Verisign
internet infrastructure services
SiteReliabilityEngineer
“Site Reliability Engineer at Verisign. Skills: Site Reliability Engineering, Kubernetes, Linux, Automation, Infrastructure-as-Code. Participate in technical designs for products migrating to a shared Kubernetes environment. Installation, configuration, and maintenance of physical hosts used to support production and non-production applications”
What You'll Achieve.
building, managing, maintaining, deploying, and securing mission-critical services to make the Internet work; keeping these systems up and running
Industry & Context.
excellent troubleshooting instincts; curious; demonstrate initiative; love solving problems
24x7 on-call rotation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and experience, 8+ years of experience deploying and operating mission-critical systems, Excellent understanding of Linux configuration and administration automation experience, Understanding of physical servers and the demands of maintaining them, understanding of infrastructure-as-code, understanding of and production experience with Kubernetes workloads, written and verbal communication skills – able to clearly and succinctly describe complex issues, Familiarity with networking protocols and systems
Nice to Have
Experience with RHEL 8/9, Experience with SELinux, Experience with IBM POWER hardware and AIX operating systems, Experience with ServiceNow, Experience with a high-level scripting language such as Python, Experience with network troubleshooting using such tools as ping, traceroute and dig, Deployment automation experience using tools such as Ansible, Experience working with teams using Kanban and/or Scrum a plus, Experience with Docker in a production environment, Experience with OpenStack in a production environment, Experience with Unix-like systems in a large-scale environment, Experience using Jenkins in a continuous delivery and integration environment
What You'll Do.
Participate in technical designs for products migrating to a shared Kubernetes environment
and maintenance of physical hosts used to support production and non-production applications
Development of deployment automation using Ansible
Orchestration of Kubernetes workloads
Coordination with other technical staff to deploy systems and software
Performance of operational support functions
including problem isolation and resolution
Documentation of processes
Provide critical technical leadership in Kubernetes environments (on-prem and AWS)
Regularly reporting progress to management
Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation with other team members
Work with software developers to plan and deploy services and software
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Coordination with other technical staff to deploy systems and software; Work with software developers to plan and deploy services and software; Experience working with teams using Kanban and/or Scrum a plus
Communication Scope
written and verbal communication skills – able to clearly and succinctly describe complex issues
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