Role: US - Site Reliability Engineer III
Location: Chicago, IL (will consider CST remote candidates)
Duration: Long Term
Summary:
The main function of a Site Reliability Engineer is to streamline IT infrastructure management through the use of code, software products, and automation. The role helps minimize manual effort as much as possible and drives site reliability so that the business can run a host of new applications and services without straining the infrastructure.
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 analyzing 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.
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
· Describe how success will be measured during the candidate’s contract? What are some of the performance indicators you’ll be looking for once they are acclimated? (Meeting deadlines, quality of work, etc.):
· To be able to support DEVs, QAs and other SRE in a timely manner for all infrastructure needs.
· To be able to research solutions for infrastructure/network issues across tech stack/components/systems
· Documentation and diagrams for full visibility of work being done
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
Job posting overview/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 squad 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, Bachelors 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
· Describe how success will be measured during the candidate’s contract? What are some of the performance indicators you’ll be looking for once they are acclimated? (Meeting deadlines, quality of work, etc.):
· To be able to support DEVs, QAs and other SRE in a timely manner for all infrastructure needs.
· To be able to research solutions for infrastructure/network issues across tech stack/components/systems
· Documentation and diagrams for full visibility of work being done
