Systems Reliability Engineer – Azure Cloud Expert at FairMoney

About the Role

• The systems reliability engineer (SRE) will apply aspects of software development skills to infrastructure and operations work.
• Since the main goal of this role is to create scalable and highly reliable systems, the SRE will spend up to half of its time doing operations-related activities such as supporting issues, writing documentation, and system management.
• The SRE should spend the rest of its time delivering development tasks such as new features, scaling, and automation.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on large/complex systems and platform opportunities.
• Build tooling to support the automation, management, and reliability of applicable systems.
• Build and support release pipelines for applicable systems.
• Work as an integrated part of a development/delivery team to include SRE practices as part of solution design.
• Manage the system lifecycle from design and implementation, to turn-down and decommissioning.
• Write documentation for peers and business partners supporting applicable systems.
• Work with business partners to define SLOs and SLIs and build robust monitoring solutions supporting agreed-upon metrics.
• Resolve P1 and P2 tickets using a proven systematic approach that focuses on returning safely returning to full system capability and creating plans to fix root-cause issues.
• Lead communications efforts regarding both system issues/activities as well as blameless post-mortems.
• Provide mentorship to junior team members.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
• Strong ability to optimally multitask and prioritize work, juggling daily support responsibilities with multiple product/project-driven activities.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Work independently and with a delivery team toward releasing features on agreed-upon timelines.
• Strong ability to support SQL database technologies including SQL Server, Azure SQL PaaS, and Azure SQL Managed Instances.
• Provide comprehensive administration of core platforms including backups, recovery, monitoring, maintenance, and upgrades.
• Scripting and automation experience with Infrastructure as Code languages such as Azure Resource Manager, AWS Cloud Formation, Ansible, or Terraform.
• Experience writing YAML code to build and manage Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Proficiency with Azure resource management and operations.
• Familiarity with Windows Server administration and operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related field and 5+ years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 4 years in an enterprise-level system engineering or reliability engineering role.
• Strong base knowledge of operating systems, networking basics, and security best-practices.
• Working knowledge of Agile delivery and DevOps principles.
• Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages (PowerShell, C#, TypeScript, or Java preferred).
• Technical certifications are a plus.

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Pension Plan
• Work From Home
• Training & Development

Deadline: Not specified.