SRE Engineer

Skills

· Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineering teammates and Software Delivery teams to determine and implement cloud networking monitoring and infrastructure requirements · Ensure that networks and infrastructure are highly available · Develop methodologies to safely deploy and test network and infrastructure changes including customized tests and chaos testing. · Design create and deliver infrastructure code or services to improve the availability scalability latency and efficiency of our internal or customer-facing services · Troubleshooting and problem solving · Participate in code reviews · Design multi-region/multi-cloud fault-tolerant systems · Drive DevOps culture across the organization by providing consultancy to delivery teams · Provide support for operations and delivery teams to remediate production issues as appropriate · Build cloud-agnostic solutions that can be quickly deployed against a wide variety of cloud computing providers · Architect and develop custom software solutions · Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation

Description

The Site Reliability Engineer will be part of the Reliability & Performance team and will be responsible for maintaining the networking and infrastructure of the cloud platforms utilized to operate NBC’s Direct-to-Consumer platforms. The SRE will embrace a software-driven approach to operations, managing infrastructure as code, leveraging deployment pipelines, with a focus on automation, observability and resiliency.

Responsibilities

• · 3+ yrs. of experience in testing news website, subscription products, SEO, ads, metrics, video players (live/on-demand) & streaming media content on desktop & mobile platforms
• · 3+ yrs. of experience in software engineering - QE automation
• · Must be proficient in Java
• · Must have experience implementing automation frameworks – (Selenium WebDriver/Appium/TestNG/Junit)
• · Must have experience with performance testing tools to measure server & client-side metrics
• · Must have experience using Version control (GIT), SQL, CI/CD Tools (Jenkins), Build Tools (Maven, ANT, etc), Debugging Tools (Charles/Fiddler), Monitoring tools (New Relic), Agile Management Tool (JIRA), Test Management Tool (TestRail)
• · Any certification related to QA/Process/Automation/Performance Test

Educational Requirements

• · Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a relevant field
• · Minimum three (3) years of experience in a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering role
• · Experience with CDN delivery providers (Akamai, CloudFront, Fastly, Cloudfare)
• · Demonstrated experience with large scale 24/7 production environments
• · Ability to follow established processes and workflows to ensure that all work is completed following best practices
• · Configuration management and Infrastructure as Code (example: Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation)
• · CI/CD (Jenkins / Concourse / GoCD / GitLab)
• · Networking (Load Balancing, Routing, Security Groups, VPC, Subnetting)
• · Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, RedHat)
• · Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)
• · Cloud Platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• · Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios)
• · Logging (ELK, Splunk, Loki)
• · Scripting / System-Programming (Python, Go, Bash, Java, Node)

Experience Requirements

• · Experience with a digital media direct-to-consumer business highly preferred.
• · Certification in AWS, GCP, or Azure a plus
• · Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, comfortable communicating with technical and non-technical colleagues and executives
• · Ability to understand large complex software systems and their interdependencies