Site Reliability Engineer - Remote

TITLE: Azure/ Site Reliability Engineer


Location: 100% Remote EST hours




Our Client is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with proven industry experience to join our Cloud Center of Excellence. Our teams are collaborative and forward-thinking.




What You'll Do:

• Serve as Liaison to the Architects and Technical leadership to a specific business units
  
• Consult and provide expertise on migration, architectural modernization, technical debt remediation, and future state definition for production, revenue-generating applications.
  
• Delivery of resilient application stacks via "Infrastructure as Code " and other DevOps practices.


• Ensure that business unit application stakeholders accurately understand and define the migration process and ideal future state
  
• Implement templates and guidelines as defined by the CCoE
  
• Evangelize best practices for cloud architecture around the key pillars of cloud application operations
  
• Facilitate conversation with Upper level leadership around status, road-blocks, and solutions for business unit-specific cloud migrations
  
• Consult and implement on future state cloud application monitoring using Splunk and Datadog


• Perform knowledge transfer for application development and support teams
  
• Diagnosis and resolution of complex system and application issues.
  
• Working with diverse technical and non-technical teams, including Development, QA, IT Operations, Customer Operations and Project Management teams.
  
• Establish container strategy and best practices using Kubernetes
  
• Some hands-on tasks involving Infrastructure-as-Code, Cloud Application Containers, and Azure
  
• Write and maintain systems / application documentation for technical and non-technical audiences.
  

Skills / Experience You Will Need:

• Configuration Management tools – e.g. Ansible , Puppet, Chef or equivalents.


• Professional experience of working within the public cloud – Azure, AWS or GCP.
  
• Hands-on experience of Linux and Windows server including support and troubleshooting.
  
• System and application monitoring – e.g. Prometheus, Grafana , Nagios etc.


• Professional Experience with common source control tools – e.g Git, SVN
  
• Cloud Architecture and system design to solve key business problems and facilitate team goals.
  
• Strong and enthusiastic technologist, able to demonstrate a broad technical knowledge
  
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
  
• Ability to act as a point of expertise, advise others in the team on best practice and impart knowledge
  

Desirable Skills


• Use of orchestration tools such as Terraform , Ansible or CloudFormation

• Experience migrating application from on-premises to public cloud.
• Experience with Blue-Green deployment methodologies.
• Continuous Integration/Delivery tools - e.g Gitlab or Jenkins.
• Experience working with containerized workloads such as Docker.
• Experience with Log Management tools e.g – Elastic Stack, Graylog or Splunk
• Experience working with an enterprise RDBMS such as MySQL and/or Microsoft SQL Server.
• Knowledge of change control and associated procedures.
• Use of Secret Management services e.g - Hashicorp Vault
• Experience with any high-level programming language.

Qualifications


• BSc Engineering/Computer Science or relevant experience.

• Proven background working in a technical, IT related position.
• Desirable – AWS / Azure Certifications
  

About Infinity Consulting Solutions



At Infinity Consulting Solutions our mission is to cultivate successful long-term relationships with candidates and clients matching the right candidate with the right client. We believe technology cannot replace the real personal relationships we cultivate. We reject the notion that technology alone is the answer to staffing which is why we are successful partnerships rely on collaboration NOT automation. ICS has been providing flexible staffing solutions for over 20 years in Information Technology, Compliance, Accounting / Finance, and Corporate Support. Our staffing solutions include Contract, Temp to Perm, and Permanent Placement.

ICS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.