Sr. Dev-ops Engineer

Responsibilities

• Ensure system reliability and availability – Monitor system issues, create strategies to detect issues, address those issues, design automated systems to troubleshoot, write and review post-mortems.
• Mitigate Operational risks – Collaborate with development teams and other stakeholders to identify potential risks, perform risk assessments, implement risk mitigation strategies, continuously monitor and review the effectiveness of risk strategies.
• Monitor system health.
• Minimize emergency response (MTTR).
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines, etc.
• Continuous improvement by collaborating with various teams.
• Automation of processes.

• 8+ years of experience on Dev Ops and Site Reliability Engineering.
• Hands-on with containerization and orchestration:
  Docker, Kubernetes/EKS.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code tools:
  Terraform, Ansible, or Cloud Formation.
• Experience setting up and managing services running on Kubernetes.
• In-depth understanding of SRE principals including monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, and automation.
• In-depth knowledge of monitoring and observability tools:
  Apache Splunk
• Knowledge of Linux operating system principles, networking fundamentals, and systems management
• Demonstrable fluency in at least one of the following languages:
  Java or Python
• Ability to identify and communicate technical and architectural problems, while working with partners and their team to iteratively find solutions.
• Building and managing CI/CD pipeline – gatekeeping production deployments, develop and implement GIT branching strategies, branch protection rules, network policies, scale up/scale down the load on AWS.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Solve performance issues and scalability issues in the system.

• Dev Ops and SRE
• AWS Kubernetes/EKS, Docker
• Terraform, Ansible, or Cloud Formation
• Apache Splunk, Apache Flink
• Programming/Scripting using Java or Python
• CI/CD
• Database – Vertica, Snowflake.

• Excellent Communication skills and collaboration skills
• Ability to propose and implement improvements in the system
• Ability to work with cross-functional stakeholders
• Adaptability and a willingness to learn new technologies and techniques.
• Proactive approach to issues, ability to provide prompt resolution/work around.