Description: Title: Senior Developer/SRE
Contract to hire
100% remote or Eden Prairie, MN
PROJECT: InfluxData deployment. The team is working on a new enterprise telemetry monitoring tool called Influx, replacing our current monitoring infrastructure. We are looking to go entirely with Open Source tools, and building our own tools.
IDEAL BACKGROUND: We are looking for people who have both a developer & sysadmin mindsetmeaning they can build tools and support them.
TOP REQUIREMENTS:
a. Able to read & update code, and utilize code management tools like GitHub - 5+ years experience
b. TSDB (Time Series Data Base) management 2+ years experience
c. Understanding of Data Visualization 2+ years experience
d. Write and maintain operational playbooks 5+ years experience
*** What experience will set candidates apart from one another? If they have Site Reliability Engineering backgrounds.
LOCATION: Will start working remotely. Can come onsite to a Client location once COVID-19 restrictions are lifted, but can remain remote if they'd like.
*** Cannot provide sponsorship upon conversion.
INTERVIEW PROCESS:
a. How many rounds? Two, three max.
b. Video vs. phone? - Either/or
c. How technical will the interviews be? First interview not technical, 2nd interview highly technical
Is this person a sole contributor or part of a team? Part of a team
If so, please describe the team? SRE - 7 employees
What are the top 5-10 responsibilities for this position? (Please be detailed as to what the candidate is expected to do or complete on a daily basis)
* Review and maintain Chef cookbooks
* Telemetry (Telegraf, Influx) operational maintenance
* Interpret Grafana operational dashboards to restore services from outages
* Deploy systems based on designs & architecture from others (private cloud-based)
* Develop small-scale software solutions from limited requirements
What software tools/skills are needed to perform these daily responsibilities?
* TSDB (Time Series Data Base) management
* Understanding of Data Visualization
* Able to read & update code
* Utilize code management tools like GitHub
* Write and maintain operational playbooks
What skills/attributes are a must have?
* Both Development & operational skills
* Self-starter - doesn't wait for work assignments
* General understanding of data visualization
* Experience with Application Performance Management tools
* Experience with message queuing
* Experience with containers
What skills/attributes are nice to have?
* Grafana experience
* TSDB (time series database) experience (Graphite, Prometheus, Influx)
* Experience with DataViz tools like Grafana, Tableau
* Experience with OpenShift and/or Kubernetes
What are the work hours? (ex. 9am-5pm, day/night shifts, rotating shifts, etc)
9-5 to start, though it could change to a swing shift (day starting between 11 am and 1 pm)
What type of interview process is preferred? (Face to face, phone, Skype, or a combination of the three)
Phone/webex