Cloud App Engineer - remote

UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group)
Posted 3 years ago
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Site Reliability Engineers at UKG Technology and Innovation are hybrid software/system engineers that have a breadth of knowledge encompassing all aspects of service delivery. They develop software solutions to enhance, harden and support our service delivery processes. This can include building and managing CI/CD deployment pipelines, automated testing, capacity planning, performance analysis, monitoring, alerting, chaos engineering and auto remediation.

Primary/Essential Duties and Key Responsibilities:

  • Be part of Development Experience SRE team who’s focus is on enhancing developer experience and maintain a set of production applications.
  • Liaison between teams outside of SaaS
  • Document application configurations
  • Communicating information across the organization
  • Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement.
  • Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews.
  • Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
  • Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
  • Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

Required Qualifications: 

  • Engineering degree, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience
  • Experience with Cloud based applications
  • Experience with Containerization Technologies
  • Experience with Microsoft and Linux Technologies
  • Experience with VMWare or other Virtual Server Software
  • Experience working with languages such as Python, Powershell, Javascript, C++, or Java)
  • Experience in configuration and maintenance of applications such as web servers, load balancers, relational databases, storage systems and messaging systems
  • Experience with MongoDB, MySQL, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, and others
  • Experience with operating systems and TCP/IP network fundamentals
  • Experience learning software, frameworks and APIs
  • Ability and willingness to work evenings / nights on occasion.
  • Ability to lead and work in projects
  • Experience with distributed system design and architecture
  • Experience building and managing CI/CD Pipelines
  • Experience with public or private cloud platforms (e.g. GCP, Kubernetes, or Openstack)
  • Experience with Production level monitoring and alerting with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • A BS in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field of study is preferred

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Typical Interview Process:

  • If your application is selected, a Talent Acquisition Team Member will reach out to schedule a phone screen with them.
  • If selected to move forward, you will complete a HackerRank Coding Assessment.
  • If you pass, you will either move forward to a technical phone call for an additional screening, OR directly to an onsite interview.
  • Offer stage.