61 applicants

Company

Rackspace Technology · 2 days ago

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

United States - Remote

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$144K/yr - $246K/yr

8+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Ensure completeness of the technical infrastructure to support system performance

Stay up to date with emerging technologies and trends in the enterprise hardware, infrastructure and networking industry

Partner with the application engineering team to ensure the stability and performance of our technology solutions

Continuous identification of problems in the technology stack and processes and their corresponding burndown

Follow and execute Rackspace change management processes

Participate in systems/code reviews and design sessions

Contribute to and organize central store of knowledge

Take full ownership of product life cycle

Participate in on-call rotation

Qualification

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Information systems designPerlPythonBashAnsibleChefSaltUnix/Linux systemsNetworking protocolsDistributed systemsOperational monitoring toolsDegree in CSOperating systems knowledgeSaaS applications designCloud infrastructure automationCI/CD pipeline designAlgorithmsData structuresRHCE certificationObject Storage systemsRelational databasesNon-relational databasesCloud service providersDockerContainer management systems

Required

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

8+ years of information systems design/architecture/development

Strong experience in one or more of: Perl, Python, or Bash

Strong experience in one or more of: Ansible, Chef, or Salt

Strong experience working with Unix/Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond, with experience working with system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols. Networking: e.g. TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, etc., MAC addresses, IP packets, DNS, SDN, OSI layers, and load balancing.

Experience in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

Intermediate knowledge of operating systems.

Familiarity with algorithms, data structures and complexity analysis.

Intermediate experience designing complex SaaS applications for cloud reliability and scalability.

Intermediate experience with cloud infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipeline design.

Expertise in operational monitoring and management tools (Sensu, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.).

Intermediate written & verbal communication skills, both highly technical and non-technical.

Ability to work closely with non-technical stakeholders and executives.

Systematic problem-solving approach coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive.