Desired Skills and Experience

  • Implements the system and processes that Cloud Engineers use to deploy their software into production.
  • Participates in rotating on-call duties and Disaster Recovery Tests.
  • Documents and demonstrates solutions to disseminate knowledge among the SRE team and throughout the engineering organization
  • Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art tools and techniques; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations
  • Proficiency with UNIX tools like SSH, grep, sed, awk, find, etc.
  • A solid understanding of networking and core Internet protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, SMTP, HTTP)
  • Ability to script in a shell language (Bash or POSIX Shell) and in an interpreted language (Ruby, Python, etc.)
  • Experience with public cloud providers (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, etc.)
  • Comfort with frequent, incremental code testing and deployment
  • Strong grasp of automation tools (Jenkins, Travis-CI, etc.)
  • Comfort with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders
  • Ability to remain calm under pressure.