SRE Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities

Mindstix is looking for DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers. As a member of our Cloud Engineering team, you have an opportunity to work on modern cloud-native infrastructure using our bleeding-edge DevOps toolchain.

• Design and architect large-scale systems on leading cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

• Automate IT operations and the software supply chain with continuous integration, continuous delivery, infrastructure-as-code, and modern release engineering.

• Design for high availability, scalability, elasticity, and enterprise-grade security.

• Plan release strategies and steer production launches for mission-critical cloud applications.

• Manage production environments for high availability, performance, and latency. Deliver committed SLAs.

• Scale systems sustainably. Continually refine systems for reliability and security.

• Incident response, root cause analysis, remediation and fixes, and regression testing on live production systems.

• Lead cloud transformation strategy, cloud platform assessments, cloud migration initiatives, and cloud cost optimization for global brands.

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelors or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or allied streams.

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in building virtualized cloud infrastructure and deploying applications to cloud environments: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Cloud Foundations: Strong foundations in virtualization, infrastructure-as-code, containers, private, hybrid, and public cloud computing concepts.

• Programming Foundations: Strong hands-on experience with at least one programming or scripting language such as Python, GoLang, Java, JavaScript, Groovy, Bash, Powershell.

• OS Proficiency: Proficiency in system administration on Linux and Windows.

Toolchain Expertise:

• Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, AKS
• Helm, Spinnaker
• Terraform, CDK, AWS CloudFormation
• Jenkins, GitHub Actions
• AWS CLI, Azure CLI
• ELK Stack, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace
• Chef, Puppet, Ansible

• JIRA, Confluence, Slack

• CI/CD Pipelines: Hands-on experience in building Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines at enterprise scale. Experience deploying microservices and application workloads.

• Networking Competency: TCP/IP stack and protocols, software-defined networking (SDN), DNS, DHCP, Tunneling and VPN, Proxies and NAT, Load Balancers, Firewalls, Gateways, TLS.

• Security Competency: Strong foundations in identity management, authentication, authorization, key management, certificate management, SAML, and OAuth.

• Release management: Experience with release strategies such as Canary, Blue-Green, Rolling Updates.

• Scalability engineering: Experience in designing, deploying, and testing distributed applications in multi-cloud environments.

• HA and DR: Experience with high-availability architecture, disaster recovery strategies, multi-AZ and multi-region deployment models.

• Integration Experience: Experience with REST APIs, GraphQL, Enterprise Integration Patterns, API Management, Service Bus and Async-Messaging.

• Monitoring Experience: Experience in protocols and tools for observability - log aggregation, telemetry monitoring, application performance monitoring (APM), analytics, distributed tracing and alerting.

• Data-tier Expertise: Operationalizing storage services and managed databases: SQL, No SQL, Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Cloud Data Platforms, Object Storage Services.

• Experience with capacity planning, cost estimation, and cloud cost optimization.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills: Ability to engage with technical and non-technical team members.

• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills with an ability to rapidly learn new technologies and tools.

Who Fits Best?

• You are a passionate programmer with a flair for solving complex engineering problems.

• You enjoy working in a fast-paced creative environment.

• You thrive in a customer-centric environment with the ability to actively listen, to empathize, and to collaborate with globally distributed teams.

• You are a team player with a desire to mentor and inspire others to do their best.

• You are detail-oriented with an appreciation for craftsmanship in everything you do.

• You love to express ideas and to articulate well with strong written and verbal English communication skills.