What You'll Do

• Design High-Availability Systems - ensure that all of the systems that we deploy and depend on are configured to maintain full uptime. Planning out deployment strategies to ensure that uptime is maintained during upgrades and maintenance. Designing and building out an infrastructure-as-code project.
• Guiding Development Team with Best Practices - working with the Development team to ensure that the software being built will be practical to deploy and maintain.
• Maintaining System and Network Security - patch management, ensuring that dependencies are kept up to date. Staying informed about zero-day vulnerabilities and any risks that cannot be immediately patched and coming up with alternative methods to mitigate their risk.
• Logging, Metrics and Alerting - managing and organizing an on-call schedule through Pagerduty, connected to metrics and log events. On-call responsibilities will be shared.
• Build Engineering - managing build/deployment pipelines and ensuring best practices are followed in this.
• Stay up-to-date with industry best practices, tools, and technologies related to infra.
• Lead and mentor a team of SREs, providing guidance, coaching, and technical expertise in infra management.

What makes you a great fit:

• 5+ years of experience designing and maintaining application systems
• A friendly person first and a technologist second
• A deep understanding of operating systems and computer architecture experience with:
• Linux - at least 5 years
• GCP or AWS experience - at least 3 years
• Terraform - at least 2 years
• Kubernetes experience - at least 2 years
• Docker - at least 3 years
• Monitoring systems (Graphite/prometheus/grafana/statsd/DataDog…)
• Strong shell scripting ability
• Good programming abilities - to help build any glue components between services
• Professional Python dev experience will help
• Excellent communication and organizational skills is a must