Remote Site Reliability Engineer

Description:

• Suzy is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of software systems and infrastructure.
• The role involves bridging the gap between software development and operations by applying engineering practices to IT operations.
• Responsibilities include using automation and monitoring tools to maintain system health and improve the availability and uptime of services.
• The engineer will identify and resolve incidents and implement solutions to prevent future issues.
• Additional focus areas include optimizing system performance, capacity planning, and creating systems that handle operational workloads efficiently.
• SREs will monitor systems to ensure they are running smoothly and intervene when issues arise.
• They will develop and maintain automation tools and processes to reduce manual work and improve system efficiency.
• Managing infrastructure, including servers, networks, databases, and storage systems, is a key responsibility.
• Incident management involves responding to and resolving system outages or performance issues.
• SREs will analyze system usage patterns and develop capacity plans to handle expected traffic and usage.
• Continuous improvement of system reliability, scalability, and performance is essential, including analyzing data to identify areas for improvement.
• Collaboration with development teams, operations teams, and other stakeholders is necessary to ensure systems meet business needs.

Requirements:

• Candidates should have an understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, including replication, scaling, and backup strategies.
• Knowledge of designing and managing virtual networks, subnets, and network security groups is required.
• Experience in configuring and managing load balancing and traffic routing is preferred.
• Expertise in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for provisioning resources, with Bicep/ARM being a plus, is necessary.
• Candidates must be able to manage and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes.
• Experience in monitoring the performance, availability, and health of applications and infrastructure is essential.
• Candidates should be able to collect and analyze log data from various resources for troubleshooting and insights.
• Familiarity with Prometheus and Grafana for enhanced monitoring, alerting, and observability is required.
• Understanding of secret management, key encryption, and certificate management is necessary.
• Candidates should understand cloud infrastructure and application performance, including optimizing SQL queries, storage, and compute resources.
• Experience in backup strategies and disaster recovery solutions is required.
• The ability to diagnose incidents and identify root causes for system failures or performance degradation is essential.
• Candidates must be able to respond to critical incidents and participate in on-call rotations to ensure system availability.
• Automating resource management and day-to-day tasks using scripting languages like Python, PowerShell, and Azure CLI is necessary.
• Writing infrastructure-as-code to deploy and manage resources consistently and reliably is required.
• Expertise in managing containers and container orchestration with Kubernetes is essential.
• Required skills include understanding of most Azure resources and related services, core AWS resources, Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code using ARM Templates and Bicep, Grafana, Elasticsearch, C# .Net, Python, Networking, DevOps/Github, Azure CLI, SQL, Mongo, Bicep, and Bash/Shell Scripting.

Benefits:

• Suzy offers generous health, dental, and vision benefits, and the 401K plan vests immediately.
• Employees enjoy a friendly, fun, and collaborative work environment with frequent exposure to executives.
• The opportunity to make an immediate impact as part of a fast-growing company is available.
• The target base salary for this role is between $110,500 and $130,000.