Site Reliability Engineer; Rustici) US, Franklin, Remote

Position: Site Reliability Engineer (Rustici) US, Franklin, Remote
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team here at Rustici Software. Come work alongside our software development teams, deploying the applications we create in our AWS hosted infrastructure. We are a remote/in-office hybrid company located in Franklin, TN. While we give preference to local candidates, we are open to qualified remote candidates residing in the United States.

The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Rustici Software contributes to the success of the Site Reliability team in deploying, monitoring, and maintaining multiple large applications along with hundreds of customer environments hosted in AWS. The SRE is an individual contributor reporting to the Director of Dev Sec Ops  and will participate in an on-call rotation schedule.

US based only, direct hire only, no recruiters, no contracting agencies, please.

What will you be doing?

Assist in the improvement of internal automation specifically through the use of “Infrastructure as Code” tools

Assist in the maintenance of and addition of new features to the infrastructure control plane

Act as the primary contact to monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues as part of an on-call rotation of roughly one week per month to adhere to a 24/7/365 SLACollaborate with the Director of Dev Sec Ops  as well as other members of the SRE team to explore, plan, and implement or improve the security posture, reliability, performance, and cost of hosted resources

Collaborate with one or more product development teams on application development direction as relates to aspects of deployment and operational factors

Collaborate with the members of the support and integration teams to assist with the support of customer environments as relates to deployment and operational factors

Continuously improve knowledge of best practices in site reliability and technical skills related to security, automation, networking, and system operations

Successful candidates

Successful candidates have a mix of skills in the technology space centering around the deployment and up keep of web application products. We look for the following, but if you don’t have experience with all of the following we’d still like to hear from you.

Extensive experience of one or more Unix CLIs including tools such as zsh/bash, non-graphical text editor(s), git, and various other common shell utilities for system administration

Extensive experience using AWS resources in the deployment of highly available web application platforms

Experience with implementing Infrastructure as Code

Experience with the application of security tools, controls, and policies

Experience with CI/CD pipeline configuration and orchestration

Experience with deployment and orchestration of containerized resources (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)Additional Technical Background Broad knowledge of AWS resources including EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, Cloud Front, Elasticache, SQS, Route
53, ELB, Lambda, etc.

Broad knowledge of DNS, CDNs, load balancers, web servers, application servers, databases (MySQL), and networking concepts like the basics of TCP/UDP, RFC 1918 subnets, and NAT Familiarity with Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible or similar tools

Familiarity with Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, or other automated task management tools

Familiarity with web application (HTML, CSS) development using contemporary frameworks in Java, Python, JavaScript/Type Script, or similar particularly in extensible, scalable, performant, and secure implementations

Familiarity with non-web based scripting language(s) such as Python, JavaScript (Node.js), Go, etc.

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