SRE Architect

SRE Architect

Location:

Bangalore/Hyderabad

Roles and Responsibilities:

Own the Infrastructure, APM and work with Developers and Systems engineers to Build, Release, Monitor and run the services reliability exceeding the agreed SLAs..

Write software to automate API-driven tasks at scale and contribute to the product codebase in Java, JS, React, Node, Go and Python

Write automation to reduce toil and eliminate manual tasks that are repeatable.

Work with Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform or another config management / orchestration suite, know where it's broken, work towards fixing them and explore new alternatives

Define and accelerate implementation of support processes, tools and best practices

Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system reliability

Handle cross team performance issues from identification of the cause, determining the areas of improvement and driving those actions to closure

Performance and maturity baselining of Systems, tools maturity & coverage, metrics, technology and engineering practices

Define, Measure and improve Reliability Metrics (SLO/SLI), Observability (Monitoring, Logging-Tracing solutions), Ops process (Incident, Problem Mgmt) and streamline automate release management. Build dashboards to provide visibility into performance of the applications

Create chaos in the production environment purposefully in a controlled manager to validate reliability of systems.

Mentor and coach other SREs in the organization

Provide written and verbal updates to executives and the stakeholders of the application in the organization.

Understand the current process, system setup and propose the improvements needed in the processes, and technology so that the application exceeds the desired Service Level Objective.

Strong believer of automation to bring in sustained continuous improvement by automating Toil, Runbooks, improving ability of the applications to auto heal leading to improved reliability

Must Have Skills:

Cloud Architect

SRE Observability architect - Further split into two - 1, DevOPs architect 2. Kubernetes 3. Purely Observabilty-e.g. New Relic/Datadog.

Split below in to Multiple roles

The successful candidate will have the following attributes/qualifications:

15+ years of experience in Development and Operations of applications/services in production that has uptime over 99.9%.

8+ years of experience as a SRE in handling applications that are web scale

Strong hands-on coding experience in one or more programming languages such as Python, Golang, Java, Bash, etc.

Good understanding of Observability (monitoring, logging, tracing, metrics), Chaos engineering concepts.

Proficiency in using Observability tools (example: New Relic, Datadog, etc) for monitoring, logging, tracing.

Expert level hands on knowledge in public cloud platform AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform. Professional level certificate on one of the public clouds is highly desirable.

Must have hands-on experience in using configuration management systems such as Ansible or SaltStack and infrastructure automation tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.

Should have used altering systems such as Pager Duty.

Should have implemented solutions around Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for services. Measurement should have been within a system and across systems in distributed systems

Should have supported Production Incidents (PIs) on critical applications of a company. Troubleshoot, debug, and diagnose operational issues and drive them to closure.

Understanding of software delivery life cycles, particularly Agile/Lean & DevOps

Proven experience in handling large scale and growing infrastructure across Data Centers and heterogeneous Cloud platforms

Experience as a service owner in managing large geographically diverse stakeholders

Ability to work with creative fast growing engineering team and motivate them to deliver their best work

History of driving innovation.

Good to Have Skills:

Familiarity with handling:

o Containerization Kubernetes, Docker, Rancher, etc

o Kafka, Yarn, ElasticSearch etc.

o Source code management and Implementation of Security best practices.

o Tech Stack - Python, Falcon, Elastic Search, MongoDB, AWS (SQS S3), Map Reduce.

Networking knowledge

Understanding of software delivery life cycles, particularly Agile/Lean & DevOps

Contribution to open source community

Qualification:

Master's or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering, or a related technical degree.