Site Reliability Engineer

Dark Wolf Solutions is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Subject Matter Expert (SME) to build and maintain infrastructure as code on large scale multi-site deployments. The SRE SME shall utilize their technical leadership experience to evaluate and assess new ways to scale platform capabilities. The SRE shall be able to automate workflows to help push the limit of the infrastructure and enable continuous delivery of capabilities onto a hybrid infrastructure. The engineer shall be able to troubleshoot issues until root causes are understood on high traffic production systems, participate in design and code review processes, interact with product owners to coordinate infrastructure changes and be responsible for identifying bottlenecks and improving performance of the platform.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate cross-functionally with software developers, engineers, and operations teams.
• Monitor sites and software to make sure they’re performing properly. 
• Anticipates potential problems before they occur and provides dynamic solutions. 
• Conduct post-incident reviews. 
• Build sustainability by coding automation within a site infrastructure.
• Experience in Technical Customer Service, Customer Management, and experience in escalations may be required.
• Run our infrastructure with Chef, Ansible, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, and Kubernetes.
• Design, build and maintain core infrastructure that enables GitLab scaling to support hundreds of thousands of concurrent users.
• Respond to incidents that impact platform availability and provide support for service engineers with customer incidents.
• Build monitoring that alerts on symptoms rather than on outages.
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.
• Create and maintain documentation for actions and implementations to drive sustainability and then automation.
• Drive the strategic plan for PaaS infrastructure growth

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience developing production software leveraging modern languages (including: Java, Python, Go, NodeJS, etc.)
• 1+ years of experience developing containerized services deployed in production on orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm, etc.
• 3+ years of experience with agile and lean software development philosophies.
• 1+ years of experience working with relational and/or non-relational databases e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch etc.
• 2+ years of demonstrated experience with modern version control systems such as Git, Subversion, Mercurial, etc.
• HS Diploma
• US Citizenship and clearable to a DoD Secret security clearance or higher.