Position: Senior/Principal SRE. Site Reliability Engineer
Company: Intellias
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-11-01T00:00:00+02:00

Client is a leading multi-brand technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare customers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. A Fortune 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Index, Client was founded in 1984 and employs approximately 10,000 coworkers.

The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) supports client’s engineering platforms and services to ensure operational stability and performance of one or more critical business services used by customers and employees. The SRE should engage the best engineering disciplines, combining tooling and systems to develop creative solutions to solve operations problems. The SRE prioritizes systems/applications reliability work using service level objectives (SLOs) to measure the performance of supported applications, cloud, system, or services based on service level indicators (SLIs), which measure the service level provided to customers.

The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) supports CDW’s monitoring platforms and services to ensure operational stability and performance of one or more critical business services used by CDW customers and employees. The SRE should engage the best engineering disciplines, combining tooling and systems to develop creative solutions to solve operations problems. The SRE prioritizes systems/applications reliability work using service level objectives (SLOs) to measure the performance of supported applications, cloud, system, or services based on service level indicators (SLIs), which measure the service level provided to customers. 

Key Areas of Responsibility:
Work with other members of their assigned value stream to ensure that in-scope applications/platforms are meeting performance and stability requirements, this includes managing major incidents to mitigation/resolution.
Improve monitoring capabilities to reduce outage frequency and duration.
Conduct post-incident reviews and seek for improving using right tooling and tech stack
Respond quickly to identify and resolve issues involving business applications.
Respond to voicemail, emails, and electronic tickets directed to the support team on a timely basis and follow-up on issues until confirmed resolution.
Provide outstanding customer service to all stakeholders and maintain open and collaborative communication.
Perform post-incident reviews of all major incidents and determine action items required to avoid similar issues/minimize downtime for future incidents
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 software and DevOps engineering to ensure that assigned applications/platforms have appropriate monitoring and metrics in place to appropriately measure performance and stability
Monitor and research communication messages.
Monitor, research, and respond to failed transactions.
Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives
Ensure that applications/platforms in the value stream are operationally ready for production, this includes annual review of all SOPs/knowledge articles
Optimize and participate in on-call rotations & investigations related to the platform's availability
Support Service Now incidents that include support for (and not limited to): production systems, application support, code build support, access requests, and general cloud support across resources, monitoring, and subscription requests.

Must have:
5 years of Site Reliability Engineering or related systems support experience.
3 years of experience creating pipelines in Azure DevOps, Terraform, and systems support experience.
3 years of experience in Azure stack including AKS, Azure Function Apps, Logic Apps, Web-apps, and Mobile apps.
Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or equivalent working experience
Direct experience scripting in two of the following languages: Terraform, Java/.Net, Ruby, Python, PowerShell, Bash
Direct experience with APM and infrastructure monitoring tools such as SCCM, Splunk, Dynatrace, and DataDog.
Direct experience in two of the following data management and monitoring tools: DataDog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, SquaredUp