Senior SRE - Simi Valley, United States - Blue Pisces Consulting Inc.

Description

We're looking for a Senior Systems Reliability Engineer to help create, build and deliver amazing experiences for a well-known studio.

Primary responsibilities include helping existing, new and emerging business teams onboard technologies or platforms to accelerate their business.

This will include consultation, designing, building, and supporting development pipelines, automating infrastructure and operations, creating telemetry for monitoring, engineering high reliability, and reinforcing best practices to secure our company and guest data.

This will be a full-time, W2 position with Blue Pisces Consulting Inc. that includes all the benefits listed below.


* Please note, this position is 100% remote but you must be located in the USA and work PST hours. *

Basic Qualifications

• Fluent in multiple scripting languages and advanced skills in programming languages (e.g. Go, Python, Ruby, Dart, Node, Java, others alike) with ability to build test coverage for all software being developed.
• Systems administration skills on Linux and Windows platforms
• Networking skills and protocols (e.g. HTTP, TLS, SSH, DNS)
• Software Development Continuous Integration (CI) Pipeline knowledge (e.g. Jenkins, Gitlab CI)
• Experience with Distributed Systems and Container Platforms (e.g. Kubernetes/GKE, ECS, Mesos, Fargate, Nomad)
• Experience with Source Control Management systems (e.g. Git)
• Expertise in public and private cloud hosting services (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
• Recognized as an expert on at least one OS and proficient in multiple operating systems, including OS performance monitoring, setup, configuration, tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Proficient in web server technologies (e.g. Apache, , NginX, Tomcat, IIS, Caddy Server) including setup, configuration, performance monitoring, tuning, clustering, and debugging (e.g. JConsole).
• Proficient with data technologies (e.g. NoSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elastic) including being able to perform basic setup, configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Able to implement existing base standards for new systems and/or applications for all of the following:

o Site/Systems monitoring and instrumentation

o Application monitoring and instrumentation

o System monitoring and instrumentation

o Resilience, performance & Telemetry data

• Able to diagnose simple to complex system and process problems.
• Demonstrate exceptional troubleshooting methodology, including the ability to author and instruct new methodologies to the SRE team.
• Independently resolve moderately to highly complex system and application incidents.
• Able to identify and propose system and application fixes for performance bottlenecks.
• Able to evaluate new application requirements for capacity and run-time best practices.
• Able to evaluate new systems and/or infrastructure solutions for technical feasibility against known requirements and standards.

Effective at dealing with change:

Able to transition in role or handle a significant modification or technology with minimal ramp-up time and with very little guidance.

Communication and Leadership Requirements

• Excellent verbal and written communication to all levels in the organization.
• Demonstrates curiosity and continuous learning and self-improvement.
• Ability to write operational specs, architectural diagrams, test plans and requirements management.
• Communication of ideas and solutions in a clear and organized manner.
• Clear and effective presentations to groups of people, including internal and external conference presentations.
• Construction of concise and complete technical documentation.
• Mentoring of other engineers on technical material.
• Able to quickly and adeptly understand the needs of the business and be able to translate those needs into actionable items.

Benefits:

This is a full-time, W2 position (not a contract) with Blue Pisces Consulting Inc.

We offer a very competitive benefit package including:

• Attractive compensation
• Paid holidays and sick days
• Paid vacation days
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision package (50% paid for employee, 25% for spouse/dependents)
• Discretionary bonus
• 401(k)

Please note:
We cannot currently provide visa sponsorship. If you require visa sponsorship now, or in the future, please do not apply for this position.