Cloud Infrastructure Consultant

We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the operational efficiency, availability, and visibility of customer infrastructure.

This involves planning maintenance activity, designing documentation, and standard procedures.

The successful candidate will have experience working with Google and AWS Clouds, scripting and automation of administrative tasks using Python and Scala, and a solid understanding of microservices architecture and container technologies.

Key responsibilities include:

• Operate, maintain, and administer solutions contributing to customer infrastructure's operational efficiency, availability, and visibility.
• Planning maintenance activity, design documentation, and standard procedures.
• Provide Root Cause Analysis reports for outages/incidents (ITIL - Problem Management).
• Observe and provide feedback on the current state of the client's infrastructure, and identify opportunities to improve resiliency, reduce incident occurrence, and automate repetitive administrative and operational tasks.
• Contribute to, improve, and maintain team documentation about client systems and infrastructure, procedures, policies, and schedules.
• Gather and document information about client environments through audit activities, and analyze the information to identify opportunities for improvement and application of best practices.
• Work collaboratively with teammates to contribute to the continuous improvement of our working culture.
• Act as a technology leader for clients, as well as drive client discussions on technology road maps.
• Participate in an on-call rotation in an escalation capacity.

Required skills and qualifications include:

• Experience working with Google and AWS Clouds (including infrastructure as code deployment with Cloud Formation, Terraform, Opsworks, etc)
• Scripting and automation of administrative tasks using Python and Scala is a must
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture and container technologies (Kubernetes is a must, Docker, lxc, etc)
• Clear understanding of software development lifecycles and best practices from an infrastructure point of view (PRs, merge, rebase, etc)
• Understanding the end-to-end operations of a 'Business System' vs components.
• Comprehensive systems hardware and network troubleshooting experience
• Common Linux distribution platform installation, configuration, performance tuning, and cloud migration.
• TCP/IP networking, NIC bonding, and network services configuration (DNS, NTP, DHCP, SMTP, etc)
• Operation and administration of virtual infrastructure, including experience with at least one hypervisor (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, etc.)
• Ability to describe IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, pros and cons of each, use cases for virtualization and cloud
• Administration of web servers and supporting technologies, including network load balancers
• Experience with the design, development, and deployment of Puppet
• System and application error investigation, troubleshooting of access/availability issues including deep multi-system root cause analysis
• Experience managing networking devices, such as switches and firewalls from a variety of vendors
• Solid understanding of DevOps tools, processes, and culture
• Ability to pick up new technologies quickly
• Ability to provide accurate work scheduling and task estimations for work delivery

We offer a competitive total rewards package that includes:

• Love your work/life balance: Flexibly work remotely from your home, there's no daily travel requirement to an office All you need is a stable internet connection.
• Love your coworkers: Collaborate with some of the best and brightest in the industry
• Love your development: Hone your skills or learn new ones with our substantial training allowance; participate in professional development days, attend training, become certified, whatever you like
• Love your workspace: We give you all the equipment you need to work from home including a laptop with your choice of OS, and an annual budget to personalize your work environment
• Love yourself: Our company cares about the health and well-being of our team. You will have an annual wellness budget to make yourself a priority (use it on gym memberships, massages, fitness and more). Additionally, you will receive a generous amount of paid vacation and sick days, as well as a day off to volunteer for your favorite charity.