This role involves managing and automating infrastructure, deploying applications, ensuring system availability on cloud platforms, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Position: Site Reliability Engineer
Job Summary
As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the availability and performance of our customer-facing platform. You will work closely with DevOps, DBA, and Development teams to provision and maintain infrastructure, deploy and monitor our applications, and automate workflows. Your contributions will have a direct impact on customer satisfaction and overall experience.
Responsibilities and Deliverables
- Manage, monitor, and maintain highly available systems (Windows and Linux)
- Analyze metrics and trends to ensure rapid scalability.
- Address routine service requests while identifying ways to automate and simplify.
- Create infrastructure as code using Terraform, ARM Templates, Cloud Formation.
- Maintain data backups and disaster recovery plans.
- Design and deploy CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Octopus, Ansible, Jenkins, Azure DevOps.
- Adhere to security best practices through all stages of the software development lifecycle
- Follow and champion ITIL best practices and standards.
- Become a resource for emerging and existing cloud technologies with a focus on AWS.
Organizational Alignment
- Reports to the Senior SRE Manager
- This role involves close collaboration with DevOps, DBA, and security teams.
Technical Proficiencies
- Hands-on experience with AWS is a must-have.
- Proficiency analyzing application, IIS, system, security logs and CloudTrail events
- Practical experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Octopus
- Experience with observability tools such as New Relic, Application Insights, AppDynamics, or DataDog.
- Experience maintaining and administering Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes.
- Experience in automation using scripting languages such as Bash, PowerShell, or Python.
- Configuration management experience using Ansible, Terraform, Azure Automation Run book or similar.
- Experience with SQL Server database maintenance and administration is preferred.
- Good Understanding of networking (VNET, subnet, private link, VNET peering).
- Familiarity with cloud concepts including certificates, Oauth, AzureAD, ASE, ASP, AKS, Azure Apps, Load Balancers, Application Gateway, Firewall, Load Balancer, API Management, SQL Server, Databases on Azure
Experience
- 5+ years of experience in SRE or System Administration role
- Demonstrated ability building and supporting high availability Windows/Linux servers, with emphasis on the WISA stack (Windows/IIS/SQL Server/ASP.net)
- 3+ years of experience with CI/CD tools
- 3+ years of experience working with cloud technologies including AWS, Azure.
- 1+ years of experience working with container technology including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Comfortable using Scrum, Kanban, or Lean methodologies.
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree or College Diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
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