Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Linux

Daxkoposted about 2 months ago

Full-time • Senior

Birmingham, AL

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About the position

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer- Linux is a role for the motivated coder/hacker/engineer that wants to solve problems at the root cause, in an elegant and sustainable way. In this position, you will be an instrumental part of our TechOps team, which exists to build and support the foundational tools that our product teams use to build products our customers love and trust. We care deeply about our delivery pipeline being simple, reliable, consistent, and fast. You will be successful in this role if he/she has a deep love for automation, building scalable systems, embracing new technologies, and sharing with teammates.

Responsibilities

Support all Daxko software offerings and integrated third party tools
Collaborate on cases escalated to TechOps Support and build long-term solutions for recurring cases with automatable solutions
Identify and resolve technical debt items that, if resolved, could make other engineers more efficient
Coordinate with agile development teams, DBAs, implementation, and support to ensure the production environment is healthy and stable
Identify repetitive tasks and automate them (spinning up new environments, deployments, etc)
Build, support, and administer all aspects of Daxko's continuous product delivery pipeline
Work with core components such as load balancers, firewalls, etc.
Make it painless for product teams to develop, test, deploy and monitor by providing clear, documented frameworks around our operational systems
Execute our disaster recovery plan; ensuring it is up-to-date and thoroughly tested
Mentor team members as a subject-matter expert
Monitor system activity 24x7 as part of an on-call rotation
Troubleshoot system jobs and services that fail and work with core development teams as needed to ensure operational stability and efficiency

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline OR equivalent experience
Five (5+) years of experience
Extensive experience with automation tools such as Terraform, Chef, or Ansible
Scripting experience with the following languages: Python, Ruby, Bash
Experience with modern git repo technologies (GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab)
Experience with CI/CD technologies (Jenkins, GitLab CI)
Problem-solving skills and attitude
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Advanced understanding of Linux, networking, and Internet principles
Fantastic attention to detail
Ability to prioritize and work well under pressure
Effective interpersonal skills (written and oral) and the ability to communicate effectively with a variety of staff levels
Strong understanding of internet technologies (DNS, SNMP, HTTP, TCP/IP, CDNs)
Strong understanding of serverless technologies (AWS Lambdas)
Experience with virtualization and cloud technologies (VMWare, AWS)

Nice-to-haves

Experience with Containers and Orchestration (Docker, K8s, Rancher, EKS, ECS)
Experience with Monitoring Technologies (Logicmonitor, Instana, NewRelic, Rapid7, CloudPassage, etc.)
Experience working tickets and managing priorities within issue tracking systems (Jira, etc.)
Experience with modern web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, AJAX, JQuery, etc.)
Experience developing or supporting C#, Java or Php applications
General knowledge of relational databases (MySQL, MSSQL preferred)
Experience supporting NoSQL and caching systems (Redis, mongoDB, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, etc.)
Understanding of Event driven architecture and related systems (Kafka, Kenesis, SNS, Redshift)