Site Reliability Engineer

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer (Advanced Kubernetes)

Job Location: Ireland (Remote)

Job Type: Contract job opportunity

Job description:

Minimum Qualifications

• Advanced Kubernetes – Must have strong skills in Kubernetes at scale using one of GKE, AKS, EKS or RKE, experience with Kubectl and Helm.
• Containers: Experience deploying Java (Spring Boot) microservices in dockerized environments.
• Observability – Experience in setting up tools like Prom/Grafana, Datadog, AppDynamics, Splunk. to give actionable intel on a microservice environment including but not limited to synthetics, Application performance monitoring, logging and Alerting (PagerDuty/OpsGenie Integrations).
• Good CI/CD expertise. Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Artifactory, Azure container registry, Google container registry and other similar tooling.
• SCM - Working with tools like GitHub/Gitlab for source code management and well as experience with branching strategies like GitFlow and trunk based.
• Strong troubleshooting skills – Be able to move all the way down to code level to give development teams a head start on application issues. Effectively be able to contribute to root cause analysis exercises post problem resolution.
• Good Communication Skills - Active listening, verbal and non-verbal communication, Clarity and Concision, Confidence, Open-Mindedness, Respect.
• Good Documentation skills - Be able to effectively document any automation, technical efforts to ensure ease of adoptability of a solution.

Roles & responsibilities:

• Defining standard release automation patterns for infrastructure and application components.
• Defining standard CI/CD pipeline patterns that include a common set of DevOps and SecOps tools.
• Developing reports and metrics to validate existing and new pipelines use standard DevSecOps tools.
• Proactive optimization of redundancies, monitoring and alerting practices and patterns
• Developing resilient and highly available cloud patterns
• Controlling and executing the promotion of code through all environments
• Infrastructure as Code development for buildout cloud infrastructure
• Building and Releasing pipeline development
• Secrets and configuration management
• Monitoring systems and services, providing incident and emergency response to triage and resolve system or client issues
• Management of the application ecosystem improving platform infrastructure and applications with high reliability, resiliency, performance and quality
• Supporting documentation, knowledge articles, and runbooks
• Designing, building and implementing devops patterns that adhere to our client’s security guidelines and policies.

Good collaboration skills – Must be able to work effectively with Scrum/Dev teams with a push/pull (push back and prioritize work pulled in) philosophy in order to manage expectations and contribute to the stability and improvement of the platform.

*****We kindly request that only candidates with a valid Ireland visa apply, as we are currently unable to provide visa sponsorship. *****

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