Job Details

Site Reliability Engineer

HERNDON-22095, VA, US
07/19/2018

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Required Skills

    shell scripting
Company

Infinity Consulting Solutions, Inc

Experience

5 to 7 Year(s)

Job Description

DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a very well-rounded, experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join a team of SREs dedicated to support and improvement of our back end and firewall platforms.

This person must dive deep into operational issues, from systems, automation, and process perspectives.

The candidate will understand the challenges around integrating disparate infrastructures into a new facility and new processes and procedures.

Responsibilities

Perform deep dives into both systemic and latent reliability issues; partner with software and systems engineers across the organization to produce and roll out fixes

Troubleshoot issues across the entire stack: hardware, software, application and network

Drive standardization efforts across multiple disciplines and services in conjunction with embedded SREs throughout the organization

Identify and drive opportunities to improve automation for the company; scope and create automation for deployment, management and visibility of our services

Represent the SRE organization in design reviews and operational readiness exercises for new and existing services

Work with software engineers and development SREs to improve upon deployment processes.

REQUIREMENTS

Sound fundamentals in operating systems, networking, and distributed systems

Strong familiarity with Linux systems administration, management, best practices, and performance tuning

Familiarity with OS container technology: Docker, LXC, namespaces/cgroups

Strong understanding of Ethernet, VLAN, IPv4/IPv6, ARP, DHCP, DNS, and TCP

Strong understanding of routing protocols such as BGP, ISIS, OSPF

Familiarity with the operations of carrier-grade backbone networking

Familiarity with distributed system problems: leader election, consensus, etc.

Solid understanding of systems and application design, including the operational trade-offs of various designs

Expert level understanding with at least one public or private cloud technology such as
Amazon AWS, Azure, OpenStack, etc.

Practical knowledge of various aspects of service design, including messaging protocols & behavior, caching strategies and software design practices

Practical, intermediate knowledge of shell scripting and python

Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, web application security, and experience supporting multi-tier web application architectures

Minimum 5 years of managing services in an internet scale Unix/Linux environment

Must work well with and be able to influence myriad personalities at all levels

Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently, must be able to work with multiple teams across multiple customers

Must be adaptable and able to focus on the simplest, most efficient & reliable solutions

Track record of successful practical problem solving, excellent written and interpersonal communication, and documentation skills

Curiosity and an interest in networking, systems software, and/or distributed systems

Experience as a systems administrator or operations engineer in a 24/7 production environment

Experience deploying code to and/or managing large-scale node deployments providing
software, platforms, or infrastructure as a service

Experience with Arista, Dell, Brocade, and Client networking gear.

Experience with Client, Dell/EMC, Super Micro server and storage gear.

Desirable Qualifications

Experience with configuration management tools such as CFEngine, Bcfg2, Puppet, Chef, or Ansible

Experience with Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Engine, or similar

Experience with distributed compute (e.g., Spark or Hadoop), storage (relational databases such as Postgres or MySQL, horizontally-scalable non-relational databases such as HBase, Riak, or Cassandra), and search infrastructure (such as ElasticSearch or Solr/Lucene)

Experience in horizontally scaling a production environment by an order of magnitude, ideally in a startup or other rapid-growth environment


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Candidate Requirements
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Bachelors

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Recruiter Details
Doug Klares
1350 Broadway, Suite 2205, NEW YORK-10018, NY, US
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