Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Company: PFL.com
Location: Bozeman
Posted on: August 6, 2022

Job Description:

General Description: Responsible for the design, development, and documentation of our cloud infrastructure as well as our on-premise, self-hosted solutions. Will be an integral part of the software development team to ensure that solutions can be smoothly deployed and maintained with minimal manual effort.
Deliverables

• Tools and automation designed to ensure that solutions can be deployed to production and test environments with little to no manual intervention
• Environment maintenance and patching
• Documentation supporting maintenance and deployment best practices
  Activities
  • Monitor system alerts, uptime, and resource consumption
  • Collaborate with application development teams to identify opportunities for reliability improvements
  • Deploy regular patching and environment enhancements
  • Create dashboards and visualizations to help identify potential issues
  • Develop tools and automation to aid in environment deployment and maintenance
  • Document new and existing tools to ensure that all members of the technology staff can successfully utilize them
  • Create proposals for enhancing new and legacy systems with a focus on resource consumption and reliability
    Competencies
    • Deep understanding of application & web architecture
    • Familiarity with Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services hosting platforms
    • Experience working with Terraform, BitBucket, ArgoCD, GitOps, Teamcity and other related CICD tools
    • Experience supporting event-driven microservices that leverage Kafka or similar event sourcing technology
    • Experience building elastic systems capable of scaling horizontally
    • Proven history working with both relational and non-relational persistence, specifically Microsoft SQL and Mongo
    • Significant experience working with containers (docker, containerd) and container orchestration frameworks (Kubernetes, AKS)
    • Experience with scripting languages like Powershell or Bash
    • Familiarity with .NET/C#
    • Problem-solving, debugging, and performance tuning skills
    • Desire to work in a fast paced, collaborative development environment, supporting a growing company
    • Ability to prioritize workload and manage time effectively
    • Ability to break a problem/solution down and deliver continual incremental functionality that provides business value at each step
    • Ability to balance near-term practicality, driven by resource constraints and timelines, with ideal technology states
    • Familiarity in agile engineering best practices including sprinting and refinement processes, coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, test automation, continuous integration, and operations
    • Effective verbal and written communication skills with both technical and non-technical people
    • Preferred Experience supporting orchestration engines that leverage process automation languages like BPMN

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