Site Reliability Engineer

Company: Tential
Location: Baltimore
Posted on: February 25, 2021

Job Description:

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will play a key role in developing programmatic infrastructure to maintain and improve the CDN.--The ideal candidate is also excited to work with many different groups to cultivate an understanding of how systems are supposed to work - and from there, they are constantly learning and developing expertise on new tools, technologies and methodologies to make those systems faster, more cost effective and more resilient. If you have a passion for programmatic and reliable infrastructure development, you would probably fit in well here. We believe in automation, learning, challenging and bettering our peers and teams, and providing a quality platform to our developers.--The position is open to remote candidates but those in the Tysons area will be expected to work at our office several days a week once working conditions return to normal and the offices are open once again.Responsibilities:* Improve our CDN delivery:* Write VCL and Terraform code to deploy updates to our largest applications configured for our CDN* Work on improving the deploy and testing pipeline around the CDN infrastructure* Build RESTful APIs that provide self-service access to the CDN pipeline and product offerings* Interact with other teams and product owners to leverage our CDN capabilities for successful delivery of their initiatives* Mentoring other engineers:* Continuously mentor and teach the other engineers on the team* Continuous improvement of documentation and processes around Edge reliability* Perform detailed and valuable code reviews* Engage with teams across our company to define success for our technology and products.* Work with consumers of our systems to understand expectations around user experience.* Improve and establish best practice around our application and infrastructure monitoring.* Automate everything:* Containerizing applications with Docker.* Deploying via CI/CD pipeline and kubernetes.* Developing new solutions/APIs/services to reduce toil.* Research new tools to optimize cost, deployment speed and resource usage.Responsibility Breakdown:* 60% - CDN support, development and automation* 15% - Engaging with teams as subject matter expert for building efficient, reliable systems* 15% - Mentoring and support* 10% - Documentation (runbooks, architecture, internal and external technology blog posts, etc)Technologies:* Content Delivery Networks (Fastly, Varnish Configuration Language (VCL))* New Relic (APM, Infrastructure, Synthetics scripted browser)* Golang, Python, Bash* Docker, Kubernetes* Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services* Jenkins, Groovy, TerraformMinimum Qualifications:* Experience configuring a CDN * A desire to write and master Varnish Control Language* Strong knowledge of HTTP including standards, tooling and troubleshooting* Experience in a programming language (preferably Golang) and API development * Experience with auto-scaling and architecture of stateless applications* Familiar with deploying and monitoring applications with cloud compute or container hosting* Experience with Agile (Scrum), test-driven development, continuous integration and version control (git).* Self-starter that can operate in a remote-friendly environment.* 4+ years of experience in infrastructure/operations engineering or similar experience * Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

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