Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) – Networking

Job Summary:  As a Site Reliability Engineer I (SRE) you’ll combine software and systems engineering to build and run large- scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. SRE ensures that Rackspace's managed service offerings & customer deployments have reliability and uptime appropriate to users' needs and a fast rate of improvement while monitoring and validating capacity and performance. You’l be focused on reliability, scalability and the development of automation to manage a set of repetitive tasks at scale.Work Location: Remote

Key Responsibilities:

• Support high complexity deployments and internal teams on an as-needed basis.
• Collaborate with other teams on tools for systems automation.
• Work in conjunction with multiple teams to ensure up-time and reliability of customer deployments.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or equivalent required. Bachelor’s degree in computer science preferred.
• 2+ years of information systems design/architecture/development experience.
• Experience in one or more of: C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Bash or Go.
• Expertise in operational monitoring and management tools (Nagios, Datadog, etc.).
• Expertise in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong experience with GCP, AWS or Openstack APIs.
• Intermediate experience working with Unix/Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond, with experience working with system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols. Networking: e.g. TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, etc., MAC addresses, IP packets, DNS, SDN, OSI layers, and load balancing.
• Intermediate knowledge of operating systems. Familiarity with algorithms, data structures and complexity analysis. Intermediate experience designing complex SaaS applications for cloud reliability and scalability.
• Intermediate experience with cloud infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipeline design.
• Ability to work closely with non-technical stakeholders and executives. Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CEPH and other modern tools/technologies.
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