Highly Skilled System Reliability Expert Wanted

Our organization is seeking an experienced System Reliability Specialist to play a pivotal role in our engineering team. As a key member, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining high-performance systems that are scalable and reliable.

This position is part of our DevOps philosophy, where every engineering team is accountable for the software they develop and deploy. The System Reliability Specialist will work closely with teams to ensure they have the necessary tools, best practices, and expertise to deliver software efficiently without compromising on reliability.

Our goal is to provide developers with the tools and resources needed to manage the entire software lifecycle independently. To achieve this, we are building an internal platform using cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes, Prometheus, Kotlin, and others. This platform is crucial to our engineering efforts and enables us to deliver better, faster, and more reliable solutions for our customers.

The responsibilities of the System Reliability Specialist include:

• Designing, building, hardening, and maintaining critical components of our internal platform (from CI/CD to developer tools aimed at increasing R&D productivity)
• Assisting in migrating to industry-leading CICD tools like GitHub Actions
• Automating safe deployment practices using industry-leading tools like GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, Helm Charts, etc.
• Automating infrastructure provisioning and other engineering processes by working on automations built on top of an engineering platform written in GitHub Actions
• Counseling and up-skilling other engineering team members
• Solving complex technical problems and seeing immediate impact of your work and value created for other engineers
• Automating every aspect of our infrastructure to minimize human intervention as much as possible
• Developing effective tooling, alerts, and response to identify and address reliability risks
• Driving and promoting protocols on production readiness and operational excellence
• Partnering with product engineering teams to debug production outages and carry out action items to improve reliability of those systems
• Advocating for automated testing, continuous integration and delivery, feature toggles, and progressive rollouts
• Planning for growth of our infrastructure

The ideal candidate for this position should possess:

• A minimum of 5-8 years of experience in system reliability engineering
• Thorough understanding of large-scale complex systems from a reliability perspective
• Ability to design, implement, and maintain CI/CD processes and tools
• Passion for producing clean, standards-compliant, secure code
• Bringing a developer mindset and applying it to infrastructure
• Familiarity with Linux/Unix systems
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and Ansible
• Experience building software with a programming language such as Java, Kotlin, Scala, or any other JVM-based languages
• Experience writing scripts for automating the execution of certain tasks with a programming language like Ruby, Python, Bash, or any other scripting language
• Experience with at least one relational and non-relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch)
• Ability to identify time-consuming and error-prone manual tasks and build/leverage tooling to automate them
• Ability to identify root causes of instability in a large-scale distributed system across stacks

Nice to haves:

• Experience with cloud-based solutions such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure
• Experience with CI/CD platforms (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab), Containers (Docker, Kubernetes), Artifact Management tools (e.g., Nexus, ECR)
• Experience with Go programming language