participate in design reviews
Process & Methodology
Capacity planning, Escalation procedures, Impact analysis, Risk assessments
Full Job Description
Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world! Co-develop and participate in the full lifecycle development of cloud platform services from inception and design, deployment, operation, and improvement by applying scientific principles. \- Increase the effectiveness, reliability, availablity and performance of cloud platform technologies by identifying and measuring key indicators, making changes to the production systems in an automated way and evaluating the results. \- Support cloud platform team before the technologies are pushed for production release through activities such as system design, capacity planning, automation of key deployments, engaging in building a strategy for production monitoring and alerting and participate in testing/verification process. \- Ensure that the cloud platform technologies are maintained properly by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, performance, and system health. Advice the cloud platform team to improve the reliability of the systems in production and scale them based on need. \- Participate in the development process by supporting new features, services, releases and hold an ownership mindset for the cloud platform technologies Develop tools and automate the process for achieving large scale provisioning and deployment of cloud platform technologies \- Participate in on-call rotation for cloud platform technologies. At times of incidents, lead incident response and be part of writing detailed postmortem analysis reports which are brutally honest with no-blame. \- Propose improvements and drive efficiencies in systems and processes related to capacity planning, configuration management, scaling services, performance tuning, monitoring, alerting and root cause analysis \- Participate/work with engineering team by participating in architecture, design reviews for system improvements. Create tech-depth tasks for engineering team for increasing site
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