AWS Site Reliability Engineer

As AWS Site Reliability Engineering team, you will be at the forefront of Cloud and Big Data technology. In this role you will establish yourself as a technical leader by exposing yourself to a broad range of industry leading technologies that will help to drive acceleration. The ideal candidate will have expert design and development capabilities and be positioned to contribute to a growing set of services and features for the ecosystem. This role will be supporting highly available, business critical applications. This role will serve as the escalation point for complex and hard to define issues in both on premise and AWS environments. We are seeking talented engineers, well versed in DevOps technologies, automation, infrastructure orchestration, configuration management, continuous integration, troubleshooting of complex issues, who are not constrained by how things are usually done. What youll be doing? Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of servicesfrom inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement Support capacity planning, availability, scalability, security and latency considerations for new infrastructure and service provisioning as appropriate Responsible for improvements to end-to-end availability and performance of mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence. Partner with business and technical product owners to set SLOs / SLIs / error budgets to manage reliability of infrastructure and applications Partner with other SREs to bring best practices or learnings from across the organization to them Scale and optimize existing infrastructure and services sustainably through mechanisms, including automation, and evolve them by improving reliability and efficiency Manage end-to-end availability and performance of mission-critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence Maintain infrastructure (infrastructure as code) and services by measuring, and monitoring system metrics to proactively identify operational efficiencies, potential outages and security threats in Development, UAT, Staging and Production environments Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems Build infrastructure and drive projects that break things with the aim to improve the robustness of production systems Use the core Site Reliability Engineering principles of change management, monitoring, emergency response, capacity planning, and production readiness reviews to run the platform Step back to observe patterns and develop innovative tools and automation to eliminate or minimize menial tasks. Use those learnings to drive the best operational practices Develop and maintain solution and operational documentation and designs for all infrastructure and services within the scope of SRE Preserve operational visibility and response capabilities fixing and improving our dashboards, alerts, and automation Maintain operational uptime and reliability by participating in triage and issue support calls for mission critical systems Who are you? Strong experience setting SLOs / SLIs / error budgets and managing of reliability for infrastructure and applications Proficient in one or more of the following scripting languages: JavaScript, Nodejs, Python, Maven, Ansible, Bash, etc. Experience handling large numbers of diverse systems with configuration management systems like Puppet, Chef, Ansible Proven history of toil elimination by leveraging automation Strong background using tools like PagerDuty for managing incidents Strong experience with monitoring and alerting systems like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog. Understanding of standard networking protocols and components such as HTTP, DNS, ECMP, TCP/IP, ICMP, the OSI Model, Subnetting and Load Balancing strategies Experience in Serverless Application Framework Experience in containerized workloads and management platforms such as Docker or Kubernetes Familiarity with distributed systems is a plus including Microservices Experience in Infrastructure automation tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform Understanding of CI/CD processes and experience with deployment automation tools such as Code Pipeline, Code Deploy, Jenkins, Bamboo Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills Effective communication, collaboration & negotiation skills with the ability to interface with various business units and third parties Experience liaising with developers, operations staff and third-party resources Experience with API integration projects Advisory o Software Engineering, Computer Science equivalent, or STEM degree (Desirable) or commensurate experience 10+ years of total software engineering experience 2+ years support a production system on a DevOps team 2+ years of experience running and building systems in cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure.

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