SRE Senior Engineer- Union, NJ

SRE Senior Engineer

Location:

Union, NJ

Rate: DOE $/hr. on w2 only

Position Type: contract

Responsibilities:

• Engage at all levels across the organization
• Design, build, test, and size systems
• Automating monitoring, alerting, and escalation
• Troubleshoot issues across the entire stack - hardware, software, applications and network
• Define and validate current and future configuration processes and policies
• Take part in a 24x7 on-call rotation

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience as an SRE
• Experience responding to catastrophic Sev 1 events and being an active participant in resolution
• Hands on experience building fault tolerant infrastructure containing Kubernetes, Kafka, Cassandra at scale
• Hands on experience building and using monitoring tools such as CA, Nagios, InfluxDB, Grafana, Prometheus, Stack Driver, etc.
• AWS / Google Cloud experience is required
• Hands on experience using one of the following configuration management tools such as Puppet, Ansible, Salt, Chef, or CFEngine
• Familiarity with log analysis tools such as Sumo Logic, ELK, and Splunk
• Knowledge of RUM tools and APM tools such as New Relic, Webpagetest, mPulse, boomerang.js, etc.
• Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, security, and storage
• Practical knowledge of shell scripting and at least one scripting language (Python, Ruby)
• Detail oriented, passionate, even obsessive
• Most importantly, you must be highly intellectually curious, independent, but still a team player