What are the responsibilities and job description for the Site Reliability Engineer || Hybrid || Can sit in Kansas City, MO or Dallas, TX position at Paradigm Infotech?
Job Details
Role: Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Can sit in Kansas City, MO or Dallas, TX
Work mode :( Hybrid 3 days onsite)
Rate: ---k/year
Visa: USC
Job Description
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Operational performance and stability: work with other members of assigned value stream to ensure that the in-scope applications/platforms are meeting performance and stability requirements; this includes managing major incidents to mitigation/resolution
- Problem management: perform post-incident reviews of all major incidents and determine action items required to avoid similar issues/minimize downtime for future incidents
- Monitoring and metrics:
- work with application development team to ensure that assigned applications/platforms have appropriate monitoring and metrics in place to appropriately measure performance and stability
- identify functional and nonfunctional improvements
- act as the operations representative in value stream planning and prioritization sessions to ensure that the operational needs of the assigned applications/platforms are addressed as needed
- hold quarterly operational performance reviews with value stream management
- Operational readiness:
- ensure that applications/platforms in the value stream are operationally ready for production; this includes annual review of all SOPs/knowledge articles
- monitor review for any new feature launch or other significant changes that may impact monitoring
- Release Planning and Coordination:
- work with other members of assigned value stream to ensure that the production releases for their in-scope applications/platforms are properly planned and coordinated; this includes holding change/release implementation reviews to ensure thorough and appropriate implementation plans
- provide review and sign-off/approval of change tickets for the assigned value stream
- represent the value stream in Change Advisory board meetings
- participate in Program Increment Planning sessions as a liaison for operations and infrastructure support
- provide information regarding upcoming critical changes to the value stream
- The requirements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employee, but is not a complete list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required. Other duties may be assigned.
Requirements
Minimum Requirements:
Education and Experience
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5 to 8 years of hands-on, professional software development experience in building scalable applications that includes experience working in a multi-platform environment and multi-cloud hybrid environments; experience with CI/CD pipeline tools; experience with clustering technologies (High Availability, Resiliency, Reliability and Scaling); and experience in DevOps skills and methodologies
- Proficiency in design principles of monitoring and alerting systems
- Proficiency with one or more general purpose programming languages; one or more scripting languages; automation tools; development tools; API interaction and development; and one or more version control systems
Preferred Technologies
- Cloud providers Azure, AWS, CGP
- Operating systems Linux, Windows
- General programming languages Python, Go, Typescript
- Scripting languages Bash, Powershell
- CI/CD Azure DevOps, Flux, Github
- Automation tools Terraform, Ansible
- Development Visual Studio, Git, FastAPI, React, Typescript, Redis
- Monitoring and incident response PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Prometheus, Grafana
- Infrastructure tools AKS, Kubernetes, Docker, VMware, Infoblox, Active Directory, Nutanix
- Network Cisco, Hyperflex, F5, Azure Frontdoor, Azure Application Gateway
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Proficiency in monitoring, alerting, analyzing and troubleshooting
- Good understanding of defining and executing high availability, disaster recovery, sustained resiliency, and chaos engineering tests
- Able to demonstrate a passion for finding and improving efficiencies with infrastructure, development and deployment automation
- Able to enhance and maintain complex software components and distributed systems
- Able to define and drive adoption of a best-in-class monitoring framework to accomplish end-to-end application or service monitoring
- Able to monitor and report on SLA/SLO for given applications services
- Able to develop and maintain operational dashboards to establish key performance indicators and trends
- Able to lead and participate in non-functional testing (performance and resilience) and identify bottlenecks, opportunities for optimization, and capacity demands
- Knowledge of control application log collection and analysis; able to automate processes and systems configuration/deployment
- Able to partner with security engineers and develop plans and automation to aggressively and safely respond to new risks and vulnerabilities
- Able to design and architect operational solutions for managing applications and infrastructure with the specific goal of increasing the automation, repeatability, and consistency of operational tasks
- Able to partner and train infrastructure and operations teams; this includes the creation and/or enhancement of SOPs, knowledge articles, etc.
- Able to analyze and participate in periodic on-call duties to prevent, solve and automate the response to problems on mission critical services
- Must be able to read, write and speak English
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