Senior Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps)

Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps)
Location: India
Workplace Type: Remote 

Job Summary 

Porch is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer to help us build world class infrastructure in public cloud mainly GCP. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Sr. SRE), you will be responsible for maintaining and improving the reliability and performance of our company’s technology stack. You will work closely with development teams to design scalable and highly reliable software systems. Your role will involve identifying and resolving complex issues before they impact customers, implementing automation to streamline our operations, and advocating for best practices in reliability, scalability, and maintainability. Additionally, you will lead efforts to improve monitoring and alerting processes to ensure proactive response to potential issues. As a senior member of the team, you will mentor junior engineers, drive technical initiatives, and collaborate across departments to achieve our reliability goals. 

What You Will Do As A Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps)  

• Build infrastructure/systems that balance operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency and cost optimization.  
• Improve the observability of our systems to anticipate and address issues before they become critical, leveraging strategies like infrastructure as code, system operational and health metrics, CICD pipelines and infrastructure automation.  
• Contribute to DevOps roadmaps, helping balance priorities like modernizing past infrastructure, supporting new projects and deployments, and improving/hardening systems where it is needed most.  
• Support our initiatives for modernizing/centralizing our cloud footprint in partnership with business, analytics, software, InfoSec, and data science teams.  
• Design and enforce SDLC & Infosec & Compliance requirements. 
• Assist with root cause analysis/remediation for system incidents.  
• Provide support to engineering team in basic database operations (Postgres, SQL Server) in running SQL scripts, creating database objects and troubleshooting performance and connection issues.  
• Support migration and consolidation of infrastructure from Azure into GCP. 

What You Will Bring as A Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps)  

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software or System Engineering preferred or equivalent experience.   
• 8+ years of relevant experience. 
• Expertise with cloud-based systems and containerized infrastructure (Linux/OS fundamentals, Kubernetes, Database systems, Cloud networking). 
• Deep expertise with at least one Cloud platform required, with significant expertise with two+ (GCP and Azure) preferred. 
• Expertise building common Web/Internet platform components (e.g. proxies, caches, load balancers, firewalls, app/web server tiers, DB systems). 
• Unix scripting experience required and a willingness to learn/support those you may not presently know. 
• Conceptual and practical knowledge with modern DevOps techniques, such as CI/CD, IaC, Configuration Management, Secrets/Vault management. 
• Experience with 24x7x365 monitoring requirements, incident response, and on-call support. 
• Expertise in troubleshooting that spans systems, network, and applications in a distributed/microservice environment. 
• Skills in managing Java/Scala/Kotlin or other JVM-based languages, Python, and PHP preferred  
• Experience with databases like Postgres and SQL Server. 
• Exposure to Azure technologies like ADF, ADF Linked Services, Azure Key Vault, Azure managed identities and Azure DevOps. 
• Proven experience working with US based business teams   
• Excellent written and communication skills, both English and Hindi  
• Ability to work within core US business hours / time zone expectations - Eastern Standard Time (EST) overlap   
• Workspace: A quiet space to work, an internet connection of at least 30 Mbps download | 10 Mbps upload 

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Last updated on Jul 15, 2024