What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Site Reliability Engineer position at HIREBLAZER?
Role: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Location: Austin, TX (Onsite for Tus to Thu and (Remote for Mon and Friday)
Duration: 6 Months (Contract to Hire)
Experience: 5 Years
Primary Skills: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), DevOps, Python and/or Go, Linux/Unix, Puppet and/or Ansible, Chef and Networking
Description
The client team is looking for an innovative SRE with experience managing physical infrastructure and cloud solutions to design, build, and maintain our core infrastructure. This infrastructure enables thousands of the client Developers to submit their Apps to the App Store that delight millions of the client customers. We also support the client Music, Books and Podcasts. In this role you will: collaborate with multi-functional teams to understand requirements, design and implement resilient and scalable reliability solutions, play a vital role in incident response to diagnose and resolve problems minimizing outages and downtime in a high pressure and large-scale environment. We evaluate and integrate new technologies to improve system reliability, security, and performance and develop and implement automation to provision, configure, deploy, and monitor infrastructure components.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5 years in Site Reliability Engineering, or DevOps focused role
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical background involving software/system engineering, or related work experience.
- Strong programming skills: Python and/or Go
- In depth knowledge of Linux/Unix
- Experienced in deploying and managing infrastructure using config management like Puppet and/or Ansible, Chef
- Troubleshooting and debugging experience
- Previous networking experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to autonomously manage cross functional projects, communicate expectations, set timelines and drive to completion
- Experience supporting data center operation, distributed systems, and production services
- Experience with Kubernetes and virtualization
- Experience with Docker
- Familiarity with Jenkins pipelines