Early Career - Site Reliability Engineer

TEKsystems•Pittsburgh, PA

10d•$20 - $25•Onsite

About The Position

As a Retail Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) within the client's Site Reliable Center, you will combine your software and systems expertise to manage applications and to create innovative and automated solutions to simplify operations, eliminate toil, and increase the reliability and availability of our critical applications and business services. The objective of this role is to run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health, build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications, improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions, measure and optimize system performance with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating for continual improvement, and provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large-scale distributed software applications.

Requirements

Python, java, sql, oracle
Engineering and support of micro app/service architectures
Working knowledge of web services technologies such as SOAP, JSON and REST
Application Platforms such as OpenShift, Docker and Kubernetes
Development Frameworks such as React, Node.js and Spring Boot
Expertise in database technologies including SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle and Mongo
Understanding of distributed tracing and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Jaeger and Humio
Experience with Kafka event streaming
Strong working knowledge of modern development technologies and tools such as Agile, CI/CD, Git and Jenkins
Strong working knowledge of Internet protocols such as HTTP, TCP/UDP

Responsibilities

Gather and analyze metrics from operating systems as well as applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service-level objectives
Partner with technology teams across the enterprise to establish SRE best practices and automated solutions with a focus on operational excellence
Identify opportunities to evangelize adoption for greater self-healing and resiliency patterns
Troubleshoot priority incidents and participate in blameless post-mortems
Perform analytics on previous incidents and usage patterns to better predict issues and take proactive actions.
Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations and escalation workflows