RESPONSIBILITIES:Kforce has a client that is searching for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in San Francisco, California (CA).Overview:This is a fantastic opportunity to work closely with the client’s engineering team to improve the reliability and performance of their SaaS platform. They are looking for a seasoned and highly-skilled senior engineer to use their UNIX/Linux and Windows systems knowledge and systems administration background to help keep their systems healthy, monitored, and designed to scale. The candidate should be passionate about solving problems from the network level all the way through the application stack, with an eye to automating solutions to recurring issues.This is an exciting chance to hone and expand an already impressive skills set. The ideal candidate will be able to quickly asses, analyze, and resolve site incidents in a fast-paced environment. Having spent time as a developer or primarily an application-focused DevOps engineer is a plus. This opportunity also possesses a strong mentorship component to assist in the growth of more junior engineers. The position is based in the client’s San Francisco office.Primary Responsibilities: Serve as a point of contact for the availability, scalability, and performance of our enterprise SaaS platform Build and maintain automation systems to help the client manage their rapidly growing infrastructure Gain deep knowledge of our complex applications to develop a bird’s eye view of our platform Assist the client’s Software Engineering teams to ensure proper monitoring and metrics are being built into the applications Maintain and develop custom systems and tools to improve their ability to deploy, automate, and effectively monitor custom applications in a large-scale mostly Linux environment Assist in the rollout and deployment of new product features and installations to facilitate the client’s rapid iteration and constant growth REQUIREMENTS: 10+ years experience managing UNIX/Linux infrastructure Significant prior experience in an Internet-facing technical operations role with high uptime requirements Strong and demonstrated ability to successfully work with Cloud architectures (the client is primarily an AWS shop) Strong personal and professional initiative with a focus on the success of the team and organization Self-starter who is able to take ownership of technical issues and be a productive member in the on-call rotation and certain off-hours shifts Strong troubleshooting skills that span systems, network, and applications Experience with web-based Java/J2EE architectures Strong scripting ability in Bash, Ruby, Perl and/or Python

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