Site Reliability Engineer

Job#: 2029318

Job Description:

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Columbus OH/Hybrid 3 days onsite

Contract Type: 6 month CTH

Pay Rate: $62-$68/hr

Responsibilities:

• Maintain the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health
• Ensure highly resilient, low latency, business continuity designs in multi regions application deployments
• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
• Monitor at the application level, troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, and recommend application configurations
• Optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large distributed software applications
• Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree
• 6+ years of related experience
• Ability to program (structured and OO) with Python or Java
• Strong with AWS network services (e.g., Route 53, CloudFront, Elastic Load Balancing)
• Experience with Cloud Formation
• A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks
• Solid understanding of the common challenges with migrations and modernization, the ability to choose the right path based on previous experience
• Experience of the full software development life cycle: from requirements gathering and functional specification authoring to development, testing, and delivery
• Expertise with application observability patterns and site reliability practices
• Extensive experience working with large distributed infrastructures
• Experience with AWS cloud platform - EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, and others
• Experience with DevOps tools - CloudFormation/Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, and others
• Hands-on experience with Linux/Windows, containers, databases, scripting

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to work independently and multitask within a collaborative work environment
• Willingness and aptitude for continuous improvement
• Do the right thing attitude while being a strong team player
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, focus on customer service
• Previous success in technical engineering
• Coding experience beyond simple scripts
• AWS Professional Certification
• Experience with Jenkins