Senior Associate, Site Reliability Engineer

SitusAMC

4d•Remote

About The Position

In this role, you will be supporting products that have recently been transitioned from on-prem data center into AWS Cloud. The position will be heavily involved in strategizing and implementing cloud best practices for newly transitioned products into Cloud. You will maintain operational coverage of environments and continuously look for optimization, reengineering, and efficiency to ensure the products running on the cloud as a SaaS offering to our clients are stable and reliable. Additionally, enhancing automation capabilities, scaling, process improvement, metric collection, security, and visibility into the product environments. Leveraging various DevOps approaches which include but not limited to CI/CD processes, working closely with development teams to ensure a manageable and secure migration of change into the production environment. Other responsibilities may include getting embedded within product teams to enable the enterprise PaaS & SaaS offerings created by the Platform teams.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
Experienced professional with 5+ years of industry and/or relevant experience, typically with 1+ years in an Associate level role or external equivalent.
Cumulative experience in DevOps – with 70% Ops 30% Development efforts preferred
Strong Experience with Containerization, Kubernetes, EKS, CI/CD pipelines using GitOps Methodology like ArgoCD and FluxCD
Experience with Monitoring tool (especially CloudWatch alerts ), troubleshooting issues and be the escalation point
Implement best practices for configuring, tuning, and securing API’s/Microservices to achieve optimal performance and uptime
Utilize tools such as curl and wget to perform diagnostics, analyze network performance, and troubleshoot connectivity issues.
Demonstrate a deep knowledge of HTTP concepts and protocols to analyze and optimize web application performance.
Strong experience with Terraform and best practices in IAC
Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, and PowerShell).
Expertise in transfer family with large files, managing EC2 instances and AMIs, deploying applications using AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and configuring and optimizing Load Balancers.
Demonstrate proficiency in SQL and SQL administration, managing database/schema/catalog configurations, users/logins, and synonyms and performance troubleshooting in RDS.
Implement and maintain basic database hygiene concepts, ensuring data integrity and efficient data storage.
Manage and optimize cloud-based infrastructure in AWS, ensuring high availability and performance.
Experience with container orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker) is a must need
Strong Network Management skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Experience working in Azure Devops , including managing and processing tickets, CI/CD pipelines, release management, and infrastructure as code.

Nice To Haves

Experience with service mesh technologies (e.g., Linkerd, Istio) is a plus.

Responsibilities

Work closely with Development, Business, and Platform teams and being the point for products and underlying infrastructure of the products running in AWS Cloud
Work in an Agile methodology using Scrum and Kanban boards.
Enabling the development teams with Cloud best practices and having knowledge of AWS Well architected Framework
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement scalable and reliable solutions.
Improve observability aspects end to end of the Applications running in Cloud
Experience with supporting applications on-prem and migrating them from on-prem to AWS Cloud
Lead strategic initiatives for seamless application integration, orchestrating the collaboration of diverse software components to enhance overall system efficiency and drive optimal performance in dynamic, cloud-native environments
Other activities as may be assigned by your manager