Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at BBD

The role

BBD is looking for SREs to assist in the delivery of software solutions to various clients.

This includes:

• Focussing mainly on delivering and maintaining production-grade systems which adhere to the pillars of SRE
• Ability to maintain a calm temperament in the face of potential incidents as well as good interpersonal skills when communicating with clients and other team members
• Workng in an Agile team follow and interacting closely to guide and assist engineering teams as they deliver business functionality
• Driving highly available and resilient architecture decisions, then implementing them with your team
• Mentoring and advising junior SREs as they grow in the field

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience as a DevOps or site reliability engineer
• 2+ years of experience as a software engineer with experience in popular languages such as Java / JavaScript / Golang / Python
• An understanding of distributed systems, service architectures, cloud native systems, the problems they attempt to solve as well as the related trade-offs to contribute to feature and service design
• Familiar with the implementation of monitoring and observability solutions (logging, metrics, and distributed tracing)
• Public cloud experience (AWS / Azure / GCP), certification preferable
• Local Infrastructure experience (virtualisation, *NIX systems)
• Knowledge of important networking concepts (HTTP and REST, SSL / TLS, SSH, etc)
• Container experience
• CNCF tools experience such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with implementing, maintaining and troubleshooting service mesh solutions, such as Istio
• Proven experience with production systems and dealing with production issues
• Out of the box thinking to solve infrastructure and operational problems

Expert knowledge of:

• Configuration management tools and Infrastructure-as-Code tooling and practices
• Systems monitoring, alerting and analytics (NewRelic, Graphite, ELK, EFK, Nagios, Ganglia, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.)
• Implementing SLIs and maintaining SLOs / SLAs
• Incident management, on-call responsibilities, and post-mortems
• Production readiness reviews of microservice workloads
• Toil automation using one of the aforementioned programming languages
• Intersystem integration mechanisms (REST APIs, SSH file delivery, site-to-site VPNs)