Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Vdart - San Jose, CA

Full-time - Senior

San Jose, CA

1,001-5,000 employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Lead Site Reliability Engineer will play a crucial role in maintaining and enhancing the reliability, performance, and availability of software systems. This position acts as a bridge between traditional IT operations and software development, applying a software engineering approach to system administration. The role requires extensive experience in coding, scripting, and cloud computing, particularly in automation and monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve the reliability, performance, and availability of software systems.
• Create and support automation scripts (shell/ansible/python) for infrastructure deployments, validations, and monitoring.
• Schedule monitoring scripts using cron and airflow.
• Monitor systems using tools including Dynatrace, Apica, and Grafana.
• Handle databases and ensure their performance and reliability.
• Build CI/CD pipelines for efficient software delivery.
• Manage incidents and perform problem management.

Requirements

• 14+ years of IT Infrastructure experience.
• Experience in Ansible and Python for automation.
• Extensive experience with Linux flavors like RHEL/CentOS OS, shells, filesystems, and utilities.
• Knowledge of distributed computing and experience with container orchestration frameworks, including Kubernetes.
• Experience with storage solutions, preferably ONTAP, including volume, aggregates, backups, and DR planning.
• Experience scheduling monitoring scripts using cron and airflow.
• Proficiency with monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Apica, and Grafana.
• Database knowledge, including SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines is preferred.
• Cloud platform knowledge, specifically AWS, is required.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with additional programming languages or tools related to SRE.
• Familiarity with other cloud platforms beyond AWS.

Benefits

• Contract position with potential for future opportunities.
• Access to a global network and industry expertise through VDart Group.