Senior Reliability Engineer :
Senior Reliability Engineer (Senior level)
Description
- Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a modern way of delivering IT Solutions by imbibing Software engineering principles in Service Delivery to reduce IT Risk to business, improve business resilience, attain predictability & reliability, optimize cost of IT Infra and Ops
- A Reliability Engineer typically has deep software engineering experience encompassing design, build, deploy and manage / maintain an IT solution ensuring resilience, reliability, and performance.
- A Reliability Engineer is a bridge between development and operations by applying a software engineering mindset to the development, deployment, and maintenance of applications to maximize system reliability & automation, while improving efficiencies by optimizing resources
Responsibilities
Defining SLA / SLO / SLI for a product / serviceEngineering in resilient design and implementation practices into solutions as they go through the product life cycleEngineering out manual effort (Toil) through the development of automated processes and services (, Automated Management of Systems, CI / CD improvements)Developing Observability Solutions to track, report, and measure SLA adherenceHelp Optimize Cost of IT Infra & Operations - FinOpsCritical Situation managementSOP / Runbook automation, Toil reductionData Analytics & System trend analysisTypical Skills and Background
7+ years of experience in software product engineering principles, processes and systemsHands-on experience in Java / J2EE, one of web server (Apache Tomcat or IBM HTTP Server), one of the application servers (Tomcat / WebSphere), and any major RDBMS like OracleHands-on experience in at least one CI-CD (Azure DevOps, GitLab CI / CD, Jenkins) and IaC tools (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible etc.)Experience in at least one cloud technology (AWS / Azure / GCP etc. and Docker, Pivotal, Kubernetes, OpenShift etc.) and its reliability tools (Azure AppInsight, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor etc.)Experience in Linux (RHEL) operating system performance monitoring parameters and their interpretation, commands used for monitoringExperience in Observability - APM tools (Dynatrace, AppDynamics etc.), metrics / log consolidation (Splunk) and ELK StackDefining NFRs and SLA / SLO / SLI agreement for a product / platform / servicesKnowledge on queuing models used, thread pools, request servicing processes etc.Knowledge in Web Services, SOA, ESB (DataPower), RESTFulKnowledge of application design patterns, J2EE application architectures, Microservices, Spring boot & Cloud native architecturesProficiency in Java runtimes, Core Java, Garbage collection, JVM parameters tuningExperience in performance tuning on Application Servers (Tomcat / WAS)Experience in trouble shooting Performance / Scalability / Availability issuesExperience in Thread dump, heap dump generation & analysisKnowledge on Query tuning and database designs & modelsKnowledge at least one automation scripting language like PythonMastery in collaborative software development using Git, Jira, Confluence etc.AI / ML & Data Analytics knowledge and experience is a desirable