Senior SRE

Key Responsibilities:

• Execute on the Incident, Change Management, Problem Management processes
• Building and supporting a reliable application suite for the environment in order to meet the development and maintenance requirements of systems/platforms.
• Provide consultation and direct technical support in life cycle planning, problem management, integration, and systems programming
• Ensure platform performance and availability meet enterprise objectives through monitoring, timely service restoration, and tuning
• Constantly working to improve and implement automation of applications tasks
• Providing technical support for systems/platforms according to application SLA's.
• Responsible for designing and developing resiliency in the application code, troubleshooting incidents, engaging with squads to address failure patterns, and participating in incident management.
• Strong Troubleshooting ability required
• Leads calls or contributes in a logical fashion
• Focus on resolving issues before they become incidents
• Identify and articulate severity of impacts using provided monitoring tools and escalate as needed
• Able to understand architecture and design of applications and identify or narrow focus for an incident based on symptoms
• Perform root cause analysis to quickly recover from service interruptions, and to prevent recurring problems
• Monitor, manage, and tune platforms to ensure expected availability and performance levels are achieved
• Identify gaps in monitoring or documentation and reaches out to appropriate teams to fill those gaps
• Implement changes to platforms with minimal impact to the business by following enterprise standards and procedures
• Design and document enterprise standards and procedures

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or industry certification in an applicable IT field, in addition to 3 years applicable experience in the design/administration/support of one or more platforms; or
• Bachelor's degree in an IT field, in addition to two years applicable experience in the design/administration/support of one or more platforms;
• 3 or more years of experience as a Systems Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer
• 2 or more years of experience with ops automation using a scripting language such as Python or Ansible
• Site Reliability Engineering: Knowledge of the theories and methodologies of reliability engineering; ability to design, develop and support various tools, services and applications to maintain a reliable site Environment.
• Performance Measurement and Tuning: Knowledge of system performance, testing and programming; ability to monitor, measure, and optimize system performance and network communication.
• CI/CD Pipeline: Knowledge of concepts, values and tools applied in building Continuous Integration(CI), Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment(CD) pipeline; ability to design, build, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to achieve the automation of software delivery process.
• Software Release Management: Knowledge of strategies, practices and tools for managing versions and distribution of software products and enhancements; ability to evaluate and improve release management practices and tools
• Application Maintenance: Knowledge of production applications; ability to monitor application functions and resolve issues to maintain optimal conditions for system applications.
• Software Engineering: Knowledge of software engineering; ability to deliver new or enhanced software products.
• Agile Development: Knowledge of agile methodologies and the agile development lifecycle; ability to utilize formal agile methodologies, disciplines, practices and techniques for the delivery of new and enhanced applications.
• Embraces diverse people, thinking and styles
  

Behavioral Competencies:

• Ability to produce high quality results, work in a collaborative environment by embracing diverse perspectives and with a solution-based approach.
• Adapt communication clearly and concisely based on team dynamics and expresses thoughts & ideas effectively.
• Ability to engage effectively with peers and stakeholders to build trust and reliable working relationships.
• Ability to understand business processes, implement innovative solutions, guide juniors on continuous improvement by constantly updating oneself on current technology & trends.
• Inquisitive to understand customer and business expectations while creating value addition on technical solutions.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field is preferred
• Experience and exposure to VMWare VDI implementations a huge plus
• Experience with Dynatrace APM and synthetic monitoring
• Experience with airline applications and infrastructure technology is a plus

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