10471 - Manager, SRE

10471 – Manager, SRE

Purpose:

The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager will be working with the development & operations team, focusing on ensuring that connected car systems are working as expected and the underlying infrastructure and network is running smoothly. This role is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the DevOps team and combines a mix of project management, team management, and engineering duties. The DevOps team are subject-matter experts within Telematics domain and provide insight and engineering advice to development and product teams, with a goal to create a highly reliable and scalable software system that can run with minimum failure

Essential Functions:

• Act as primary point-of-contact (PoC) on all connected card infrastructure operations and projects
• Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and deployment requirements; be a sounding board and provide recommendations for engineering team around infrastructure design and deployment.
• They first set a goal to create a highly reliable and scalable software system that can run with minimum failure
• Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
• Be the driving force behind our automation and observability initiatives. Build tools and automation that eliminate repetitive tasks and prevent incident occurrence.
• Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of connected car infrastructure and systems
• Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization
• Provide project management, sprint planning, and road-mapping support to the DevOps team
• Activities include designing, developing, installing, and maintaining software solutions.
• Work with engineering teams to refine deployment and release processes.
• Collaborate with the engineering team on projects as the expert on reliability, performance, and efficiency.
• Manage on-call rotations across connected car applications, using a follow-the-sun model.
• Participate in 24x7 operational support and on-call rotation shifts.
• Ensure that all system design and procedures are documented and up to date.
• Monitor and stress test systems to collect metrics for tuning and capacity planning.
• Work to automate detection and resolution of recurring issues.
• Ensure safety, predictability, repeatability, and auditability of all build and deploy processes.
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives

Job requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or equivalent in the field of computers, information systems or related degree.
• 2+ experience as a manager or PM or in a Technical Leadership capacity, preferably in automobile industry within the Telematics domain.
• Programming experience with one or more high level languages, such as Python, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and JavaScript
• Proven track record of designing, building, optimizing, and maintaining infrastructure on a large scale.
• Experience with distributed systems in a production operations environment
• Expertise analyzing complex application, database, network, and OS issues across a distributed large scale customer facing system
• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively across multiple business and technical teams
• Demonstrated ability to deliver results on time with high quality
• Extensive experience leading customer facing systems in a high uptime 24/7 environment
• A depth and breadth of experience with server-side Java development, Oracle and distributed databases
• A well-developed understanding of the theory and principles of operation of the internet and packet data protocols.
• Exposure to Cloud, SaaS, and virtualization concepts and performance concerns.
• Working knowledge of operating system design, processes, and threading model.
• Knowledge of defining and monitoring system quality measures, including SLO and SLA.
• Built tooling to improve reliability of systems, automated remediation of issues, or improve scalability.
• Experience with different flavors of Linux, i.e., RedHat, Ubuntu, CentOS, etc.
• Hands-on experience collecting performance data, analyzing, troubleshooting, and tuning.
• Experience with the operations of application with high concurrency, scalability, or availability requirements.
• Experience leading high performing engineering teams.
• Experience with containers and container orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with MySQL, Elasticsearch, Couchbase, Mongo and Redis

Nice to have:

• Experience with stream-processing open-source frameworks/systems, i.e. Kafka, Spark, etc.
• Experience with distributed storage technologies like NFS, HDFS, S3 as well as dynamic resource management frameworks (Mesos, Kubernetes, Yarn)

Salary Range - $112,830 to $173,756