Senior DevOps Engineer - SRE and SaaS Support

Job Description

Job Description

Opening / Selling Statement -We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with a strong Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) focus to support Jeppesen's transition of Crew Management Applications to a web-based SaaS model hosted on AWS. This role is critical in ensuring the success of this transition by bridging development and customer support, maintaining system reliability, and implementing automation and monitoring solutions.

Required Skills - DevOps, Cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes

Job Duties Deliverables Alignment : Develop solutions in line with key deliverables, including metrics collection, dashboards, reliability audits, and runbooks.

• Liaison Role : Act as a primary interface between the development team in Sweden and the US-based customer support team.
• Automation and CI / CD : Build and optimize CI / CD pipelines and scripts to automate generation, testing, deployment, and monitoring of customized builds.
• Observability : Implement and refine monitoring solutions using OpenTelemetry and Grafana for enhanced visibility into system performance.
• Reliability Audits : Conduct reliability audits for existing deployments, document findings, rank issues by criticality, and address concerns through merge requests or escalations.
• Production Support : Provide 24 / 7 Tier II production support on a rotational basis, handling escalations and minimizing downtime.
• Training and Documentation : Prepare technical training and documentation, including runbooks, playbooks, and onboarding materials for Tier I and Tier II support teams.
• Dashboards and Metrics : Develop Grafana dashboards for approximately 50-70 services, including Kubernetes platform and internal services.
• Issue Resolution : Investigate and resolve issues reported from lower-tier teams, ensuring timely resolution and continuous improvement.
• Game Day Scenarios : Collaborate with teams to plan and execute Game Day scenarios, simulating and preparing for likely system failures.
• Collaboration : Work closely with cross-functional teams to enhance operational efficiency and contribute to system and application improvements.

Job Requirements Experience : 8 years in DevOps, SRE, or similar roles, with a focus on cloud-hosted, microservices-based environments.

Desired Skills & Experience Experience conducting reliability audits and implementing scalable solutions.

Required Skills : DevOps

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This is a high PRIORITY requisition. This is a PROACTIVE requisition

Background Check : No

Drug Screen : No