Principal Site Reliability Engineer

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Principal Site Reliability Engineer

*Remote / Virtual Opportunity

Have you ever wondered what it takes to run a cloud infrastructure at scale?  Do you enjoy a challenge and improving services already at scale?  Our team of engineers at Virtustream work to design, build and operate a infrastructure-as-a-service cloud for some of the biggest companies in the world.  The database engineering  team is looking for individuals with a diverse set of experience and skills to design, build and operate database solutions needed for the exciting new Virtustream Cloud.  As a site reliability engineer you will build and maintain a database platform for metadata services, automated remediation, and service management at scale needed to maintain high service reliability with low touch.

Responsibilities include:

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Design, build, and operate a NoSQL based metadata service

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Build scalable services running on a Container platform.

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Develop solutions for monitoring, automated remediation, measuring availability and reliability, performance, analytics and security

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Maintaining environment state with the use of configuration tools and event driven automation

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Participate in collaborative projects with software engineering teams

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Participate in troubleshooting, capacity planning and analysis, performance analysis activities.

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Part of a 24x7 service watch rotation team

Requirements:

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Experience supporting and troubleshooting production platform environments at scale

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Production experience using configuration management tools (eg Ansible, Saltstack, Puppet, Chef)

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Experience instrumenting monitoring and alerting for production platforms

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Proficiency implementing and maintaining continuous integration and delivery workflows.

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Experience managing Unix/Linux systems in production

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A tenacious ability to diagnose and fix performance and reliability problems

Preferred skills:

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Experience in deploying, managing, tuning, administering and scaling Cassandra database cluster

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Experience in JVM tuning/Monitoring and related tools.

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Understanding of Unix/Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond, taking in system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols

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Experience with backup and disaster recovery solution for Cassandra

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3+ year Experience on Container Orchestration tool like Kubernetes/Marathon etc

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3+ year Experience as DevOps, Operations Engineer, or SRE (development for large online services)

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3+ year Experience building and operating highly available and scalable infrastructure solutions

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Experience working in distributed, remote teams across multiple time zones a plus

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Ability to travel for team meetings.

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