Site Reliability Engineer at The Skills Mine

Key Skills and Attributes Required

• 7 years’ experience with software engineering, software development, or system operations
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Knows their way around a Unix/Linux shell, can write shell scripts, and understands Linux internals
• Experience debugging complex problems
• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale production systems
• Knows Python, Java, Go, Rust, or similar
• Understands networking and messaging, especially between services
• Has hands-on experience using source control (Git, GitHub) and feature branching strategies
• Has experience with a variety of open-source databases (MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Cassandra, etc.)

Preferred

• Experience with DevOps engineering or SRE
• Experience with containers, such as with Docker or Kubernetes
• Experience with monitoring and observability such as with Datadog, Sensu, New Relic, and Nagios
• Experience automating infrastructure, testing, and deployments using tools like Ansible, Chef, or Terraform and can explain the Infrastructure as Code paradigm
• Experience with configuration management, such as with Puppet
• Understands the idea behind Chaos Engineering