Site Reliability Engineer III

Job#: 3017343

Job Description:

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer III

Duration: 12 Months

Location: Chandler AZ / Charlotte NC / Jersey City NJ

Payrate: $65.00 - 70.24/hr

Role and Responsibilities:

Responsible for building, managing reliability and support of Internal Cloud Container Platform on-prem.

Monitor and troubleshoot Container platform (Openshift) Rancher and VKS (Vmware Kubernetes Service - TKG) environment performance issues, connectivity issues, security issues, etc.

Perform deep dives into systemic and latent reliability issues, Incident management, problem management.

Identifying, analyzing, and resolving infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.

Perform blameless RCA, partner with engineering and operation teams across the organization to roll out fixes.

Responsible for application onboarding and provide troubleshooting support through the lifecycle of the applications on the container platform. Identify and drive opportunities to improve automation to reduce TOIL and improve operational excellence.

Partner with risk, and compliance teams to bring visibility and implement right controls and remediation of vulnerabilities.

Ensure resiliency during implementation and identify/fix resiliency problems by collaborating with engineering teams.Be a key stakeholder in the design of cloud services and work with Architecture, engineering, product teams.

Participate in 24x7 on-call coverage follow the sun model.

BS /MS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving systems or equivalent practical experience.

Required Skill

Minimum 5+ years of hands-on experience supporting Kubernetes /Openshift Container platform.

Experience with Python, Ansible, Golang, and shell scripting Kubernetes /Openshift / Rancher /Terraform certifications are a plus

Strong experience in major services related to Compute, Storage, Network and Security Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus and Dynatrace, experience working with a complex IAM infrastructure, including Active Directory, and Ping Identity or other SSO solutions.

Advanced knowledge of Linux OS, DNS, DHCP, Kerberos and Windows Authentication

Experience with CI/CD tools git /Jenkins, GitOps model

Excellent understanding of Linux /Windows operating systems administration

Experience in Container security and vulnerability remediation.

Experience with OpenShift virtualization on VMware ESX, Container networking, VKS (TKG).

Systematic problem-solving approach, sense of ownership and drive

Ability to juggle competing priorities and adapt to changes in project scope.

Excellent interpersonal, organizational and communication (written, verbal, and presentation) skills are a must.

Proven ability to work independently with minimal supervision and as part of a team with direct responsibilities.

Experience in Openshift, CSP Kubernetes services such as VKS (TKG), Rancher.

Experience in Terraform, ArgoCD, Tekton, and K-native technologies.

Experience in agile deployment methodologies (GitOps).

Knowledge of various containers run time.

Familiarity with the operator deployment pattern.

Experience working in a highly available multidata center environment.

Experience working with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Splunk, Dynatrace, Sysdig, or similar tools.

Understanding cost management, inventory management.

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