Site Reliability Engineer (GCP)

Veritas Partners has an immediate need for a Site Reliability Engineer (GCP) to work in a full-time capacity for a well-established financial institution!

This is a hybrid in-office position.

The successful Site Reliability Engineer (GCP) will work on a newly developed Bank as a Service platform!

 We are in search of a dynamic SRE to partner with our Development teams to ensure the cloud-based infrastructure's integrity, performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.

Responsibilities:

●       Provide L2/L3 support for production systems

●       Work with the product and development teams to establish service level objectives and monitor to ensure the objectives are met

●       Create dashboards to monitor performance and scalability in GCP platform

●       An ability to design and code new software or modify existing software

●       Supporting cloud environments in accordance with operational requirements

●       Review, resolve incidents, escalation and tasks

●       Facilitate root cause analysis meetings in the event of a production-systems incident and improve run books.

●       Monitor production components by running health checks, monitoring latency and memory utilization.

●       Practice incident management best practices and perform RCA.

●       Participate in disaster recovery tests and operational acceptance tests

●       Deploying and debugging cloud initiatives as needed in accordance with best practices

●       Automating build and infrastructure self healing pipeline.

●       Maintain and update deployment Playbook

●       Remediate security vulnerabilities in the cloud infrastructure

●       Work with the Information security and dev teams on implementing secure cloud best practices.

●       Troubleshoot and resolve issues in live production environments and implement strategies to eliminate them with minimal support.

●       Support and monitor new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks.

●       Engage in improving the lifecycle of services deployment, operations, and refnement.

●       Participate in periodic 24x7 on-call duties.

●       Being accountable for resolving the outage via workaround or permanent fx

●       Ensuring all administration and reports are maintained and up to date including contacts information technical diagrams post major incident reviews.

●       Responsible for communicating with various stakeholders & shipping IT Communication.

●       Responsible for the effective implementation of the process Incident, Change and Problem Management and conducts the respective reporting procedure.

●       Monitor the incidents to ensure that the Service Level Agreement is respected.

●       Identify initiate schedule and conduct incident reviews

Qualifications:

●       Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills to maintain relationships and partnerships.

●       Strong leadership skills and understanding of developing and mentoring others.

●       5+ years of experience in a DevOps Engineer role or related position

●       2+ years of experience with GCP is a must. Experience with AWS or Azure preferred in addition to GCP experience.

●       Experience with log monitoring tools

●       Experience administering multiple observability or APM systems

●       2+ years of Software Development work experience using Java or similar languages.

●       Experience with Apache Kafka or similar event streaming platforms

●       Experience with container orchestration

●       Disaster recovery experience

●       High level proficiency in understanding of REST and microservice architectures

●       Advanced understanding of how to develop, build, test, and deploy code using an integrated CI/CD Pipeline

●       Hands on experience automating CI/CD pipelines

●       Cloud Certification(s) in AWS, GCP or Azure is preferred

●       Demonstrated ability to manage and complete projects from design phase to implementation phase

Technical Skills & Experience Required

●       Cloud services providers: GCP

●       Orchestration: GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions

●       CI/CD tools: GitHub CI, Jenkins, CloudBuild

●       Infrastructure as Code: Terraform

●       Monitoring tools: Google Cloud Monitoring, Grafana, DataDog, Google Cloud Trace

●       Logging tools: Google Cloud Logging, Prometheus and/or Splunk

●       Secrets management

●       Languages: Python, GO, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript

●       Kafka, KSQL

●       Linux

●       Scalable, high-available architecture

●       Agile development

●       SCM and project management tools: Gitlab, Jira

Requirements:

●       Hybrid/remote position with ability to work at our Sterling office.

●       Expertise with GCP.

●       Experience working with GitHub, Git-based tools, CI/CD tools similar to Jenkins, Artifactory, Terraform, CloudFormation and other modern tools.

●       Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerization, GKE or equivalent tools.