Desired Skills and Experience
- Work with other SREs to build a comprehensive set of tools to automate and monitor our production infrastructure
- Work with Engineering to build resilient, operable, self-healing services
- Participate in reasonable on-call rotations with the rest of Engineering
- Managed groups of servers, preferably in AWS, at scale
- Reasonably deep knowledge of Linux and internet technologies
- Proficient in modern scripting languages like Python or Ruby
- Configuration management tools like Ansible or Salt
- Used advanced metrics to solve hard problems
- Experience managing Big Data or high-throughput distributed systems like Hadoop and Kafka
- Experience with continuous integration
- Contribution to open source projects
- An active interest in containerization technologies such as Docker and/or Kubernetes
- Acts like a team
- Avoids doing things twice
- Solves hard problems for tomorrow, not just for today
- Prefers fixing problems to complaining about them
- Investigates, considers and adopts new technology where it makes sense
- Doesn’t tolerate brilliant jerks