Senior SRE Engineer - Remote US

There is a unique opportunity to accelerate the electrification journey with
cleantech solutions. GridX is looking for an experienced and exceptional Senior SRE Engineer
to become a part of our SRE.
This Senior SRE Engineer will become a part of the team that owns the process,
implementation, and management for a reliable, available, manageable, performant, and
scalable cloud-based infrastructure working closely with the development and the automation
teams.
Objectives of this Role

• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health
• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
• Run our cloud based (AWS) development, staging and production environments by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health and optimizing cost
• Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve the utilization, availability, and reliability
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for our cloud-based solutions for multiple enterprise customers

Responsibilities

• Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in deployment automation, performance tuning, fault finding and cost optimization
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives
• Experience in monitoring, alerting, and ensuring that the entire infrastructure is proactively ahead of security vulnerabilities

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or other highly technical, scientific discipline
• 5+ years' experience with cloud-based infrastructure providers like AWS (required) and
  GCP (nice to have), Azure (nice to have)
• Proficiency with Git and GitHub is required
• Familiarity with Terraform or Ansible and other scripting like Python is required
• Experience with database and distributed storage technologies like NFS, HDFS, S3
• Experience with dynamic resource management frameworks like Kubernetes, Docker,
  and other container frameworks in general
• Practical deployment, configuration and maintenance experience with Spark, Akka,
• A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance
  bottlenecks
• Practical experience with using build, version control and monitoring tools like Jenkins,
  DataDog, Splunk is preferred
• Enthusiastic, go-for-it, motivated to get things done approach

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous success in technical engineering
• Coding experience beyond simple scripts

Benefits

• Flexible PTO
• Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• 401k Match
• Stock Options
• Parental Leave
• Be part of creating our clean energy future

About GridX
GridX is the catalyst of our clean energy future. Utilities and energy technology providers rely
on our analytics solutions to tell people exactly what they can expect to pay when making
clean energy decisions, like changing to a time-of-use rate plan, buying an electric vehicle,
installing solar and more. The result is less strain on the electric grid, happier customers, and
increased consumer investment in sustainable technologies. Working at GridX puts you at the
center of realizing our clean energy future.