Sr Site Reliability Engineer - Gitlab (Self-Managed)

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

Sr Site Reliability Engineer

Overview :

Welcome to Developer Experience team (DevEx) at F5! DevEx plays a critical role in managing and maintaining the systems that F5 employees rely on daily and throughout the entire Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). DevEx empowers the engineering team by managing key services such as GitLab (On-prem / SaaS), GitLab Runners, GitHub, Artifactory, Checkmarx, Mend, Vault, Jira, Confluence, Azure and more.

As an Sr. SRE in the DevEx team, you will be responsible for overseeing all CES services, with a keen focus on leading efforts for Self-hosted GitLab development in India. Your role will include the development, automation, monitoring, and support of DevEx services. To succeed in this position, you must possess strong, demonstrable SRE skills along with experience in scripting and programming languages.

What you will do :

• Minimum 8 years of relevant working experience as a Site Reliability Engineer.
• Experience as SRE for Deploying, Maintaining & administering Self-hosted Gitlab instances.
• Experience in containerization using Docker and Kubernetes administration experience, including installation, configuration, and troubleshooting is required.
• Automation : Adapt an automation approach to solving problems.
• Experience in scripting with any of Shell / Python is required.
• Experience in any configuration tools like Ansible / Chef / Puppet is required.
• Exposure to any programming language is a plus.
• Experience with Terraform
• Monitoring : Experience in any Monitoring tool like – Datadog / Prometheus / Grafana / Splunk is required.
• Hands-on experience with at least one of the cloud providers - AWS / Azure.
• Exposure to Vulnerability management tools, like Qualys is a plus.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues, including systems failures, connectivity problems, and performance bottlenecks.
• Create and maintain comprehensive knowledge bases for system documentation, including standard operating procedures, configurations, and troubleshooting guides, to support end-users' ability to use the systems effectively.
• Participate in on-call rotation.
• Responsible for upholding F5's Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

What You'll Bring :

Qualifications :

F5 Networks, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting [HIDDEN TEXT].

Skills Required

Chef, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Gitlab, Splunk, Puppet, Azure, Qualys, Python, Kubernetes, Aws