Site Reliability Engineer

Every year, nearly 200 million travelers trust our client to get them where they're going. Take your career to new heights by working for this longstanding leader in air travel that services more worldwide destinations than any other airline.

This client is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to join their retail, flight ordering application team in Atlanta, GA. As an Engineer on this team, you will support their highly available applications and serve as a point of contact for their complex SRE issues that will span across on-prem and AWS environments. The ideal candidate will have previous experience in automation, infrastructure orchestration, configuration management, and continuous integration.

Contract Duration: 12 Months
Required Skills & Experience:

• 5+ years of DevOps and system engineering experience
• Experience working with AWS cloud environments and on-prem, Linux and Windows OS
• Working with Dynatrace and SumoLogic
• Experience automating, operationalize and improve the Development/QA using CI/CD tools (Gitlab, Github, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, Nexus)
• Experience developing for data streaming, deploying/monitoring high availability critical application components.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Manage and optimize data streaming and API components in OpenShift On-premise and AWS.
• Proactively review the application's APIs and processes to identify opportunities to optimize the response times for various application components.
• Automate various types of testing including data quality checks, automate delivery to production and automate deployment for production
• Develop integrations between the application in On premise and AWS and our third-party tools (ServiceNow, VersionOne, Sumo)
• Work with teams to create SLI/SLO's
• Actively monitor and lead troubleshooting of degraded performance and hard to define issues for the platform applications, develop the solution and document artifacts in the back log from root cause analysis.
• Evolve the cloud infrastructure ecosystem for our application suite by experimenting with emerging technologies and completing prototypes to understand benefit
• Design and develop CI/CD pipeline to deploy various application artifacts, including APIs and Data Process Jobs.
• Develop and configure the monitoring and alerting metrics so the support engineers can proactively and timely validate, troubleshoot and resolve the issues.
• Maintain data integrity and access control by using AWS security tools and services such as HSM, IAM, etc.
• Develop tools to monitor AWS billing for the services, generate cost related reports
• Work with enterprise security architects to design and implement data security tools, measures, data encryption, key management; design and develop solutions to address the security vulnerabilities discovered by internal security audit team, as well as by the vendors, security community, etc.; design and develop solutions for support team to regularly scan and review to fix security issues
• Regularly and proactively monitor and analyze the capacity and performance of the platform
• Develop backup strategy and implement the backup solution for critical data and application components for service restoration and disaster recovery purpose.
• Work with architecture, infrastructure, and application teams to provide input on continuous improvement on the design, performance and security enhancements.