Sr. SRE

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Why Should You Become a Site Reliability Engineer At Axelerant?
Does managing and extending massive cloud platforms get your creative mind racing? Do you love building and debugging open-source, LAMP-stack architectures using cutting-edge technologies? Are you ready to ditch the commute and work from wherever is comfortable for you? If yes, then Axelerant is looking for a Senior Engineer like you.

As a Senior Software Engineer - Site Reliability, you will be implementing automated solutions for multiple customers in various industries. Further, you will employ industry-leading continuous integration, delivery, and deployment patterns while collaboratively working with peers to execute them towards successful solutions. This role is hands-on development and operations and will be committing code to repositories daily.

Responsibilities

1. Responsible for understanding and implementing solutions to meet desired business outcomes and standards sustainably
2. Responsible for design, deployment, and support automation of continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline operations per account and organizational requirements
3. Participate in design, build, and on-call support of various cloud, container, and on-premises platforms through standalone and integration operations
4. Strategize, review, design, and implement safe, secure, scalable, and easily maintained IT infrastructure for the organization and clients
5. Responsible for ensuring that operational and service level agreements are operationally met through SLI and SLO monitoring, analysis, and incident responses
6. Participate in planning team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities plus proactive support thereof. 

Skills, Knowledge, and Expertise

1. 4+ years of professional site reliability career experience
2. 1+ years of experience using agile methodologies; Git source code versioning and Pull Requests
3. Experience with a scripting language like Python, Java, JavaScript, C#, Ruby, PHP, or SmashTest
4. Experience with automation platforms tools like TravisCI, CircleCI, Jenkins, or GitLabCI
5. Experience with cloud provider Amazon Web Services (AWS)
6. Experience with container and orchestration technology Kubernetes
7. Experience with Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) and configuration management tool Terraform.
8. Experience with monitoring, APM, and alerting tools like Newrelic, Pingdom, or Pagerduty
9. Experience with twelve-factor development methodology for building software-as-a-service applications
10. Ability to automate tasks using a scripting language
11. Ability to use shell extensively and use regular expressions comfortably
12. Strong communication skills and ability to partner across organizations

Good To Have 

1. Certifications: Amazon Web Services and/or Kubernetes Administrator
2. Experience with Governance best practices and DEVSECOPS methodologies
3. Familiar with the 3factor application architecture pattern
4. Get’s the big picture
5. Experience in managing multiple priorities and competing demands
6. Exposure to cloud providers like Microsoft Azure, or GCP
7. Exposure to with IaC and configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt
8. Knowledge of other container and orchestration technologies like Docker or OpenShift.

What Would Success Look Like For You?
As a Senior Software Engineer, success means maintaining system availability, scalability, and reliability through proactive monitoring, automation, and incident management. It involves collaborating with development teams, staying current on DevOps and SRE practices, and potentially advancing to a Staff Software Engineer role in four years at Axelerant.

Your Work’s Impact
As a Site Reliability Engineer, your work directly impacts the stability and performance of our digital infrastructure, enabling our applications to deliver exceptional experiences to users without interruption. By championing reliability and scalability, you enhance our company's reputation for providing dependable services, boosting customer trust and satisfaction. Collaborating cross-functionally, you contribute to a culture of operational excellence, fostering innovation and ensuring our systems can withstand the challenges of a rapidly evolving technological landscape. Your role is integral to maintaining our company's competitive edge in a digital-first world.

About Us:
As a global company that puts care into employee happiness, engineering excellence, and customer success, we are in striking contrast to the typical outsourcing option. We are a diverse team working remotely across many time zones, with success stories that back up capabilities, and a reputation for an unconventional work environment that empowers. We are the individuals directly challenging what it means to do global delivery differently for employees and partners.

Success management as our service framework operationally is part of who we are at Axelerant. All of our processes and practices are driven by this core, continuously iterated method. What this means is success management teams and success journey mapping for our partners.