Job Details:

Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Duration: Long-Term Contract

Location: Alpharetta, GA (Hybrid)

Job Description:

• Client is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the team developing a global products for enterprise-wide integration.
• Candidate will be responsible for complex research, design, and software development assignments and will provide direct input to project plans and scheduling for software development.

Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent job experience required.
• 8 years of experience in monitoring infrastructure and application uptime and availability to ensure functional and performance objectives.
• 8 years of experience in languages such as Python, Ruby, Bash, Java, Go, Perl, JavaScript and/or node.js
• 8 years of experience developing and/or administering software in public cloud
• Demonstrable cross-functional knowledge with systems, storage, networking, security and databases
• System administration skills, including automation and orchestration of Linux/Windows using Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt Stack and/or containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Proficiency with continuous integration and continuous delivery tooling and practices
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• You have expertise designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• You take a system problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.
• You have experience managing Infrastructure as code via tools such as Terraform or Cloud Formation
• You are passionate for automation with a desire to eliminate toil whenever possible.
• You've built software or maintained systems in a highly secure, regulated or compliant industry.
• You thrive in and have experience and passion for working within a Dev Ops culture and as part of a team.

Responsibilities:

• Practices such as limiting time spent on operational work, postmortems, proactive identification, and prevention of potential outages
• As a lead engineer and consultant, engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services-from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement.
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews
• Drive maintenance of services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
• Influence and create new designs, architecture, standards and methods for large-scale systems
• You will engage in and improve the software development lifecycle - from inception and design, through development, deployment, operation and refinement
• You will influence and design infrastructure, architecture, standards and methods for large-scale systems
• You will support services prior to production via infrastructure design, software platform development, load testing, capacity planning and launch reviews
• You will maintain services during deployment and in production by measuring and monitoring key performance and service level indicators including availability, latency, and overall system health
• You will practice sustainable incident response as part of an on-call rotation and through postmortems