Lead Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)

The Site Reliability Engineering team is responsible for building and maintaining DMD's cloud-based infrastructure. This involves the use of modern tools and techniques to provision, deploy, configure and monitor a wide array of technologies, from serverless web applications to database clusters, traditional web-server farms and more.

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SrSRE) will, as a member of this team, help to lead the planning, designing and implementation of many such services. They will work closely with various business units throughout the organization, mostly development teams, to whom the team provides infrastructure in a rigorously defined set of services.

The successful candidate must possess and be able to demonstrate a solid foundation of technical knowledge, meaning a full understanding of foundational concepts of Linux, Cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), general networking (TCP/IP), and programming/scripting (Python/Bash).

Above and beyond the requisite skillset, the ideal candidate will take a holistic view towards infrastructure engineering, with the overarching goal of ensuring reliability of operations. Observable, reproducible, scalable and highly reliable infrastructure are of utmost importance and the Senior SRE will endeavor to make this the de facto approach at all times.

Essential Job Functions:

• Provide clear goals for all areas of a project and develop steps to oversee their timely execution
• Lead and assist product engineers in creating practical architectural implementation of proposed solutions
• Collaborate and mentor other engineers throughout the company and seek to continually improve process
• Provide detailed specifications for proposed solutions
• Strong oral and written communication abilities are critical. Effective written communication is particularly important, given that this is a remote work opportunity and collaborative group.
• Help define, document, evolve, and evangelize high engineering standards and best practices across multiple areas
• Deploy and maintain critical applications on cloud-based architecture
• Implement automation, effective monitoring and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)
• Continuously evaluate existing systems with industry standards, and make recommendations for improvement

Skills and Qualifications:

• Knowledge of modern DevOps/SRE practices
• Significant (7+ years) experience building, managing, and supporting cloud-based IT infrastructure (IaC)
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools or technologies (notably Terraform)
• Windows system administration knowledge is a plus, but not required
• Knowledge of source control systems and workflow (notably git)
• Solid foundational knowledge of TCP/IP networking
• Good understanding of current security practices
• Thorough knowledge of Unix and/or Linux fundamentals and system administration
• Expertise with public cloud services (notably AWS)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent professional experience
• Some programming/scripting experience with at least one language (Python, Go, JavaScript notably)

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