Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)

Our Systems &Infrastructure Department is growing and offers you the chance to contribute your skills from the start. We are looking for a reliable colleague who works independently, takes responsibility and feels comfortable in an environment with flat hierarchies without micro management.

Responsibilities

• Daily interactions ensuring the health and maintenance of different geographical stacks: hardware, software, application and network are operating at peak performance.
• Perform deep dives into both systemic and latent reliability issues;partner with software and systems engineers across the organization to produce and roll out fixes.
• Troubleshoot issues across the entire stack: hardware, software, application and network.
• Drive standardization efforts across multiple disciplines and services in conjunction with SREs throughout the organization.
• Identify and drive opportunities to improve automation for the company;scope and create automation for deployment, management and visibility of our services.
• Represent the SRE organization in design reviews and operational readiness exercises for new and existing services.
• Work with software engineers to improve upon deployment processes.
• Participate in the on-call rotation for production systems.

Requirements

• Sound fundamentals in operating systems, networking, and distributed systems.
• Strong familiarity with Linux systems administration and management / best practices.
• Familiarity with OS container technology: Kubernetes, CRI, namespaces/cgroups.
• Strong understanding of: Ethernet, VLAN, IPv4/IPv6, ARP, DHCP, DNS, and TCP.
• Familiarity with distributed system problems: leader election, consensus, etc.
• Solid understanding of systems and application design, including the operational trade-offs of various designs.
• Expert level understanding with at least one public or private cloud technology such as Amazon AWS or OpenStack.
• Practical knowledge of various aspects of service design, including messaging protocols &behavior, caching strategies and software design practices.
• Practical, intermediate knowledge of shell scripting, some ruby is a plus.
• Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, web application security, and experience supporting multi-tier web application architectures.
• Excellent knowledge of Linux/UNIX systems administration and performance tuning.
• Comfortable configuring DNS, DHCP, and LAN/WAN technologies.
• Minimum 5 years of managing services in an internet scale *nix environment.
• Must be able to communicate well with technical as well as non-technical colleagues to achieve business goals.

• Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently, must be able to work with multiple teams across multiple subjects.
• Must be adaptable and able to focus on the simplest, most efficient &reliable solutions.
• Track record of successful practical problem solving, excellent written and interpersonal communication, and documentation skills.
• Curiosity and an interest in networking, systems software, and/or distributed systems.
• Experience as a systems administrator or operations engineer.
• Experience with a 24/7 production environment, and you have deployed code to and/or managed deployments providing software, platforms, or infrastructure as a service.
• Experience with Mellanox and Vyatta based networking gear is a plus.
• Experience with Super Micro server and storage gear.