Lead Site Reliability Engineer

• 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)
• Actively participate in incident response, including on-call responsibilities
• Partner with stakeholders to influence and help drive the best possible technical and business outcomes

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)
• Demonstrated understanding of best practices in metric generation and collection, log aggregation pipelines, time-series databases, and distributed tracing
• Demonstrable fundamentals in 2 of the following: Computer Science, Cloud Architecture, Security, or Network Design fundamentals
• Working experience with industry standards like Terraform, Ansible
• 3+ years of hands-on experience working in Engineering or Cloud
• 3+ years of experience with public cloud platforms (e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Experience working with automation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with distributed system design and architecture
• Experience with containerization technologies
• Experience in configuration and maintenance of applications and/or systems infrastructure for large scale customer facing company
• Experience building and managing CI/CD Pipelines