Our client, a leading financial company, is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer on a contract basis
Job ID #: 80531
Work Location: Fully Remote
Summary:
Basic Purpose:
- Responsible for design, implementation and operational support of the technical infrastructure for strategic client applications and services
- Designs technical solutions and automated operational processes for the next generation client platforms for automation, availability, performance, scale and cost.
- Ensure the continuous health and reliability of the technical infrastructure, and the applications/services it supports, through Service Level Objectives (SLOs), metrics/Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and continuous operational process improvements.
Job Responsibilities:
- Manage and maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and AIX servers across multiple data centers.
- Develop and automate scripts for OS in-place upgrades on RHEL servers.
- Create and execute scripts to test and validate in-place upgrades for RHEL servers.
- Author comprehensive documentation and train team members on upgrade procedures.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and provide support for end-of-life projects.
- Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AIX servers across multi data centers.
- Automate and create the scripts for OS in-place upgrade for RHEL servers.
- Create scripts to test and validate the in-place upgrade for RHEL servers.
- Create documentation and train the rest of team in performing upgrades.
- Collaborate with various teams in requirement gathering and support for the end of life projects.
- Works within and across teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack of development tools and technologies.
- Ensures technical & security best practices along with client standards are adhered to in the design of technical infrastructure
- Participates in technical design sessions and works closely with multiple teams, including application development teams, infrastructure teams, vendors, and clients, if needed, to review the infrastructure designs for new projects.
- Delivers high quality technical infrastructure, on-time, following client processes.
- Automates the implementation and operational support of the infrastructure.
- Participates in technical implementation to ensure the quality of the infrastructure, automation and the overall productivity of the SRE (Service Reliability Engineering) team.
- Troubleshoots production issues affecting client services as needed, taking appropriate corrective actions.
- Collaborates with peers and other technical teams, such as development teams, architecture, database teams, storage teams, server teams, security teams to prevent and shorten production incidents.
Skills/Competencies:
- 4-5+ years of experience with commercial service infrastructure at both a software and infrastructure level
- Functional skills – System Design and Architecture, DevOps / Deployment automation, Troubleshooting, Service Monitoring.
- Passionate teammate who understands and respects personal & cultural differences
- Ability to work under pressure and be highly adaptable
- Strong written and communications skills for collaboration with various teams and upper management
- Solid analytical skills, especially in area of translating business requirements into technical design – with a continuous focus on aligning technical roadmap with the immediate and long-term Business strategy
- Able to adapt and embrace change and support business strategy and vision.
- Knowledge of next-generation design patterns/architecture like micro-services, layered pattern, cloud.
- Strong aptitude for learning new skills and new technologies.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or in a related field.
- 4-5+ years of experience within a programming and application system environment, with solid experience and a working knowledge in the following technologies:
- OS: Expert in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, AIX
- Automation: Ansible
- Cloud: AWS
- Scripting: Perl, Shell Scripts, Python, Batch
- Pay Range: $70-76