Remote Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Description:

• We are expanding our team of motivated engineers with a proven track record of delivering a best-in-class DBaSS platform – ObjectRocket.
• You will have the opportunity to work with a strong team of engineers working on large-scale distributed enterprise systems.
• You will design, implement, and support complex architectural design of hardware, software, and networking systems.
• Lead the global SRE team to provide the highest level of reliability to our customers and platform.
• You will drive improvement through automation and best practices.
• This includes responding to, mitigating, investigating, and escalating incidents when they occur.
• You will be responsible for stepping above the day-to-day support, synthesizing patterns of problems and business needs to the engineering teams.
• You will ensure that your services operations over time are improving to enhance our business effectiveness.
• Key responsibilities include ensuring completeness of the technical infrastructure to support system performance, staying up to date with emerging technologies and trends, partnering with the application engineering team, continuous identification of problems in the technology stack, following Rackspace change management processes, participating in systems/code reviews and design sessions, contributing to and organizing a central store of knowledge, taking full ownership of the product life cycle, and participating in on-call rotation.

Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience is required.
• You must have 8+ years of information systems design, architecture, or development experience.
• Strong experience in one or more of the following programming languages: Perl, Python, or Bash is necessary.
• Strong experience in one or more of the following configuration management tools: Ansible, Chef, or Salt is required.
• You should have strong experience working with Unix/Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond, including system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols.
• Networking knowledge including TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, MAC addresses, IP packets, DNS, SDN, OSI layers, and load balancing is essential.
• Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems is required.
• Intermediate knowledge of operating systems is necessary.
• Familiarity with algorithms, data structures, and complexity analysis is expected.
• Intermediate experience designing complex SaaS applications for cloud reliability and scalability is required.
• Intermediate experience with cloud infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipeline design is necessary.
• Expertise in operational monitoring and management tools such as Sensu, Prometheus, and Grafana is required.
• Intermediate written and verbal communication skills, both highly technical and non-technical, are necessary.
• You must have the ability to work closely with non-technical stakeholders and executives.
• A systematic problem-solving approach coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive is essential.
• RHCE certification is preferred.
• Preferred qualifications include experience working with Object Storage systems at Petabyte scale, managing relational databases (e.g., MySQL), experience with non-relational databases (preferably Redis, Mongo), experience with cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure), and experience with Docker and container management systems (Swarm, Kubernetes, OpenShift).

Benefits:

• The anticipated starting pay range for Colorado is $143,700 - $210,760.
• The anticipated starting pay range for Hawaii and New York (not including NYC) is $153,000 - $224,400.
• The anticipated starting pay range for California, New York City, and Washington is $167,400 - $245,520.
• Compensation for the role may include variable compensation in the form of bonuses, commissions, or other discretionary payments based on company and/or individual performance.
• Actual compensation is influenced by various factors including skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location.
• Additional information on benefits offered can be found on the company's benefits page.