Site Reliability Engineer

The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is responsible for improving system reliability and resilience. This role focuses on building automation to reduce manual effort and prevent service-impacting incidents.

The SRE combines software and systems engineering to build and support large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems. This role ensures that critical platforms are available, reliable and able to support a fast rate of improvement. This role relies on monitoring platforms and is continually taking a holistic view of system health and performance.

The SRE will enhance and support cloud-based transformations, and is focused on pushing capabilities forward, staying ahead of customer needs and innovating for continuous improvement. The SRE provides operational support and engineering for multiple large-scale distributed software applications

JOB DUTIES

• Gathers and analyzes metrics from monitoring platforms to assist in performance tuning and fault tolerance.

• Partners with development teams to improve services through testing and release procedures.

• Participates in system design, platform management and capacity planning.

• Balances feature development speed and reliability with service-level objectives.

• Works closely with the incident response team and restoring service to normal operation.

• Understands debugging and applying troubleshooting skills.

• Investigates, blocks and rate-limits unwanted traffic.

• Utilizes monitoring systems and dashboards for proactive changes and alerting.

• Establishes continuous process improvement cycles where the process, performance, and supporting technologies are reviewed and enhanced where applicable.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

Typically requires a bachelor's degree and five (5) to seven (7) years of experience in a technology and/or software engineering role or an equivalent combination.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• Understanding of Kubernetes, containers, clusters and elastic scalability. • Expertise in SRE principles.

• Mindset of continually finding ways to drive scalability, stability and performance.

• Cloud Services experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Experience with API, service-based or microservice-based architecture.

• Proficiency in infrastructure, network, database, operating systems or security troubleshooting and remediation.

• Architecture-level knowledge of Windows and Linux and Infrastructure systems

• Experience with production deployment, monitoring and operational support fo enterprise-class applications (Dynatrace a plus).

• Experience working with Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment tools.

• Experience in performance diagnostics, capacity planning, performance architecture design, performance tuning and performance monitoring.

• A strong mix of software engineering and operational support skills.

• Knowledge of web technologies – HTTP, proxy, java, etc.

• Experience with Azure DevOps (ADO), Dynatrace, Prometheus, Terraform and Grafana.

COMPANY INFORMATION: Motion offers an excellent benefits package which includes options for healthcare coverage, 401(k), tuition reimbursement, vacation, sick, and holiday pay