Sr. site reliability engineer

About Delta Tech Hub:Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) is the U. S. global airline leader in safety, innovation, reliability and customer experience. Powered by our employees around the world, Delta has for a decade led the airline industry in operational excellence while maintaining our reputation for award-winning customer service. With our mission of connecting the people and cultures of the globe, Delta strives to foster understanding across a diverse world and serve as a force for social good. Delta has fast emerged as a customer-oriented, innovation-led, technology-driven business. The Delta Technology Hub will contribute directly to these objectives. It will sustain our long-term aspirations of delivering niche, IP-intensive, high-value, and innovative solutions. It supports various teams and functions across Delta and is an integral part of our transformation agenda, working seamlessly with a global team to create memorable experiences for customers.Key Responsibilities:Execute on the Incident, Change Management, Problem Management processesBuilding and supporting a reliable application suite for the environment in order to meet the development and maintenance requirements of systems/platforms.Provide consultation and direct technical support in life cycle planning, problem management, integration, and systems programming Ensure platform performance and availability meet enterprise objectives through monitoring, timely service restoration, and tuning Constantly working to improve and implement automation of applications tasksProviding technical support for systems/platforms according to application SLA's.Responsible for designing and developing resiliency in the application code, troubleshooting incidents, engaging with squads to address failure patterns, and participating in incident management.Strong Troubleshooting ability requiredLeads calls or contributes in a logical fashionFocus on resolving issues before they become incidentsIdentify and articulate severity of impacts using provided monitoring tools and escalate as neededAble to understand architecture and design of applications and identify or narrow focus for an incident based on symptomsPerform root cause analysis to quickly recover from service interruptions, and to prevent recurring problemsMonitor, manage, and tune platforms to ensure expected availability and performance levels are achievedIdentify gaps in monitoring or documentation and reaches out to appropriate teams to fill those gapsImplement changes to platforms with minimal impact to the business by following enterprise standards and proceduresDesign and document enterprise standards and proceduresMinimum Qualifications:Bachelor’s degree or industry certification in an applicable IT field, in addition to 3 years applicable experience in the design/administration/support of one or more platforms or Bachelor's degree in an IT field, in addition to two years applicable experience in the Design / administration / support of one or more platforms3+ years of experience as a Systems Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer3+ years of experience with ops automation using a scripting language such as Python or Ansible- Must Have with either one Site Reliability Engineering: Knowledge of the theories and methodologies of reliability engineering; ability to design, develop and support various tools, services and applications to maintain a reliable site Environment.Performance Measurement and Tuning: Knowledge of system performance, testing and programming; ability to monitor, measure, and optimize system performance and network communication.CI/CD- (Must Have) Pipeline: Knowledge of concepts, values and tools applied in building Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment (CD) pipeline; ability to design, build, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to achieve the automation of software delivery process.Kubernetes and AWS- MustDocker (Good to have)Software Release Management: Knowledge of strategies, practices and tools for managing versions and distribution of software products and enhancements; ability to evaluate and improve release management practices and toolsApplication Maintenance: Knowledge of production applications; ability to monitor application functions and resolve issues to maintain optimal conditions for system applications.Software Engineering: Knowledge of software engineering; ability to deliver new or enhanced software products.Agile Development: Knowledge of agile methodologies and the agile development lifecycle ability to utilize formal agile methodologies, disciplines, practices and techniques for the delivery of new and enhanced applications. Embraces diverse people, thinking and stylesPreferred Qualifications:Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field is preferredExperience and exposure to VMWare VDI implementations a huge plusExperience with Dynatrace APM and synthetic monitoringExperience with airline applications and infrastructure technology is a plus