Site Reliability Engineer ​/ Columbus, OH,12+ Months Contract

Software Developer

We are hiring a Software Developer who will build and support reliable, high capacity, and well-performing systems in support of our mission to protect and improve the client. An ever-watchful eye on reliability, security, performance, cost, and operational excellence. We call this work Site Reliability Engineering. As a Site Reliability Engineer within a small team, you will collaborate in a Dev Ops model with product development teams;

designing, deploying, and managing automation tools that increase predictability as well as time to market while reducing cost. If you love to seek automation over repetitive tasks, are well-versed in AWS services and a desire to continually learn, have complex distributed system experience, and like engineering software solutions to solve cloud-related problems, then you will thrive in this position.

Our stack:

• Code:
  Node, PHP, Python, Java script, YAML, Bash
• RDBMS:
  PostGreSQL, MySQL
• Cache:
  Elasti Cache (Redis/memcached), DynamoDB
• Containers: ECS, EKS & Docker
• Cloud:
  Amazon AWS
• Telemetry:
  New Relic, Cloud Watch
• Build:
  Jenkins, CircleCI, Git Hub Enterprise
• Web:
  Apache httpd
• Infrastructure as Code:
  Terraform (Preferred), Cloud Formation

Your contributions:

• Cloud Engineering
• Hands-on design, analysis, development and troubleshooting of highly-distributed large-scale production systems and event-driven, cloud-based services
• Ensure repeatability, traceability, and transparency of our infrastructure automation (infrastructure-as-code, monitoring-as-code)
• Participate in continual learning of the AWS ecosystem, game day scenarios, and professional conferences
• Collaborative solutioning of enterprise applications with development teams utilizing our software stack
• Actively monitor AWS Cost, and utilize optimizer to maximize ROI while maintaining Service Level Objectives
• Observability Engineering
• Ownership of reliability, uptime, system security, cost, operations, capacity, resiliency and performance thereof
• Define, monitor and report on service level indicators for applications workloads
• Support on-call rotations for operational duties that have not been addressed with automation, with an eye for correcting issues that result in on-call alarms
• Maintain telemetry that improve the visibility to our applications' performance and business metrics and keep operational workload in-check
• Develop, communicate, collaborate, and monitor standard processes to promote the long-term health and sustainability of operational development tasks.
• Dev Sec Ops
• Support healthy software development practices, including complying with agile software development methodology, building standards for code reviews, work packaging, and continuous delivery
• Partner with Cyber Security and develop plans and automation to respond to new risks and vulnerabilities

Qualifications:

• Experience as a software engineer, with practical experience developing, debugging, and deploying enterprise applications
• Experience with infrastructure automation technologies, preferably Terraform
• Experience in container/container-fleet-orchestration technologies, preferably EKS or ECS
• Versatility with troubleshooting diverse sets of hosting technologies: web server platforms, application platforms, operating systems, network components, virtualization technologies, storage, and database platforms.
• Experience with continuous-deployment based software development life cycles (e.g. CI/CD)
• Experience with application caching strategies and high concurrency workloads
• Strong communication, problem solving, root cause analysis and systems engineering skills
• Ability to design and manage escalation response plans from monitoring, react, respond, remediate and retrospect in culturally aligned (proactive, customer focused, collaborative, data-driven) ways.
• Demonstrated expertise building and managing highly scaled production infrastructure in the cloud
• BS Degree in Computer Science (or related technical field and/or equivalent industry experience)