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Role: Lead SRE Engineer
Hybrid - Minnetonka, MN
Exp: 10 yrs
Any Visa type is okay
Responsibilities:
- System Reliability and Performance: Lead and drive end to end (Supply Chain) reliability, availability, and performance of applications in Digital Experience.
- Monitoring and Alerting: Design, implement, and maintain robust monitoring and alerting systems to proactively identify and resolve issues.
- Infra Capacity Planning: Drive capacity planning, ensuring that systems can handle current and future workloads.
- Incident Response: Lead and guide Org level application teams in incident response efforts, ensuring quick and effective resolution of issues.
- Performance Tuning: Drive and implement best practices and controls to identify the bottlenecks and support performance tuning before production rollout
- Post-Incident Reviews: Drive and support post-incident(P1/P2) reviews to identify root causes and prevent future incidents.
- Security: Lead application teams to adopt industry standard best practices in managing security certs, Secrets and Non-User Id s to avoid any issues and outages.
- Change Management: Implement robust change management processes to ensure that changes to the system are deployed safely and reliably.
- Peak Season Readiness: Support Digital teams to get prepared for peak season in terms of overall E2E system resiliency and redundancy to handle expected peak usage volumes.
- War room Playbooks: Support teams in preparation of playbook with War room scenarios.
- Auto Failover & Auto Scaling: Lead and Support application teams in adopting best auto failover and auto scaling strategies to maintain overall system resiliency.
- Collaboration with Engineers: Work with application development teams to understand their needs, identify potential reliability issues, and improve the software development lifecycle.
- Cloud: Define and develop Cloud strategy for the enterprise, focusing on AWS, aligned with IT requirements
Requirements:
- A solid expertise in driving SRE principles and at least 5 years of leading experience to guide SRE engineers.
- Experience in supporting Digital web products
- Strong experience in Java, Web, Microservices, Springboot, React, UI/UX, Security, Stability, Production Operations
- Monitoring & Observability APM tools like Dynatrace Clod, Splunk, Elastic APM, Interlink and Grafana.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and their services.
- Experience with containers (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes
- AI tools like GitHub Copilot, Chat Playground.
- Incidents management tools like Service now.
- Understanding of CI/CD and using GitHub actions.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- DB: MongoDB and MySQL
- Proficiency in automation technologies and tools like Terraform.
- Good Documentation skills.
Outcomes:
- Increased system Reliability and 99.999% availability
- End to End (Supply chain) Resiliency and Redundancy.
- Improved Customer Satisfaction
- Faster Incident Detection, Engagement and Restoration.
- Advanced automated controls to reduce human touchpoints in Monitoring workflows
- Leverage AI to drive improvements
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