Early Career - Site Reliability Engineer

TEKsystems • Pittsburgh, PA

5d • $20 - $25 • Onsite

About The Position

As a Retail Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) within Client's Site Reliability 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 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

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed