1 Flexera Software Senior Site Reliability Engineer Job

Flexera saves customers billions of dollars in wasted technology spend. A pioneer in Hybrid ITAM and FinOps, Flexera provides award-winning, data-oriented SaaS solutions for technology value optimization (TVO), enabling IT, finance, procurement and cloud teams to gain deep insights into cost optimization, compliance and risks for each business service. Flexera One solutions are built on a set of definitive customer, supplier and industry data, powered by our Technology Intelligence Platform, that enables organizations to visualize their Enterprise Technology Blueprint in hybrid environments from on-premises to SaaS to containers to cloud.

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Flexera is looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join our SRE team. Were a fast-growing, category-leading organization with ambitious objectives and a positive, inclusive culture. Were looking for passionate professionals who want to grow their talents and achieve great things. If that sounds like you, we want to talk to you about joining our team.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be tasked with everything from helping with product design, to diagnosing issues, and writing automated scripts for mediating issues that occur in our production systems. You will be driven to build fault tolerant, scalable systems and automate away as much operational toil as you can. You align with the goals of the DevOps movement in improving collaboration between the development and operations disciplines.

We are seeking someone with expensive experience working on a SaaS/Cloud product with a microservices architecture.

Responsibilities

• Help to eliminate operational toil - seek to automate repetitive operations work
• Work with product development teams to ensure that our new features are able to meet SLAs
• Help mature the delivery process for teams; defining/managing automated deployment pipelines such as Jenkins pipelines, designing canary release deploys, building in automated fallbacks or optimizing the build chain, Infrastructure & pipeline as code, you help craft the appropriate solution for the product
• Optimize product service code to ensure that its secure, scalable and performant
• Optimize testing capabilities to increase the assurances we have with each release
• Improve the fault detection for our services
• Create dashboards which help communicate the metrics for a given product service
• Work with product owners and product engineering teams to perform capacity planning
• Work with product engineering teams to understand performance and behavior patterns
• Be part of an on-call rotation for alerts that require engineering expertise to diagnose
• Help carry out root cause analysis for incidents, and design solutions (both software and human processes) that will help to ensure the same problem doesnt happen in the same way again
• Contribute to platform security

Education and Experience

• Computer Science degree, or related industry experience managing a mission critical production system in AWS (or equivalent Azure/Google cloud) for at least 5 years

Critical Skills / Competencies

• Hands-on Kubernetes Experience: Proven track record of designing, deploying, and managing multiple Kubernetes clusters in AWS running on EKS.
• AWS Expertise: Deep knowledge of AWS services and their integration with Kubernetes as demonstrated by hands-on expertise from previous jobs.
• Problem-Solving: Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex Kubernetes issues.
• Communication Skills: Strong communication and teamwork skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams in various time zones around the world.
• Documentation: Ability to maintain clear and organized documentation for reference.
• Certifications: Relevant certifications in Kubernetes and AWS are a plus.
• Agile software delivery methodologies
• Experience designing scalable services
• Experience designing distributed, fault-tolerant systems
• A good understanding of SQL databases
• A positive attitude and willingness to learn
• Strong conflict resolution competence
• Detail oriented. The ideal candidate is one who naturally digs as deep as they need to understand the why

Bonus Skills

The following list of items are not pre-requisites for the role, but might give you a bit more of an idea about what you may expect to come across in your SRE role at Flexera:

• Python / Ruby / Golang / Java / C# / C / C++ / Bash experience
• Experience with Monitoring systems such as Zabbix, New Relic, ELK, Prometheus, Datadog
• Security background
• SQL, NOSQL and Graph databases
• Elasticsearch
• Relevant Certification e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure
• Experience of Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)

Working hours

• Bangalore based candidates would need to be available for 1.5 hours in the evening twice a week Monday - Thursday for meetings with US based staff.

March through October 8:30PM - 10:00PM IST

November through March 8:00PM - 9:30PM IST

• Candidates can flex their hours to cover after-hours activities.