Site Reliability Engineer - Platforms

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer IV to join a team responsible for building, managing and maintaining the Verisign Kubernetes platform on which our mission-critical services depend. We prize operations professionals who are equipped with great technical skills and a self-starting attitude. 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.

Our platform and our team

Our platform uses a mix of Open Source and commercial off-the-shelf software to deliver a Kubernetes platform, implementing network micro-segmentation, security standards and integrating additional requirements using a Kubernetes policy controller. We follow a mostly Kanban workflow, adhere to GitOps principles as much as possible and value fast iteration, secure-by-default solutions and customer-oriented mindset. The team has broad experience with Kubernetes, networking, operating an internal cloud and application development.

Job responsibilities:

• Build, operate, and maintain our on-prem Kubernetes platform clusters, container workloads, and all associated hardware
• Implement code and gitops-hosted configuration changes in accordance with Verisign change policies as well as industry standard best-practices
• Monitor and tune observability and alerting of platform
• Implement security best practices for Kubernetes, including RBAC, network policies, secrets management and compliance controls
• Troubleshoot platform and user problems
• Document problem-solving steps for our first-line support teams
• Ensure compliance with vulnerability management standards and information security standards
• Participate in a 24x7 on call rotation for tier 3 support

Desired Skills, Experience, and Attributes:

An ideal candidate will have a blend of technical skills, a desire to work as part of a team to grow themselves and those around them, and will have:

• Experience with Kubernetes (and related ecosystem) configuration and administration
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code with tooling such as Terraform
• Experience maintaining highly available services in both an on-prem and cloud-based production environment.
• Experience managing server hardware, firmware, out-of-band, and BIOS configurations
• Understanding of network protocols and security
• Experience operating Linux and Unix systems in a large-scale environment
• Familiarity with development tools such as Github, Jira
• Written and verbal communication skills – ability to clearly and succinctly describe complex issues
• Experience with a high-level language such as Python

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Prior experience developing or operating a Kubernetes platform in a production environment
• 8 years of relevant industry experience

This position is based in our Reston, VA office and offers a hybrid work schedule.

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.