Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Are you passionate about all aspects of cloud infrastructure and cloud-hosted applications, from deployment and configuration to monitoring, security, performance, and high availability? Do you prioritize infrastructure as code and continuous compliance? Are you seeking a collaborative work environment where you can build strong relationships with both business partners and fellow team members? Are you an active learner, continuously immersing yourself in the global development community through books, blogs, podcasts, local groups, or social media? Do you want to work with professionals who are open to your insights, expertise, and mentorship? If this sounds like you, then you might be Fivesky’s next Site Reliability Engineer (SRE).

Who you are: 

• 5+ years of IT infrastructure experience overall.
• 3+ years of experience migrating and managing AWS workloads.
• 3+ years experience being an on-call DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Operations senior engineer. 
• 2+ years experience implementing Terraform best practices for infrastructure in AWS.
• Obsessive need to automate. Relevant languages include: bash, python, PowerShell, and AWS CLI.
• Familiarity with AWS platforms such as EC2, VPC, S3, ELB, RDS, Route53, and more.
• Proven track record of designing, building, sizing, optimizing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure in AWS and Azure
• Proven track record of designing, implementing, and maintaining full build/release pipelines in a cloud environment (Jenkins/TeamCity/GitLab/GitHub Actions experience preferred)
• Understanding and experience with implementing best security practices in AWS / Linux / Kubernetes, pen testing and internal vulnerability analysis/incident response
• Experience in monitoring, system performance data collection and analysis, and reporting.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (CSA) certification.
• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, cross-organizational skills.
• Strong windows background.

What you will do:

• Work with internal teams to deliver substantially improved platforms to manage our hybrid cloud environment
• Share responsibility for the health, scalability, and availability of our cloud services.
• Automate deployment of AWS of infrastructure and services
• Work with the team to ensure cloud architecture meets scalability, availability, and cost requirements
• Follow good operational practices such as the creation of incident tickets along with maintaining documentation as needed
• Design, code, test, and deliver software to automate manual operational work
• Troubleshoot priority incidents, facilitate blameless post-mortems, and ensure permanent closure of incidents
• Engage with the development team throughout the life cycle to help develop software for reliability and scale, ensuring minimal refactoring or changes
• Identify application patterns and analytics in support of better service-level objectives
• Design self-healing and resiliency patterns
• Design automated software and product upgrades, and release management solutions
• Design, develop, ship, and motivate the creation of software and systems to increase product reliability and organizational efficiency.
• Protect the infrastructure and core applications from configuration drift using config management tooling for compliance
• Be an AWS platform expert in the ‘core’ infrastructure areas (VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, etc.).
• Contribute to codebase with Terraform, and other automation and scripting languages

Who we are: 

Fivesky is a fast-growing, global technology solution provider. We partner with the world’s largest financial service firms to deliver networking/infrastructure, cybersecurity, and cloud-based solutions for complex, global projects.

At Fivesky, our employees are our greatest asset and we strive to build a strong team culture centered on highly competitive compensation, professional development, career advancement, and fun.

Fivesky is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with anti-discrimination law, it is the purpose of this policy to effectuate these principles and mandates. Fivesky prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law. 

This is a full-time, direct employment opportunity in Alpharetta, GA. The salary is open based on experience and qualifications.

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