Application Site Reliability Engineer - Data&AI

Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Site Reliability Engineer you will specialize in ensuring the reliability and resiliency of our systems. Bringing a unique blend of knowledge and skills in both software and systems you will play a key role in analyzing business needs identifying and solving problems advising and designing solutions building and testing deploying and managing changes and maintaining well-engineered information systems and ecosystems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Reliability and Resilience
• Specialize in ensuring the reliability and resiliency of systems fostering a high-availability environment.
• Problem Analysis and Resolution
• Analyze business needs and proactively identify and solve problems to enhance system performance and stability.
• End-to-End Engineering:
• Play a pivotal role in advising designing building testing deploying and maintaining well-engineered information systems.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
– Experience in a software development and delivery role
– Experience in Cloud/DevOps engineering and/or Linux administration
– Experience with at least one major public cloud provider or large scale private/hybrid cloud using container orchestration
– Experience with a modern configuration management framework (Ansible Chef Puppet)
– Production experience with one or more monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus Grafana Zabbix etc.)
– Scripting skills in at least one language (BASH Python Ruby etc.)
– Experience with source control management (git subversion etc.)
– Understanding of software development life cycle and delivery process
– Ability to manage multiple tasks while ensuring that commitments and timetables are met
– Ability to partner with internal stakeholders to design operational solutions
– Ability to work with short timeline and under stress and oncall
– Goal oriented forward thinker that can provide solutions for complex technical problems

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
– Production Kubernetes/OpenShift experience preferred
– Experience with pipeline tools for deploying and managing applications
– Experience with Prometheus Grafana Loki
– Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools
– Comfortable developing with and analyzing issues in databases (relational and nosql)