Site Reliability Engineer - Omni Inclusive : Job Details

Some things to note on the types of skills and candidates we need:

• Senior person. No less than 4 years of experience.
• Has experience with virtualization
• Hands-on experience with VMware or a similar vendor or product/very beneficial
• How to manage a large fleet/virtual machines/what building blocks
• Must know the basics of networking
• Must have experience with automation
• Strength with Python as a scripting language
• Ansible, Chef, Terraform - having experience with 1 scripting language/automation tools
• Basic admin skills - mostly in the Windows world, but should have some Linux as well. They run a lot of things on Windows/Biz Tech - but they are shifting towards Linux - (70% Windows, 30% Linux)
• Remote access technology protocols are a plus

Job Description: Site Reliability Engineer Periodic updates and maintenance of Windows-based golden image for ESX & AWS.

• Patching of software, systems, appliances etc, through scripting or manual process
• Disaster recovery planning and testing of various products and distributed systems
• Deployment and maintenance of infrastructure and applications in AWS using IaC
• Automate the process of building VM images for ESX, AWS, OpenStack
• Adoption of tooling and best practices in the space of on-prem and public cloud infrastructure and application management
• Telemetry improvements (logging, monitoring, etc) for various systems and applications
• Performance tuning/optimization for systems and applications
• Escalated user support

Skills required

• Scripting (powershell, python)
• Automation tools such as Ansible, Chef, Terraform, Packer
• A virtualization platform such as ESXi or OpenStack
• AWS operations (EC2, S3, lambda, ELB)
• Windows administration and basic navigation skills with Linux
• Basic networking concepts and troubleshooting
• Basic knowledge of security concepts and protocols such as HTTPS, TLS, etc.
• General understanding of distributed systems
• Prior experience or working knowledge of remote access protocols such as RDP or Citrix will be a plus