Sr System Reliability Engineer (Automation)

Sr System Reliability Engineer (Automation)
Location: St Louis, MO (Hybrid, 2 days onsite/ Week)
Duration: Contract
Salary/Rate Range: $50-55/hr
Primary Skill: ITIL/ITSM, Linux, CI/CD pipeline, Jenkins, Shellscripting, Any Monitoring tool (Preferred Splunk/Dynatrace), Troubleshooting
Secondary Skill: REST API, Bitbucket, Maven, SQL
Preferubly looking for 5 to 7 years of experience candiate
The Role

• Plan, manage, and oversee all aspects of a Production Environment
• Define strategies for Application Performance Monitoring, Optimization in Prod environment
• Respond to Incidents and improvise platform based on feedback and measure the reduction of incidents over time.
• Support deployment of code into multiple lower environments. Supporting current processes with an emphasis on automating everything as soon as possible.
• Design, develop and standardize Monitoring and Alerting mechanism for the supported applications.
• Take a holistic approach to problem solving, by connecting the dots during a production event through the various technology stack that makes up the platform, to optimize meantime to recover.
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services-from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement.
• Analyse ITSM activities of the platform and provide feedback loop to development teams on operational gaps or resiliency concerns.
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Support the application CI/CD pipeline for promoting software into higher environments through validation and operational gating, and lead in DevOps automation and best practices.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolving systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Work with a global team spread across tech hubs in multiple geographies and time zones.
• Ability to share knowledge and explain processes and procedures to others.
• Able to perform on-call duties on a rotational basis.
• Occasional off hours work required.

Requirements
Skills -
Must Have

• Linux
• Shell Scripting
• ITIL / ITSM
• SQL - Good to have
• Application Troubleshooting - Basic
• Any Monitoring tool (Preferred Splunk/Dynatrace)
• Jenkins - CI/CD
• Groovy Scripting/Yaml
• Git basic/bit bucket
• Ansible/Chef - Basic

Good To Have

• Even Framework architecture