Position: Site Reliability Engineer, Communication Solutions
Company: DataArt
Category: Sysadmin
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate

They specialize in services for sending voice and text messages, notifications, organizing online conferences, alerts about natural disasters, creating interactive voice menus and newsletters, sending messages on a schedule, etc.

We expected candidates to be ready work until 1 PM (EST) with the expectation that if there are any issues then there may be a need to work extended hours.

Responsibilities
- Proactive support and monitoring of system uptime, capacity planning, change management, and emergency response.
- Analyze and improve the availability, latency, performance, and efficiency of the client’s software stacks.
- Perform quantitative analysis to understand the events that disrupt functionality and to manage cross-team efforts to resolve those events.
- Build and manage systems through the use of infrastructure-as-code, configuration management tools, and best practices i.e. Terraform/Ansible/Puppet, Git workflows, etc.
- Leverage development skills to build custom tools, plugins, exporters, and applications for the purpose of managing infrastructure services and backend automation, monitoring, and analysis.
- Virtualization (vSphere) and Container (K8s) deployment and management.
- Log management & monitoring (ELK).
- Manage the monitoring and metrics systems (i.e. Nagios, Prometheus/Grafana, etc.), and develop custom plugins & exporters for these systems.
- Document important processes/procedures, and perform team training exercises as-needed.
- Work together with teams in other departments to find solutions and to drive RCA and reporting efforts.
- Stay up-to-date with new technologies and DevOps practices

Must have
- Deep experience with Linux
- Automate-it-first attitude
- Experience working with gitfow-based configuration management
- Experience with configuration management systems (Ansible & Terraform)
- Experience deploying microservice-based mission-critical applications in a SaaS environment
- Experience with cloud computing platforms (AWS)
- Experience with container management systems (Kubernetes)
- Deep Experience with version control & continuous integration tools (Gitlab)
- Excellent written communication, problem solving, and process management skills
- Desire to work in a fast paced, evolving, growing & dynamic environment
- Good knowledge of designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
- Understanding how to develop automation in multiple languages, such as Python, BASH, etc.
- Spoken English.

Would be a plus
- Some experience with a software development platform (C#, Python, Java)
- Experience designing/building CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, TeamCity, Artifactory
- Understanding of OOP concepts and the SDLC
- Experience supporting database platforms (PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB)
- Experience with Hashicorp tools (Vagrant, Terraform, Packer, Vault)
- Experience with APMs (New Relic, Splunk, Datadog)
- Experience with log & metric management (ELK, Prometheus)
- Experience working on teams practicing agile development, continuous integration and automated testing.

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