Site Reliability Engineer

SRE - Tech Lead (DevOps):

Location: Permanent Work From Home Option
Notice: Candidates with a notice period of 30 days and less and preferred

SRE-DevOps- Tech Lead - JD:

Srijan is hiring for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), We are looking for SRE/DevOps- Tech Lead or Sr. Tech Lead with strong automation skills and a good understanding of how to build & run secure & reliable platforms for cloud-native applications. Please find below the detailed job description and kindly go through the same for reference:-

Minimum Experience: 6+ years in DevOps/SRE

Permanent WFH option

Job Description:-

The focus of this role is to build scalable, resilient, secure infrastructure for cloud-native applications whilst automating every mundane task you could think of and build observability dashboards, set up alerts, etc to provide optics to relevant stakeholders. In a nutshell: “You are keepers of Production environments”. You must be a problem solver with the ability to multitask and come with strong collaboration and communication skills.

Key Responsibilities:-

• Proactively monitor and review application performance

• Handle on-call and emergency support

• Ensure software has good logging and diagnostics

• Create and maintain operational runbooks

• Contribute in Solution Designing and evaluating Technical Debt

• Set right practices for Well-Defined Architecture & to minimize toil.

• Own SLI, SLO configuration as per Error Budget

• Maintain production services through measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.

• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

• Not be afraid to contribute changes back to the Software engineering team to improve the systems.

• Managing the delivery pipeline into production.

• Able to mentor junior members on regular basis

• Troubleshooting issues with web applications

• Understanding of security principles and best practices

• Ensuring that critical data is backed up

• Configuration of monitoring systems including infrastructure monitoring and Application Performance Monitoring systems such as New Relic.

• Ensuring that web application infrastructure is built

• Ability to act as Customer Technical Advocate and negotiate well with peers on technical fronts.

• Flexible enough to work in different Shifts for hyper business requirement

• Ability to handle multiple global clients on tech front and generate desired reports to represent health of SRE Delivery.

Skills/Experience:-

• A key skill of a SRE Tech Lead is that they have a deep knowledge of the application, the code, and how it runs, is configured, and scales. That knowledge is what makes them so valuable at also monitoring and supporting it as site reliability engineers.

• System administration, security, and networking

• The SRE Tech Lead expected to have a good understanding of system administration (Linux or Windows) and networking.

• Essential commands

• User and Group Management

• Knowledge of networking concepts (DNS, TCP/IP, and Firewalls)

• Service Configuration

• Storage Management

• Good grasp of fundamental security concepts

• Good understanding of infrastructure as code principles.

• Knowledge of a scripting language such as Bash

• Ability to configure infrastructure using a Configuration Management technology such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible.

• Familiarity with Jenkins or any other CI/CD tool

• Proficiency in a high-level programming language such as Python or Go.

• Understanding of container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes

• 2 yrs+ hands on experience with container orchestration technologies such as ECS, EKS, AKS or Kubernetes would be beneficial.

• Use Terraform and other IaC to deploy cloud infrastructure.

Cloud technologies:-

• Experience designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS/Azure

• Hands-on experience using compute, networking, storage, and database AWS/Azure services

• Hands-on experience of 4 yrs+ with AWS/Azure deployment and management services

• Ability to identify and define technical requirements for an AWS/AZURE-based application

• Ability to identify which AWS/AZURE services meet a given technical requirement

• Knowledge of recommended best practices for building secure and reliable applications on the AWS/AZURE platform

• An understanding of the AWS/AZURE global infrastructure

• An understanding of network technologies as they relate to AWS/AZURE

• An understanding of security features and tools that AWS/AZURE provides and how they relate to traditional services

Roles and Responsibilities

• Managing Availability, Performance, Capacity of infrastructure and applications.
• Building and implementing observability for applications health/performance/capacity.
• Optimizing On-call rotations and processes.
• Documenting “tribal” knowledge.
• Managing Infra-platforms like Mesos/Kubernetes,CICD,Observability (Prometheus/New Relic/ELK),Cloud Platforms (AWS/ Azure),Databases,Data Platforms Infrastructure
• Providing help in onboarding new services with production readiness review process.
• Providing reports on services SLO/Error Budgets/Alerts and Operational Overhead.
• Working with Dev and Product teams to define SLO/Error Budgets/Alerts.
• Working with Dev team to have in depth understanding of the application architecture

          and its bottlenecks.

• Identifying observability gaps in product services, infrastructure and working with stake

          owners to fix it.

• Managing Outages and doing detailed RCA with developers and identifying ways to

          avoid that situation.

• Managing/Automating upgrades of the infrastructure services.
• Automate toil work.
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Experience & Skills

• 6+ years of total experience
• Experience as an SRE/DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer on large scale microservices and infrastructure.

• A collaborative spirit with the ability to work across disciplines to influence, learn, and

         deliver.

• A deep understanding of computer science, software development, and networking principles.
• Demonstrated experience with languages, such as Python, Java, Golang etc.
• Extensive experience with Linux administration and good understanding the various

linux kernel subsystems (memory, storage, network etc).

• Extensive experience in DNS, TCP/IP, UDP, GRPC, Routing and Load Balancing.
• Expertise in GitOps, Infrastructure as a Code tools such as Terraform etc.. and
• Configuration Management Tools such as Chef, Puppet, Saltstack, Ansible.
• Expertise of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or other relevant Cloud Infrastructure

solutions like Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.

• Experience in building CI/CD solutions with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, Spinnaker,

Argo etc.

• Experience in managing and deploying containerized environments using Docker,

Mesos/Kubernetes is a plus.

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

• We are looking for a Senior SRE with a proven track record of success leading complex cloud-hybrid environments. You will have:
• Strong sense of Being an Owner, Wearing the Customer Shoes, with the ability to Empower Others demonstrated through clear
• communication and collaboration.
• Skills to work independently with multiple global teams, developing, configuring, deploying, and operating our global infrastructure on AWS and on-prem.
• Operational experience in complex distributed and real-time systems, including experience with SLO/SLAs towards high availability,reliability and DR goals.
• DevOps experience in building tools and frameworks, with an understanding of continuous deployment processes.
• Ability to think at scale, bringing a focus on continuous delivery methodologies from design through deployment and operations.
• Experience building and managing systems with tools including Kubernetes, Chef/Ansible/Puppet, Kafka, Docker, and Terraform.

• 5+ years experience in a Software and/or Site Reliability Engineering role
• Experience writing automation code in GoLang, Python or Java
• Experience developing and operating large scale distributed systems with Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience in running real time and low latency high available applications (Kafka, gRPC, RTP)
• Experience running public cloud environments on AWS
• Experience running hybrid clouds and on-prem infrastructures on Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS
• Bachelor degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience
• The ability to lead, partner, and collaborate cross functionally across an engineering organization

About the Role

Dremio’s SREs ensure that our internal and externally visible services have reliability and uptime appropriate to users' needs and a fast rate of improvement. You will be joining a newly formed team that will spearhead our efforts to launch a cloud service. This is an opportunity to join a very fast growth startup and help build a cloud service from the ground up.

Responsibilities and Ownership

• Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks.
• Evangelize and advocate for reliability practices across our organization.
• Collaborate with other Engineering teams to support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, monitoring/alerting, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Analyze and optimize our core product by developing and implementing reliability and performance practices.
• Scale systems sustainably through automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Be on-call for services that the SRE team owns.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant experience in the following areas: SRE, DevOps, Cloud Operations, Systems Engineering, or Software Engineering.
• Excellent command of cloud services on AWS/GCP/Azure, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.
• Have moderate-advanced experience in Java, C, C++, Python, Go or other object-oriented programming languages.
• You are Interested in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• You have a systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.
• You have a great ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks.
• You have a solid background in software development and architecting resilient and reliable applications.

• 5+ years of software development or site reliability engineering or equivalent experience
• Skilled at problem solving, algorithms, and data structures
• Building tools and scripting frameworks from scratch
• Working with Cloud Automation tools like CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK, aws-cli
• Scripting languages like Python, Groovy, PowerShell, Bash, Perl etc.
• Configuration automation using Ansible or equivalent tools
• Exposure to Windows, Linux administration skills
• Project management tools like Jira, Trello
• Prior experience in dealing with Datastore technologies like Postgres, MySQL, SQL, DynamoDB is desirable
• Familiarity with basic networking, security and cloud engineering concepts
• Team player who is eager to help others to succeed through mentoring and leading by example
• Highly collaborative with effective written and verbal communication skills