Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Job Responsibilities:

• Engage in and improve the lifecycle of services from conception to EOL, including system design consulting, and capacity planning

• Define and implement standards and best practices related to: System Architecture, Service delivery, metrics and the automation of operational tasks

• Support services, product & engineering teams by providing common tooling and frameworks to deliver increased availability and improved incident response.

• Improve system performance, application delivery and efficiency through automation, process refinement, postmortem reviews, and in-depth configuration analysis

• Collaborate closely with engineering professionals within the organization to deliver reliable services

• Increase operational efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of services by treating operational challenges as a software engineering problem (reduce toil)

• Guide junior team members and serve as a champion for Site Reliability Engineering

• Actively participate in incident response, including on-call responsibilities

•Partner with stakeholders to influence and help drive the best possible technical and business outcomes

Required Qualifications

• Engineering degree, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience

• Experience coding in higher-level languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript, C++, or Java)

• Knowledge of Cloud based applications & Containerization Technologies

• Demonstrated understanding of best practices in metric generation and collection, log aggregation pipelines, time-series databases, and distributed tracing

• Working experience with industry standards like Terraform, Ansible

• Demonstrable fundamentals in 2 of the following: Computer Science, Cloud architecture, Security, or Network Design fundamentals Demonstrable fundamentals in 2 of the following: Computer Science, Cloud architecture, Security, or Network Design fundamentals

Experience, Education, Certification, License and Training

• Must have at least 5 years of hands-on experience working in Engineering or Cloud

• Minimum 5 years' experience with public cloud platforms (e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure)

• Minimum 3 years' Experience in configuration and maintenance of applications and/or systems infrastructure for large scale customer facing company

• Experience with distributed system design and architecture