SRE

Company: The Phoenix Group
Location: New York
Posted on: April 11, 2021

Job Description:

As a Site Reliability Engineer at our client, you can expect to work on a wide variety of projects alongside world-class software engineers and data scientists. You'll work with different teams across the organization, designing, implementing and operationalizing infrastructure. Along the way you will have the freedom to build your own tooling and automation mation where applicable, prototype systems engineering ideas, and advise on improvements to our infrastructure.
Their work is project-centric and focused on using the best tools for the job all while embracing core SRE principles. These include, but are not limited to Infrastructure as Code [Terraform, Packer], monitoring and observability [Prometheus, Grafana, Kiali], continuous integration and delivery [CircleCI], logging and alerting [Cloudwatch, Fluentd, VictorOps] and elimination of toil by automating and streamlining existing systems.
Most of our infrastructure is cloud-based, and they make heavy use of Docker and container orchestrators [Kubernetes, ECS] for running our microservice applications. Our data stores range from PostgreSQL to Redshift to Redis depending on the use case and scale of the data and we like using Apache Airflow for ETL pipelining and process automation.
Our StackDocker & Kubernetes - kops, EKSPythonTerraformAWS - EC2, ELB, S3, ECS, RDS Postgres, RedshiftAirflowCircleCIRabbitMQMonitoring (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry)
Your responsibilities would include:Creating, configuring and maintaining cloud-based infrastructure and services for the rapid development and monitoring of complex data science and analytics applications.Building really cool stuff! We are constantly engineering and automating to improve reliability and stability of our applications (and to minimize repetitive work).Being an active member of the larger software engineering team, helping to improve the organization's SDLC process and minimizing time from code-complete to production.Answering the call - responding to pages and alerts as needed to restore services.
What you will bring to the table:Years of experience as a Software/DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer.Solid Bash/Linux skills and proficiency in at least one high-level language (we like Python).Experience with containerized development using Docker.Proficiency building, configuring and maintaining cloud resources; particularly in AWSExperience with modern datastores at medium-large scale (Redshift, Postgres, MySQL, Mongo).Ability to conduct root-cause analysis and troubleshoot errors/outages across the stacks.Measured opinions on system architecture and app design backed by sound logic and experience.Ability to create your own tooling for automating or simplifying day-to-day operational tasks.
Bonus points if you:Are familiar with general tools and principles used in data engineering/ETL processes (e.g., Redshift, S3, Airflow, AWS.Terraform knowledge in cloud based deployment.Have setup and administered container orchestrators like ECS and Kubernetes.Are familiar with building CI/CD tooling around existing apps.Are experienced in Python.Have experience with the AWS EMR, Athena, Glue or Apache Spark.
Perks Include:Unlimited PTOEquity plan with profit sharingVacation and birthday cash bonusesGenerous medical planPaid parental leaveCompany-paid cell phone serviceIn-house barista plus cold brew on tap!Fully stocked kitchenWeekly company lunches

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