What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer position at VERISIGN?
This position is based in our Reston, VA office and offers a hybrid work schedule.
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help lead our team responsible for building, managing, maintaining and scaling operational infrastructure on which our mission-critical services are deployed or depend. We prize engineering professionals who are equipped with great technical skills and attitudes that motivate those around them. We seek individuals with a sense of purpose and for whom detail and craftsmanship are of their essence; individuals that are curious, demonstrate initiative, and love solving problems.
Responsibilities:
- Participate in technical designs for software solutions that combine Open-Source components, COTS (commercial off the shelf) components, and custom developed components
- Installation, configuration and maintenance of production, QA and development environments in which Verisign applications are deployed; environments include servers, operating systems, OpenStack, and automation tools
- Development of deployment automation tools including Ansible
- Development of enabling infrastructure using Terraform
- Coordination with other technical staff to implement systems and software
- Performance of occasional operations support functions, including problem isolation and resolution
- Documentation of processes, procedures, configurations, and deployment plans
- Provide critical technical leadership in the areas of operational process and change management, and mentor less experienced engineers
- Regularly reporting progress to management
- Participate in a 24x7 on call rotation
Our ideal candidate will have a unique blend of impeccable technical skills and a desire to work as part of a team to grow themselves and those around them. The team deploys engineers and operates enabling infrastructure in support of mission critical customer applications.
The candidate must have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 8 years of experience developing and operating mission-critical systems
- Excellent understanding of Linux configuration and administration
- Strong automation experience - Not just developing automation, but knowing why we automate and what to automate
- Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code
- Strong written and verbal communication skills – able to clearly and succinctly describe complex issues
- Familiarity with networking protocols and systems
Desired Skills, Experience, and Attributes:
- Experience with RedHat Identity Manager and/or FreeIPA
- Experience with ServiceNow
- Experience with a high-level scripting language such as Python
- Experience with RedHat Enterprise Linux and/or FreeBSD
- Experience with network troubleshooting using such tools as ping, traceroute and dig
- Deployment automation experience using tools such as Ansible
- Experience working with teams using Kanban and/or Scrum a plus
- Experience with Docker or Kubernetes in a production environment
- Experience with OpenStack in a production environment
- Experience administrating Unix systems in a large-scale environment
- Experience using Jenkins in a continuous delivery and integration environment
The pay range is $135,800 - $183,800.
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is noted above, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience. Verisign offers a discretionary bonus which is based on individual and company performance, and certain roles may be eligible for discretionary stock awards.
Salary : $135,800 - $183,800