Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work to understand any arising issues and overall application performance by enacting monitoring solutions.
• Conduct consistent and thorough analysis of current systems and work to reduce the quantity of existing problems, suggesting new solutions to help upgrade and refine such systems.
• Provide support across a broad range of areas, including monitoring, processes and tools, architecture, and root cause analysis.
• Develop and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to proactively detect and resolve issues.
• Automate routine tasks to improve system efficiency and reduce downtime.
• Troubleshoot and resolve incidents and outages.
• Develop and implement automation scripts and tools to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of system management tasks.
• Identifying areas for improvement and designing solutions that are scalable, reliable, and easy to maintain.
• Monitoring and acting on alerts to avoid production outages & incidents.
• Upkeeping of Run books for the Alerts

Requirements:

• 4-6 years of sysadmin experience in handling large-scale distributed system software deployments in the cloud or in an on-premises environment.
• Strong cloud management foundation.
• Unix shells, Python and Go programming proficiency.
• Experience in MySQL or PostgreSQL databases.
• Outstanding teammate who can collaborate and influence in a multifaceted environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills.
• Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to define standard operating procedures for supported platform features.
• Experience working with observability tools and practices (Prometheus, Grafana).
• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving incidents.
• Cloud experience in AWS (preferred), including hands-on experience with AWS-CLI.
• Hands-on experience in orchestration and containerisation, like Kubernetes and containers.
• Experience with CI/CD (i. e., Jenkins and ArgoCD).
• Solid Understanding of Networking (firewall, connectivity, routing, iptables, subnet configuration, etc. ).
• Experience with Linux OS and shell/Python scripting.
• Experience in programming with Python and Go.
• Experience with API gateways like Kong and Nginx-based systems.
• Experience with security best practices and technologies.
• BS degree in computer science or a related technical field involving coding, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4-6 years of sysadmin experience in handling large-scale distributed system software deployments in the cloud or in an on-premises environment.