SRE Lead

at Zycus

Who You Are

• Creative thinker and strong problem solver with meticulous attention to detail
• Highly organized, creative, motivated, and passionate about achieving results
• Able to balance multiple tasks and projects effectively and quickly adapt to new situations and technologies
• Able to work both independently and as part of a team
• Systematic problem-solver, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive

 

What you need

• 3-7 years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or a mix of a software engineer and DevOps.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Linux fundamentals, System administration scripting, performance tuning/scalability, troubleshooting.
• Write great quality code using SOLID principles including unit and integration tests.
• Hands-on development experience in an object-orientated programming language like Python.
• Hands-on experience developing task automations
• Experience using tools to create and manage CI (continuous integration) and CD (continuous delivery) pipelines.
• Familiarity with software development tools: source code management (SCM systems), code review systems, issue tracking tools, build tools, test frameworks, code quality tools.
• Experience implementing open-source observability and alerting tools, like Prometheus, Grafana, Cortex, Thanos, Alertmanager etc
• Have decent knowledge on networking (VPC, VNet, DNS etc) and of the TCP/IP stack, internet routing and load balancing.
• Worked with log and configuration management tool
• Prior experience of working with AWS, Azure, GCP is a plus
• Prior experience of working with Kubernetes, Docker and containers is plus
• Strong interpersonal communication skills (including listening, speaking, and writing) and ability to work well in a diverse, team-focused environment with other SREs, Engineers, Product Managers, etc.
• Documenting your work should be in your DNA

 

What you get

• A chance to develop and build something (probably from scratch) which you can be proud of
• Build and Implement modern systems observability solutions including monitoring, alerting, metrics, logging, and APM & distributed tracing.
• Scale systems sustainably through automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Maintain business continuity by identifying and driving opportunities to make systems highly resilient and human-free.
• Closely work with the software engineering team to ensure accurate monitoring and metrics are being built into applications before going to production.
• Develop and maintain software modules for use and re-use in cloud and on-premise systems automation.
• Identify process gaps and implement process improvements to increase operational reliability
• Drive standardization efforts across the services, infrastructure, systems, and practices
• Develop Systems & Tools to help with Development team to uphold the Reliability principles

Hey there!

 

Biostrap is based in Los Angeles, California with our team working remotely in several countries around the globe. This is a remote position, you’ll need a computer and a high speed internet connection.

 

We are looking for the tough kinds, the warrior ones, always learning  Sr. Devops Engineers to take care of our infrastructure and site reliability @ Biostrap. As an engineer at Biostrap, you will be a part of a lean but extremely passionate team of engineers and work towards making and keeping Biostrap as the go-to best health platform

 

Responsibilities: What would the job be like?

• Work closely with the engineering team to deploy and maintain the infrastructure.
• Add automation at every part of the development and deployment lifecycle.
• Analyze and help in Infrastructure cost optimizations.
• Build and work with CI + CD workflows..
• Build robust observability system for system monitoring and tracing.
• Architect scalable logging servers.
• Add extensive alerting systems for various important issues, events using monitoring and logging services.
• Work with other engineers in developing architecture that is scalable and resilient to changes in product requirements and usage in an agile environment.
• Security Hardening of cloud infrastructure against known/unknown vulnerabilities
• Write Infrastructure as Code for most of the cloud.
• Suggest and implement pragmatic changes to infrastructure to increase performance, resilience and availability and to fool-proof infrastructure for future.
• Build auditing systems for various resource accesses and have a breach detection notification system.
• Do periodic security reviews and implement improvements.
• Be incharge of and manage deployments of various services.
• Work with aws resources, containers and systems like Ansible/EKS/kubernetes.

 

Qualifications: Who should apply for this role?

• You have 3+ years of working in small to medium size teams building and shipping products.
• Strong grasp of at least one of the scripting or systems languages like Python, Javascript, Golang etc.
• Good experience managing various AWS resources.
• Well equipped with Linux and Bash/Shell scripting
• Working knowledge of Docker or container management.
• Have some development experience with Kubernetes.
• You spin out containers as if it's your fantasy war ground. 
• Understand deployment tools like Ansible or similar.
• Built and worked with CI+CD systems like Gitlab Ci, Jenkins, CircleCi, Travis etc.
• Working knowledge of GIT for version control.
• Experience with database management and security.
• Experience with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
• Knowledge of configuration management and secrets/keys management services like AWS KMS, Vault etc.
• Required to be proficient in English (both speaking and writing).

 

 

Brownie Points for (:D):

• You already use Biostrap and have plenty of feedback to provide.
• You can lecture developers on scalable infrastructures.
• You have built or worked with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK systems.
• You have a story to tell about how you managed a failure or was part of a disaster recovery.
• You contribute to Open Source projects or have a good Github/GitLab presence to showcase your past projects.
• You have sent your code to Space and it runs “a” Rover on Mars. :P

What are we looking for:
● Research, propose and evaluate with a 5-year vision, the architecture, design, technologies,
processes and profiles related to Telco Cloud.
● Participate in the creation of a realistic technical-strategic roadmap of the network to transform
it to Telco Cloud and be prepared for 5G.
● Using your deep technical expertise, you will provide detailed feedback to Product Management
and Engineering, as well as contribute directly to the platform code base to enhance both the
Customer experience of the service, as well as the SRE quality of life.
● The individual must be aware of trends in network infrastructure as well as within the network
engineering and OSS community. What technologies are being developed or launched?
● The individual should stay current with infrastructure trends in the telco network cloud domain.
● Be responsible for the Engineering of Lab and Production Telco Cloud environments, including
patches, upgrades, and reliability and performance improvements.
Required Minimum Qualifications: (Education and Technical Skills/Knowledge)
● Software Engineering degree, MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
● Years of experiences as an SRE, DevOps, Development and/or Support related role
● 0-5 years of professional experience for a junior position
● At least 8 years of professional experience for a senior position
● Unix server administration and tuning : Linux / RedHat / CentOS / Ubuntu
● You have deep knowledge in Networking Layers 1-4
● Cloud / Virtualization (at least two): Helm, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud,
OpenStack, OpenShift, VMware vSphere / Tanzu
● You have in-depth knowledge of cloud storage solutions on top of AWS, GCP, Azure and/or
on-prem private cloud, such as Ceph, CephFS, GlusterFS
● DevOps: Jenkins, Git, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform
● Backend Knowledge Bash, Python, Go (other knowledge of Scripting Language is a plus).
● PaaS Level solutions such as Keycloak for IAM, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, DBaaS (such as MySQL,
Cassandra)
About the Organisation:
The team at Coredge.io is a combination of experienced and young professionals alike having
many years of experience in working with Edge computing, Telecom application development
and Kubernetes. The company has continuously collaborated with the open source community,
universities and major industry players in furthering its goal of providing the industry with an
indispensable tool to offer improved services to its customers. Coredge.io has a global market
presence with its offices in US and New Delhi, India.