Site Reliability Engineer III

Job Details:

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer III

Duration: Long-Term Contract

Location: Chicago, IL || Remote (Candidate from CST Zone only)

Job Description: 

Job Responsibilities:

• Applies software engineering practices to IT operations tasks to maintain a scalable and reliable production environment for running software services create a bridge between development and operations by applying a software engineering mindset to system administration topics.
• Writing and developing code to automate processes, such as analysing logs, testing production environments, and responding to any issues, so this engineer will be an expert in writing code.

Skills:

• Knowledge of software development and coding languages Python, Golang, Java, .NET, and Node.js. understanding data processing proficiency in configuration design
• IT Infrastructure and monitoring management systems
• Experience with tools like ELK, Grafana is preferred.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor''s degree in computer science, computer engineering, information technology, or relevant field.
• Proven background working in a technical, IT related position.
• 3-5+ years of experience

Summary

• Tell me about your background / team / department and how your team impacts the broader organization:
• We work in Trade Compliance and innovation space. Its a green field project, team divided into 2 squads.
• Describe the role and the key responsibilities of the role (Tell me about the project or impact that this person will have in this role):
• This position is for the ''primary'' SRE for one of the squads in a geographically spread out team. The position will also support the other squad if/when needed.
• Support all infrastructure needs from DEV to test to Production environment. Document the infrastructure work for visibility.
• Follow organization best practices for infrastructure patterns, security postures, integration of tool-chains.

What would you say are the top 3 must-have skills you''re looking for? (Measurable skills, technologies, etc.)

• Very strong SRE/DevOps skills and experience to be a self-starter, partner with the other SRE in the team, support DEV squads as required
• Strong with cloud infrastructure(IAC with Terraform) experience, blue-green deployments, handling NFRs such as scaling(horizontal, vertical), security postures/resiliency
• Through understanding of Azure cloud, supporting deployments of Java and Python based micro-services, different databases, experience with Azure Container app(ACA) along with K8/AKS is desired
• Experience with messaging systems, web-hooks, Azure functions
• Experience handling Azure OpenAI deployments is highly valued
• Research, learn and apply mindset, ability to multi-task

Describe the essential years of experience and/or education (or certification) requirements the candidates must have:

• 3-5years, if more that''s fine, Bachelor’s degree required.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure, GitHub pipelines.
• Good communication to describe problems and solutions
• Azure certification is valued, any MLOps, LLMOps experience highly valued