Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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Primary Location: United States (US) - Iowa - Milan
Function: Technology (CA)
Title: Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Onsite/Remote:Remote Position
Visa Sponsorship is Available!
Your Responsibilities
As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer within John Deere, you will be responsible for solving problems and evangelizing the benefits of the Site Reliability Engineering discipline across the ISG organization. This is an opportunity to reaching across multiple teams to ensure the operation and reliability of our Precision Farming data processing pipeline. You'll have the ability to impact the resiliency by working with teams to implement and teach them the values of automation, observability, and operations utilizing AWS products and other tools.
Your Responsibilities:

• Lead in the anticipation, analysis, and delivery of solutions and infrastructure to increase the resiliency of ISG applications.
• Implement and Utilize observability tools to Discover, Analyze, and Investigate issues in our Precision Farming Data Platform Systems.
• Engage with multiple product teams to implement automation and resiliency methods.
• Develop and Implement common DevOps tools in order to make infrastructure and automation more common across teams.
• Define and Develop automation and processes for Incident and Problem Management
• Evangelize the benefits of the Site Reliability to Engineers across ISG and John Deere.

What Skills You Need
5 or more years in the following:

• Experience in developing applications using AWS products and services (ex. RDS, EC2, S3, ECS, CloudWatch)
• Practical experience with container technologies (Docker, AWS ECS, etc.)
• Practical experience in Operational Troubleshooting, Incident Management, and Problem Management
• Experience in software development, administration, and CI/CD
• Strong communication and leadership skills including relationship management and conflict management skills
• Strong critical thinking and decision-making skills

What Makes You Stand Out

• Experience in the troubleshooting, diagnosis, and resolution of large, high priority incidents.
• Knowledge of Java and Scala standards, practices, and expertise
• Experience with Terraform or other cloud agnostic tools
• Experience developing with Java, JavaScript, Python, Golang, or other common languages used in AWS

Education
Ideally you will have a degree or equivalent related work experience in the following:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Software Development and/or IT Operations

What You'll Get
At John Deere, you are empowered to create a career that will take you to where you want to go while working in an inclusive team environment. Here, you'll enjoy the freedom to explore new projects, the support to think outside the box and the advanced tools and technology that foster innovation and achievement. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive reward package to help you get started on your new career path, including:

• Flexible work arrangements
• Highly competitive base pay and performance bonuses
• Savings & Retirement benefits (401K and Defined Benefit Pension)
• Healthcare benefits with a generous company contribution in the Health Savings Account
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Tuition assistance
• Fitness subsidies and on-site gyms at specific Deere locations
• Charitable contribution match
• Employee Purchase Plan & numerous discount programs for personal use

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The information contained herein is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and qualifications required of individuals performing the job. The qualifications detailed in this job description are not considered the minimum requirements necessary to perform the job, but rather as guidelines.
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