Consulting Site Reliability Engineer

Primary Responsibilities:

• Ensuring maturation of Analytics development processes over time through flexibility and automation

• Consulting and providing expertise on technical solution options, and contributing to decision-making discussions in areas such as serverless computing, containerized workloads, and big data

• Remaining up-to-date on internal and industry-wide best practices related to those solutions

• Evangelizing best practices for cloud architecture and the key pillars of cloud application operations

• Developing and ensuring delivery of resilient infrastructure designs using Infrastructure-as-Code

• Performing knowledge transfer for SRE, Application and Support team resources when needed

• Diagnosing and resolving potentially complex infrastructure, integration, and application issues

• Improving standardization and automation within maturing processes to enhance efficiency

• Performance testing and tuning to ensure production workloads are supported

• Monitoring and supporting critical business applications to ensure SLAs are met

• Understanding and implementing defensive, detective and corrective controls

• Assisting in the development and/or implementation of comprehensive information security procedures and practices to reduce attack surfaces and comply with best practices

• Augmenting project and systems documentation for technical and non-technical audiences

High-Value Professional Experience and Skills:

• Leadership/design of application and/or infrastructure migration projects from on-prem to cloud 

• Proven expert in partnering and leading technology resources in solving complex business needs 

• Cloud architecture design and implementation to solve key business needs and meet team goals 

• Experience with Azure Machine Learning 

• Experience with Databricks and Azure Data Factory

• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools (Prefer Terraform; Related: Ansible, Puppet, ARM templates)

• Automated CI/CD pipelines (Prefer GitHub Actions; Related: Jenkins, Argo CD)

• Containerized workloads (Prefer AKS & Helm; Related: EKS, other K8s distributions, Docker, JFrog)

• Serverless solutions (e.g. Logic Apps, Function Apps, Functions, WebJobs, AWS Lambda)

• Logging and monitoring tools (e.g., Fluentd, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics)

• Network Security (e.g. Azure Policy, Active Directory/RBAC, ACLs, NSG rules, private endpoints)

Other Desirable Professional Experience and Skills:

• Strong and enthusiastic technologist, able to demonstrate broad technical cloud knowledge

• Ability to act as a point of expertise, sharing knowledge and advising on best practices

• Strong budgeting/finance skills and experience with cost management

• Multi-component system integration and troubleshooting

• Performance analysis and tuning

• Secrets management (Prefer Hashicorp Vault; Related: Azure Key Vault, Secrets Manager)

• Kubernetes service meshes (Prefer Linkerd; Related: Istio, Traefik mesh)

• Coding/scripting (e.g., Linux/Bash/Sh, Windows/PowerShell/Batch, Python, Java)

• Event handling (e.g., Kafka, Rabbit MQ, Redis Streams, Event Hubs, Service Bus)

• Load balancing and service proxies (e.g., Nginx, Traefik, HAProxy, F5)

• Other products in use: Jira, Confluence, Azure Storage Explorer, MySQL Workbench, Maven

Basic Professional Experience and Skills:

• Knowledge of SDLC and change control, and associated procedures

• Common source code control tools and repositories (e.g., Git/GitHub/GitLab, VS Code, SVN)

• Ability to describe and discuss technical solutions with various audiences

Required Education and Length of Professional Experience:

• 10+ years professional experience, including demonstrable success in project leadership roles

• 5+ years professional experience in DevOps or SRE roles on a major cloud platform

• BSc+ in Engineering/Computer Science/IT, advanced degree preferred

• Industry certification for Cloud Developers/Architects (Prefer Azure; Related: AWS, GCP)