Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Horizontal Talent in Atlanta, Georgia

Job Description:

Our client is seeking a dynamic Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their team. This role is ideal for a candidate well-versed in modern reliability disciplines, capable of driving cross-team reliability initiatives. These initiatives include enhancing our client's reliability engineering practices through increased application resiliency, improved uptime/availability, and optimized application performance.

Key Responsibilities:

- Setting SLOs/SLIs/error budgets and managing reliability for infrastructure and applications

- Scripting in languages such as JavaScript, Nodejs, Python, Maven, Ansible, Bash, etc.

- Handling diverse systems with configuration management systems like Puppet, Chef, Ansible

- Leveraging automation for toil elimination

- Using tools like PagerDuty for managing incidents

- Monitoring and alerting systems like Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace

- Working with standard networking protocols and components

- Experience in Serverless Application Framework

- Managing containerized workloads and platforms such as Docker or Kubernetes

- Familiarity with distributed systems including Microservices

- Infrastructure automation tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform

- Understanding of CI/CD processes and deployment automation tools

- Debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving

- Effective communication, collaboration & negotiation skills

- Liaising with developers, operations staff, and third-party resources

- API integration projects

- Coaching/mentoring team members on reliability engineering aspects

Required Experience:

- Minimum 5+ years of experience in DevOps practices

- Hands-on experience with AWS Cloud and DevOps principles

- 2+ years of experience working on DevOps tools (GitLab CI, AWS-CodePipeline)

- 2+ years of experience in Scripting tools (Bash, Python etc.)

- 1+ years of experience in developing NodeJS or TypeScript applications

- 2+ years of experience in building and supporting applications in AWS

- 1+ year of experience in AWS CDK

Preferred Experience:

- Experience in Containerization technologies like Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker

- Experience in Application Resiliency evaluation using AWS FIS

- Experience using Litmus for Chaos Engineering methods

- Exposure to RedHat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA)

As a lead engineer with our client's team, you will be at the forefront of Cloud and Big Data technology. This role will support highly available, business-critical applications and serve as the escalation point for complex issues in both on-premise and AWS environments. We are seeking talented engineers, well versed in DevOps technologies, automation, infrastructure orchestration, configuration management, and continuous integration.