SRE Principal - Site Reliability Engineer Principal

Overview

At Jabil we strive to make ANYTHING POSSIBLE and EVERYTHING BETTER. We are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain solutions. With over 50 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions.

Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.

Jabil is a product solutions company providing comprehensive design, manufacturing, supply chain, and product management services. Operating from over 100 facilities in 30 countries, Jabil delivers innovative, integrated, and tailored solutions to customers across a broad range of industries and end-markets, such as automotive, consumer lifestyle and wearable tech, defense and aerospace, connected home and building, industrial and energy, enterprise and infrastructure, healthcare, mobility, packaging and printing.

• Jabil is seeking a Site Reliability Lead Engineer who will directly contribute to the transformative growth within our Intelligent Infrastructure division by applying unique and innovative approaches to solving problems within a large-scale software production environment.

• As the Site Reliability Lead Engineer, you will play a vital role in ensuring the quality and reliability of the test network infrastructure of the Intelligent Infrastructure’s factories on a global scale, contributing to the overall success of the manufacturing process and customer satisfaction.

• You will be responsible for contributing to the end-to-end architecture, definition, development, and production deployment of test network infrastructure spanning multiple customers and manufacturing regions.

• As the Site Reliability Lead Engineer, you will also be responsible for interfacing with internal engineering, manufacturing, quality, and IT teams and our end customers to ensure our test network infrastructure deliverables meet the rigorous standards of Jabil’s world-class manufacturing environments.

• Lead the design, implementation, and management of test infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Ansible.

• Planning test engineering Infrastructure and Network strategies for the Intelligent Infrastructure - GCTD organization.

• Ensuring global accurate and efficient governance policy deployment and adherence to test networks, security, and infrastructure areas.

• Seeking out and implementing continuous test network/Infrastructure improvement opportunities and optimized infrastructure performance.

• Assist with creating and managing infrastructure and test network budgets and NREs.

• Lead & oversee the implementation of newly deployed and purchased test network solutions.

• Ensure maximum availability of test network and network resources to users and production applications.

• Manages various test network resources in support of business processing requirements.

• Debug complex problems related to test network and business-critical applications. Drive post-incident analysis and root cause investigation implementing corrective action to prevent future occurrences.

• Involved in the evaluation and selection of test network infrastructure technology.

• Manages the architecture of test network infrastructure including, Wireless, BGP, OSPF, Firewalls, DHCP, Public DNS, SD-WAN, Cloud Service providers (OCI),DR strategies, Network capabilities, and functions.

• Accountable for operational excellence, ensuring all systems are reliable, accessible, secure, and meet established SLAs / OLAs for both internal and external customers.

• Overseeing appropriate vendor relationships related to associated technologies, services, and solutions needed to operate enterprise functions.

• Mentor and provide technical guidance to Jabil’s SRE team members.

• Reports to Management.

• Mentor junior team members.

• Demonstrated ability to lead complex reliability initiatives, break down strategy into actionable technical work, and effectively delegate to and mentor junior engineers while maintaining accountability for delivery.

• This position requires formal training and at least 10 years of experience in Network Engineering and administration in an enterprise / data center environment.

• Direct experience in administration of one of more of the following:

  • Large-scale monitoring platforms such as Zabbix

  • Source Control Management Software and CI/CD practices, preferably ADO.

  • Infrastructure as Code frameworks such as Ansible

  • Wireless, BGP, OSPF, Firewalls, DHCP, Public DNS, SD-WAN, Cloud Service providers (OCI)

  • VMware

  • HPE server and Net App server/storage technologies

  • BCDR

• Proficiency in scripting and programming languages, preferably Python, Bash, or Power Shell.

• Ability to establish…