Software Engineer (Site Reliability Engineer)

Job Title: Software Engineer

Experience: 2-4 Years

Work Location: Trivandrum

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Drive architectural/technical service improvements that are cutting across all areas working with different teams.
• Call out major risks and issues from a reliability perspective using data to make informed decisions and drive mitigation plans working with different teams.
• Design and build features and tools to support performance and capacity planning.
• Monitor and continually improve the capacity of our production environments infrastructure aligned to the Application performance.
• Identify and define SLOs, SLAs and SLIs from a reliability perspective and ensure automation and analytics drive approach.
• Identify sources to gather diagnostic information and provide solutions.
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes working closely with multiple teams.
• Challenge the status quo and determination to lead through change using a bold, fail-fast mentality.

Expectation from candidate role:

• 2 - 3 years of experience
• Professional experience with any of the cloud environments (Azure / AWS / Google)
• Experience ensuring the resilience of scalable cloud native solutions
• Experience working with infrastructure as code tools like - Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc
• Experience working with CI/CD tools like - Jenkins, Git, Github, etc
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Exposure on centralized logging solutions like - Graylog, Splunk, Elk, etc
• Exposure on active monitoring solutions like Grafana, New Relic, DataDog, Prometheus, etc
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Powershell)
• Strong knowledge on container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes
• Knowledge of networking principles & understanding of IT security best practices (firewalls, load balancing, routing and switching)
• Knowledge of horizontal and vertical scaling best practices
• Good interpersonal, communication and organizational skills

Must have Skills:

• Understanding & working knowledge in Azure
• Knowledge of IAC Terraform
• Knowledge of AKS

Good to have Skills:

• Knowledge of networking principles & understanding of IT security best practices (firewalls, load balancing, routing and switching)
• Exposure on active monitoring solutions like Grafana, New Relic, DataDog, Prometheus, etc.
• Knowledge of horizontal and vertical scaling best practices