Principal Site Reliability Engineer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence applications, network, information security, database, operating systems, or web technologies for highly complex business and technical needs across multiple groups.
• Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking.
• Translate advanced technology experience, an in-depth knowledge of the organizations tactical and strategic business objectives, the enterprise technological environment, the organization structure, and strategic technological opportunities and requirements into technical engineering solutions.
• Provide vision, direction and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions.
• Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommend innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization.
• Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership.
• Lead proof of concepts and prototyping.
• Lead execution of critical/complex project deliverables.
• Ability to dynamically engage and attend high impact production incidents, troubleshoot to resolution, and provide immediate incident analysis both written and spoken.

Requirements

• 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
• 7+ years of alarm scripting or alerting tool experience.
• 3+ years of experience setting up distributed tracing across an internet topology for full health check and with the ability to pinpoint problem source.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate on all levels of the organization.

Nice to Have

• Deep understanding of the network stack, operating system stack and middleware to be utilized for troubleshooting production incidents.
• Deep understanding of CI / CD Practices and tooling.
• Experience with container and container orchestration technologies (Ex: Kubernetes, OCP etc.).
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (Ex: Python, Bash).
• Extensive experience with SRE Principles, implementing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets aligned with business objectives.
• Experience with hands-on development of Splunk dashboards.
• Experienced troubleshooting Unix, Linux, and cloud environments.
• Experience with Log analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to lead proof of concepts and industry presentations.
• Experience with mentorship, training, documenting, and building team skill sets.

Qualifications

• Educational background or certifications are not explicitly specified but are implied through experience requirements.

Benefits & Perks

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule.
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position.