Sr Site Reliability Engineer

McCann Partners has partnered with a Chicago based financial firm to hire a Senior, Site Reliability Engineer for a long-term contract position. Resources are preferred to work out of either the Chicago, IL or Dallas TX locations and will be required to work a hybrid model.

WORK TO BE PERFORMED:

• Collaborate with development, operations and infrastructure teams to ensure availability of services, and to work through implementation issues.
• Develop automation for incident response and to prevent problem recurrence
• Create and enhance runbooks to respond to service outages or degradations
• Assess the production readiness of services
• Define and track operational metrics for production performance, reliability, scalability and availability
• Architect, develop and maintain shared services and tools to improve reliability and reduce toil across the organization
• Contribute to the team’s continuous improvement through research, retrospectives, discussion groups and code reviews
• Provide support within the team by guiding and mentoring junior members, and preparing stories for the sprint backlog

SKILL AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Qualifications:

• Experience with maintaining and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with Agile / Scrum methodology
• Able to succeed in fast-paced environment with frequent changes
• Comfortable communicating with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong documentation skills
• Analytical problem-solving approach
• Self-starter – takes the initiative to research, learn and deliver. Anticipates the play.
• Team player – humble, collaborative, and focused on making sure the entire team succeeds

Technical Skills:

• Experience managing infrastructure in public cloud environments like AWS (preferred), Azure or GCP
• Experience providing visibility using monitoring and alerting tools like Splunk, SignalFx, AppDynamics, Datadog, StackDriver, Sysdig, Prometheus or Grafana
• Programming/scripting experience in languages like Java, Bash, Python or Go
• Experience with distributed messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or ActiveMQ
• Experience with container orchestration systems like Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarm or Rancher
• Experience with using Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools like Jenkins, Travis, Harness, Spinnaker, Appveyor, CodeBuild or CodePipeline.

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