Sr.Site Reliability Engg
Location: Reston, VA
Duration: 6 months plus
Sr.Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) at Client fill the mission-critical role of ensuring that our complex systems are healthy, monitored, automated, and designed to scale. You will use your background as an engineering generalist to work closely with our development teams from the early stages of design all the way through identifying and resolving production issues. The ideal candidate will be passionate about an operations role that involves deep knowledge of both the application and the product, and will also believe that automation is a key component to operating large-scale systems.
Our SRE team solve incredibly difficult problems using the best tools available for the job, and are rapidly extending the use of new technologies. They spend just as much of their time working on systems as they do writing code. You’ll be tasked with all manner of work from building operational tooling, automating operational workflows, performing architecture and design reviews, investigating system failures and complex outages, improving our monitoring infrastructure, defining service level objectives and agreements, and much more.
Responsibilities:
· Gain deep knowledge of our complex applications.
· Serve as a primary point responsible for the overall health, performance, and capacity of one or more of our technology products.
· Familiar with design principles of monitoring and alerting systems.
· Designing, implementing, and maintaining robust monitoring and alerting to improve performance and reliability.
· Experience with automation, configuration management, and developing infrastructure as code.
· Use engineering best practices — deliver high-quality production code, utilize automated testing, and build reusable components
· Develop tools to improve our ability to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor custom applications in a large-scale Windows and Linux environment.
· Work closely with development teams to ensure that platforms are designed with "operability" in mind.
· Function well in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing environment.
· Participating in the operations on-call rotation, triaging and addressing production issues
Qualifications:
· B.S. or higher in Computer Science or other technical discipline, or related practical experience.
· Programming skills (Java & Shell Script | Python, Ruby, Perl or C).
· 5 or more years of experience in Unix/ Linux large-scale operations role.
· Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
· Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.
· Experience with one or more orchestration, deployment tools Terraform, Ansible.
· Familiarity with Git or other source control systems.
· Experience using tools to create and manage CI (continuous integration) and CD (continuous delivery) pipelines.
· Shell or Python experience, specifically for systems automation.
· Good exp in performance Eng. tools like - Selenium, JMeter & Load runner etc.
· Working knowledge of the TCP/IP stack, internet routing and load balancing.
· Experience with monitoring alerting using technologies like New Relic, SiteScope, Netcool, Dynatrace, Extrahop, Moogsoft, Prometheus, Sensu, Nagios etc.
· Optional: Experience implementing, designing, deploying Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless (Function or Lambda’s).
· Strong interpersonal communication skills (including listening, speaking, and writing) and ability to work well in a diverse, team-focused environment with other SREs, Engineers, Product Managers, etc.
· Creative thinker and strong problem solver with meticulous attention to detail
· Highly organized, creative, motivated, and passionate about achieving results
· Strong experience with AWS (design, SDKs, best practices) – good to have
· AWS certifications – good to have.
Job Type: Contract
Salary: $80.00 to $90.00 /hour
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