Senior Site Reliability Engineer (US Federal)

About the position

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Responsibilities

• Be a key contributor in building a user-friendly, scalable, and reliable tools framework.
• Automate cluster buildouts, validation, patch deployment, and other operational tasks.
• Collaborate closely with other Environments teams to ensure seamless operations.
• Mentor and guide fellow team members, sharing your expertise and knowledge.
• Design and analyze large-scale distributed systems.
• Implement, design, and deploy solutions using Docker, Kubernetes, and Serverless technologies.
• Apply your expertise in AWS or Google Cloud Platform.

Requirements

• 3+ years experience in one or more of the following languages: Python, Ruby, GoLang, or Java.
• 3+ years experience with orchestration and deployment tools like CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, or Chef.
• Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• 3+ years experience implementing, designing, deploying: Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless (Lambda's).
• 3+ years experience with one or more: AWS or Google Cloud Platform.

Nice-to-haves

• A Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science/Software Engineering or a related field.
• High degree of comfort in Object-Oriented and Functional Programming.
• Strong background in Linux and Shell Scripting.
• Experience with CI tools like Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo, or Artifactory.
• Experience with SQL and MySQL databases.
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Loves solving the complexities of orchestrating deployments.
• Dislikes doing things twice and automates every step of the way.
• Strives to make things self-healing, elastic, automatic, repeatable, and well-tested.
• Is passionate about technology and enjoys exploring new tools and techniques to improve automation.

Benefits

• Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus.
• Annual refresh stock grants.