Position: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Company: Forte Group
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent
Published: 2023-05-01T00:00:00+03:00

**Forte Group** is looking for a **Senior Site Reliability Engineer** that supports the reliability of the production environments of the highly-loaded critical business application that operates 24/7 for one of our key clients in the US.

**The Senior Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for ensuring our Client's SaaS products are fast, stable, and optimized for our customers.** Our SREs take on availability, performance, managing change, monitoring, and response and are guardians of non-functional requirements. 

You either have an infrastructure background with a programmatic, automated mindset or are someone that comes with a software engineering background with infrastructure experience. The SRE goal is to build automated systems that reduce or eliminate manual work to keep our products up and running and performing optimally. We are looking for someone who thrives on collaboration within the team and across other groups and can operate independently to deliver solutions. 

If it sounds like you, welcome to join us!

**Responsibilities:**
● Champion and implement a culture of SRE to maintain a high-quality platform infrastructure 
● Champion and implement application and infrastructure monitoring and alerting to prevent client-impacting issues by ensuring system availability, performance, and scalability to maintain SLOs and SLAs 
● Optimize application performance at scale 
● Automate everything, including system operational runbooks 
● Define and support continuous integration and deployment pipelines (CI/CD) aligned to branching and quality assurance strategies 
● Dive deep into technology and stay on the forefront of the latest tools, technologies, and strategies; help evaluate, prototype, and integrate them into work processes 
● Perform with broad independence and deliver on project milestones and tasks on schedule while communicating progress regularly 
● Build strong relationships with SRE team members and software engineering teams to hold each other accountable for quality expectations 
● Learn continuously and apply lessons learned 
● Evangelize best practices, eliminate bottlenecks, and improve the process 

**Requirements:**
● 4+ years experience creating automated deployments with tools such as **Azure DevOps Pipelines, Ansible, Jenkins** or other scripting languages to manage infrastructure, software build and deployment in a continuous integration (CI) environment
● 4+ years experience writing scripts in **PowerShell or Python/Bash** to automate system operations as runbooks for Windows and Linux environments.
● 4+ years experience implementing production performance, availability, and scalability monitoring and alerting best practices using a tool such as **New Relic, Dynatrace, DataDog or AppDynamics**
● 4+ years experience as a global admin of **Azure or AWS**
● 4+ years of experience supporting public client facing revenue generating systems
● Strong DevOps focus and experience building and deploying Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or similar technology
● Experience in C#.NET, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, React is a plus
● Experience planning, coordinating, developing and executing all stages of test scripts
● Experience securing Windows or Linux systems in 24x7 production environment
● Experience with containerization and managing Kubernetes clusters
● Experience with common networking, firewall and load balancing protocols
● Experience with **Harness** is a big plus

**Personal qualities:**
● Continuous learning and improvement mindset
● Persistent focus on delivery in a high-velocity and high-availability environment
● Ability to work under pressure with ‘can do’ attitude and solid sense for setting priorities
● Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with ability to deal with ambiguity and drive on solutions, positive approach for difficulties and imaginative problem solver
● Advanced/Fluent English

**We offer:**
● Experience working with colleagues locally and abroad
● Opportunities for self-realization working on challenging projects using new technologies and tools
● Friendly team and enjoyable working environment
● Social and corporate events
● Possibility for career development
● Participation in professional trainings, meetups
● Medical & family care programs
● Various sport activities coverage
● 18 days of paid vacation
● Fully paid by Forte 5 sick days during working year
● Internal English courses provided by Forte Teacher
● Comfortable and fully equipped workplace