Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Job Responsibilities

• Engage in and improve the lifecycle of services from conception to EOL, including system design consulting, and capacity planning.
• Define and implement standards and best practices related to System Architecture, Service delivery, metrics, and the automation of operational tasks.
• Support services, product & engineering teams by providing common tooling and frameworks to deliver increased availability and improved incident response.
• Improve system performance, application delivery and efficiency through automation, process refinement, postmortem reviews, and in-depth configuration analysis.
• Collaborate closely with engineering professionals within the organization to deliver reliable services.
• Increase operational efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of services by treating operational challenges as a software engineering problem (reduce toil).
• Guide junior team members and serve as a champion for Site Reliability Engineering.
• Actively participate in incident response, including on-call responsibilities.
• Partner with stakeholders to influence and help drive the best possible technical and business outcomes.

Required Qualifications

• Engineering degree, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience coding in higher-level languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript, C++, or Java).
• Knowledge of Cloud based applications & Containerization Technologies.
• Demonstrated understanding of best practices in metric generation and collection, log aggregation pipelines, time-series databases, and distributed tracing.
• Working experience with industry standards like Terraform, Ansible.
• Demonstrable fundamentals in two of the following: Computer Science, Cloud architecture, Security, or Network Design fundamentals.

Experience, Education, Certification, License and Training

• Must have at least five years of hands-on experience working in Engineering or Cloud.
• Minimum five years' experience with public cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure).
• Minimum three years' experience in configuration and maintenance of applications and/or systems infrastructure for large scale customer facing company.
• Experience with distributed system design and architecture