Lead Software Reliability Engineer

RE Partners•Mississauga, ON

12h

About The Position

We are seeking experienced, hands-on Software Reliability Engineers to act as evangelists for continuous integration, testing, and safe, automated deployments. This is a practical DevOps and SRE role for practitioners who lead by example to make change safe and easy for development teams. The position is roughly 70% coding and configuration.

Requirements

Several years of experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) using multiple test frameworks.
Really excellent understanding of the different approaches to automation testing and an ability to choose the best approach and drive outcomes with AI support
Proficiency in JVM languages and/or TypeScript.
Highest quality coding skills
An excellent understanding of safe practices for critical systems, including deployment architecture and observability
At home with multiple continuous integration and deployment systems
Excellent understanding of secure coding practices
Competent with Docker and Openshift
Actively embracing AI coding
Comfortable with build automation tools such as Gradle, Maven, and npm.
Competent with (RedHat ) Linux

Nice To Haves

Spring framework skills are advantageous.
Ansible skills are advantageous

Responsibilities

Conduct targeted engagements with development teams facing challenges getting to safe and rapid release cadence, or struggling with vulnerability resolution.
Wrapping the application in a suite of well-designed tests, most of which can run locally, including smoke tests to be run as part of the deployment process.
Sourcing and integrating appropriate test data, implementing data masking in lower environments
Upgrading to supported runtimes (generally Java or NPM).
Containerizing applications where feasible.
Upgrading open-source libraries to their latest available major versions (e.g., migrating from Spring 2).
Upgrading to the latest version of all dependencies, whether installed software, libraries, internal code, base images or operating system. Implementing processes that allow us seamlessly to stay current
Implementing continuous library updates using Renovate.
Introducing best practice source control and branch management
Improving code review processes
Ensuring best practice security patterns, secrets management, authentication and authorisation
Simplifying and automating application deployment processes, including automated database changes with Liquibase and installed software with Ansible.
Introducing standard observability patterns.
Overhauling exception handling and logging.
Implementing resilient hot-hot cross-datacenter deployment topologies.