PW – Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Job0933

Summary

We are seeking a seasoned Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our dynamic team and play a pivotal role in driving our products and technology forward to accelerate business growth. This role is critical in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our infrastructure and applications. As a Senior SRE, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve complex business challenges, from strategic planning to hands-on execution, ensuring our systems are resilient, secure, and highly available.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain standards for reliability and resilience across infrastructure and application components to ensure consistent performance and uptime.
• Identify and optimize redundancies, monitoring practices, and alerting patterns to prevent incidents and improve system health.
• Design and build resilient, highly available distributed systems that support business-critical applications.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure automation tools for cloud environments, enabling scalable and repeatable deployments.
• Continuously monitor systems and services using advanced tools, provide rapid incident response, triage, and resolve system or client issues to minimize downtime.
• Oversee the health and performance of the application ecosystem, ensuring seamless integration and operation.
• Drive improvements in platform infrastructure and applications focusing on reliability, resiliency, performance, and quality.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation, knowledge articles, and runbooks to support operational excellence and team enablement.
• Design and implement SRE patterns and practices that comply with security guidelines and policies, ensuring data protection and system integrity.
• Work closely with development, operations, and security teams to align on goals, share knowledge, and deliver robust solutions.

Requirements

Must-Have Skills

• Datadog: Expertise in using Datadog for monitoring infrastructure and applications, setting up dashboards, alerts, and analyzing metrics to ensure system health and performance.
• Splunk: Proficient in leveraging Splunk for log aggregation, searching, and troubleshooting to quickly identify and resolve issues.
• PagerDuty & OpsGenie: Experience with incident management platforms like PagerDuty and OpsGenie to manage on-call rotations, alerting, and incident escalation effectively.
• Azure DevOps: Strong skills in Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipeline creation, automation, and managing source control repositories.
• Documentation: Ability to produce clear, detailed, and accessible documentation, runbooks, and knowledge base articles to support operational processes.
• Collaboration: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to work effectively across teams and departments.
• Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Kubernetes at Scale (AKS, EKS, GKE): Deep understanding and hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters at scale, particularly using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon EKS, or Google GKE.
• Kubectl and Helm: Proficiency with Kubernetes command-line tool (kubectl) and Helm for managing Kubernetes applications and deployments.
• CI/CD Expertise: Strong experience designing, implementing, and maintaining continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines.
• Azure DevOps & GitHub Actions: Skilled in using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions for automation, build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Source Control Management (SCM): Proficient with SCM tools such as Git, including branching strategies, pull requests, and code reviews.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Infrastructure as Code Tools (Terraform, Pulumi): Experience with IaC tools like Terraform or Pulumi to automate cloud infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Security Practices: Knowledge of security best practices including encryption at rest and in transit, using tools such as Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault, or Google KMS to safeguard sensitive data.
• Containerization: Experience deploying Java (Spring Boot) microservices in Docker container environments, ensuring efficient and consistent application delivery.
• Authentication/Authorization: Familiarity with authentication and authorization protocols such as OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, and SAML to secure applications and services.
• Scripting and Programming: Proficiency in scripting or programming languages such as Python, PowerShell, Java, or Node.js to automate tasks and develop custom solutions.
• Event-Driven Architectures: Understanding of event-driven and event sourcing patterns using platforms like Kafka, Azure EventHub, RabbitMQ, and architectural patterns such as CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation).