Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Job Purpose

• Analysing, troubleshooting, and designing vital services, platforms, and infrastructure while always thinking about reliability, scalability, resilience, security, and performance.

Lead a team of SRE engineers

Role & responsibilities

• Help build a Site Reliability Engineering culture by sharing the best practices, approaches, documentation, and code with other engineering teams
• Apply automation and software to any tasks or parts of the system which are performed manually
• Able to troubleshoot complicated, cross platform issues handling OS, Networking, Database in a cloud-based SaaS environment and handle live production incidents
• Monitor application performance take steps to improve overall application performance and stability and follow through with implementation

Conduct system analysis, configuration management and develops improvements for system software performance, availability and reliability

• Design, write, ship, and motivate the creation of software and systems to increase observability, product reliability and organizational efficiency
• Maintain and monitoring deployment, orchestration, of the servers, docker containers, databases, and general backend infrastructure
• Develop Run Books/Standard Operating Procedure for recurring Production issues, also working on a permanent solve.

Perform Incident Analysis on a regular basis with the intention of preventing and finding a long term solve for Incidents.

Skills:

Experience in monitoring and analyzing infrastructure performance using standard performance monitoring tools

Demonstrable experience in Containerization-Docker and orchestration (Kubernetes)

Experience with Infrastructure As Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible)

Knowledge and proven hands-on experience in large-scale databases and distributed technologies, such as Kafka and Confluent Platform Kafka

Basic programming and scripting skills