What are the responsibilities and job description for the Site Reliability Engineer position at Swift?
The Swift Group is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to fill a position overseeing a mission critical system. Candidate will work hand in hand with DevOpS engineers and Developers to complex Systems Software work risk free and continuously in a production environment. Our Site Reliability Engineer is a hybrid software developer and systems engineer responsible for monitoring, automating and improving reliability, performance and availability across the organization.
This position is located in Herndon, VA.
Required Qualifications :
- 12 years of relevant work experience.
- Experience in developing software using languages such as Java, Python, C or Ruby.
- Excellent programming skills to ensure the proper interpretation and implementation of production code deliveries.
- Experience with infrastructure orchestration and managing infrastructure as code (IaC) and container orchestration technologies. Associated tools : (CloudFormation, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker and Amazon ECS)
- Experience with DevOps / Platforms : Amazon Web Services (S3, RDS, EC2, ECS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, CloudFormation, etc.)
- Documented experience with open-source technology, software development and system engineering.
- Demonstrated experience utilizing DevOps tools, such as GitHub and Jenkins, to enable continuous integration and continuous delivery
- Identify, analyze, and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues
- Documented experience implementing monitoring and alerting best practices within a cloud native environment. Associated tools : (CloudWatch, Icinga)
- Comfortable managing release procedures for a production environment and optimizing release practices to a fully automated practice.
- Candidate must be able to collaborate and communicate asynchronously with a passion for solving complex problems.
- Regularly review existing systems and make recommendations for improvements and cost efficiencies.
- Develop and maintain cloud solutions in accordance with customer best practices and guidance.
- Demonstrated experience working with Agile Scrum based development team
- BA / BS Degree or five additional years' experience in lieu of a degree
- US Citizenship and an active TS / SCI with Polygraph security clearance required
The Swift Groups is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.
