Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Location:

Dallas, TX

• Azure Dev Ops (YAML, ARM)
• Azure Kubernetes Service
• Kubernetes (open source)
• Docker

• Partner with the architecture and development teams on how to make applications highly available, reliable, and performant at global scale.
• Collaborate with the architecture team to ensure reliability factors are accounted for in business features and enablers.
• Guide development teams in understanding established service level objectives and consequences, implementing appropriate SLIs to support the objectives.
• Collaborate with development team members to swarm, troubleshoot, and resolve problems.
• Guide ad‑hoc teams to brainstorm solutions and build implementation plans based on root cause analysis of production issues.
• Design and build automated solutions to optimize application/service/platform uptime with minimal human intervention.
• Be available for an on‑call rotation to participate in troubleshooting and communication efforts outside of normal business hours.
• Implement and help create standards and best practices, and mentor other team members to drive adoption across development teams.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Conform with all company policies and procedures.

• Expert in defining, implementing, and evaluating Service Level Objectives (SLO) and Service Level Indicators (SLI), and associated consequences.
• Software development expertise in two or more high‑level programming and scripting languages.
• Experience in evolutionary database design, query performance analysis, and indexing as a cornerstone for delivering scalable, performant products and services.
• Experience in designing, building, and optimizing automated pipelines with automated testing and automated security controls.
• Experience in performing root cause analysis and problem management.
• Experience working in Agile Scrum teams with demonstrated success leading improvements (getting better/faster/happier).

• Help establish and maintain a culture of learning through the development and sharing of skills, knowledge, process and tools; combat traditional silos that create “us and them” environments.
• A driving passion for finding solutions to hard problems at scale and operationalizing them.
• Exceptional critical thinking and communication skills, with a passion for leveraging documentation as a tool for constant improvement.

• Pipeline Automation:
  Azure Dev Ops (YAML, ARM), Terraform, Jenkins, Chef, Octopus Deploy.
• Code Scanning:
  Sonar Qube, Checkmarx.
• Source Code repos:
  Git.
• Containerization:
  Azure Kubernetes Service, Kubernetes (open source), Docker.
• High‑level programming languages:
  Java, C# (.NET MVC and .NET Core), Go.
• Scripting:
  Power Shell, Bash.
• Database:
  Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, No
  
  SQL (e.g., Cosmos
  
  DB).
• Test Automation:
  Xamarin.
  
  UITest, Specflow, Dev Test, Selenium, Test Data Manager, Postman, Maven, TestNG, JMeter.
• Operating systems:
  Windows, Linux.
• Cloud platforms:
  Azure.
• Metrics and Monitoring:
  Splunk.