Site Reliability Engineer Principal

Overview

Remote
On Site
Full Time

Skills

Thread
Network
Technical Drafting
Capacity Management
Failover
MEAN Stack
Testing
Critical Thinking
Computer Science
Information Systems
Information Technology
Cloud Computing
Microsoft Azure
Amazon Web Services
Google Cloud
Google Cloud Platform
Scripting
Virtualization
Docker
Kubernetes
Service Level
Incident Management
Root Cause Analysis
Continuous Improvement
Software Development
DevOps
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Integration and Development
Performance Monitoring
User Experience
Debugging
Recruiting

Job Details

About FedEx Dataworks:

Born out of FedEx, a pioneer that ships nearly 20 million packages a day and manages endless threads of information, FedEx Dataworks is an organization rooted in connecting the physical and digital sides of our network to meet today's needs and address tomorrow's challenges.

We are creating opportunities for FedEx, our customers, and the world at large by:
  • Exploring and harnessing data to define and solve true problems
  • Removing barriers between data sets to create new avenues of insight
  • Building and iterating on solutions that generate value
  • Acting as a change agent to advance curiosity and performance

At FedEx Dataworks, we are making supply chains work smarter for everyone.

Company Name: FedEx Dataworks, Inc.

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer Principal

Location: 3630 Hacks Cross Road, Memphis, TN 38125 (100% Remote)

Job Description: Takes ownership and responsibility in the end-to-end resolution of complex problems and technical design gaps. Drives improvement initiatives that support the overarching global reliability of the company's systems, including capacity planning, failover strategies, performance improvements, reduction of Mean Time to Awareness/Resolve and postmortems. Provides technical solutions including specifying of requirements, functional decomposition, analysis, development and testing for current, new and major programs. Leverages critical thinking to improve best practices and provides enterprise- level recommendations that ensure reliability and resiliency. Advises and mentors junior engineers.

Qualifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent* in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related field plus 7 years of experience in the job offered or 7 years' equivalent work experience in information technology or engineering environment. The employer will alternatively accept a Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related field plus 5 years of experience in the job offered or 5 years of equivalent work experience in information technology or engineering environment, in lieu of a Bachelor's degree plus 5 years of experience. The position requires experience with: Cloud platforms, e.g. Azure, AWS or Google Cloud Platform; Programming and scripting; Infrastructure as code; Virtualization and containerization, e.g. Docker, Kubernetes; Monitoring, alerting and observability; Reliability and availability engineering, implementing service level agreements (SLAs), service level objectives (SLOs); Incident management, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, continuous improvement; Software development lifecycle, DevOps, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CICD). A track record of excellence in maintaining system availability of complex environments at scale. Expert knowledge in Application Performance Monitoring including end user experience measurement, run-time environment and Application Profiling. Ability to identify, debug and propose viable solutions to issues of scale and performance Proven experience with implementing end to end monitoring and alerting. A related advanced degree may offset the experience requirements.

Position can telecommute from home from any location in the U.S.

*Employer will accept one (1) year of directly related experience in lieu of one (1) year of education.

FedEx Dataworks is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Dataworks does not discriminate against qualified individuals with disabilities in regard to job application procedures, hiring, and other terms and conditions of employment. Further, Dataworks is prepared to make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee to enable the applicant or employee to be considered for the desired position, to perform the essential functions of the position in question, or to enjoy equal benefits and privileges of employment as are enjoyed by other similarly situated employees without disabilities, unless the accommodation will impose an undue hardship. If a reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact
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