Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Kentik

• 5+ years of experience in cloud-based Systems Administration, IT and/or SRE related projects
• Strong experience with public cloud, container and orchestration technologies including AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, and Docker
• Solid programming and automation skills (Bash, Python, Go) including experience working with configuration management (infrastructure as code) platforms such as Terraform, Ansible, and Puppet
• Experience working with *nix system command line (e.g. ssh, grep, awk)
• Detailed understanding of major internet protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS)
• Networking administration experience: concepts such as routing, firewalls (iptables), peering sound familiar
• A passion for documenting code, processes, and infrastructure in runbooks and wikis
• Worked with metrics monitoring solutions such as grafana, prometheus, telegraf, and OpenTelemetry
• Experience creating and managing tickets with third party vendors and owning cloud vendor partner relationships
• Experience optimizing CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions, Earthly and Jenkins
• Exposure to PagerDuty Integrations
• What we offer

Desirable

• Kentik is looking for a Senior level Site Reliability Engineer (Cloud) to join our Product Engineering team. This person will help build and maintain our Synthetics and Cloud product lines. These products have multiple applications deployed in various cloud providers all over the world, and we manage these cloud applications using observability tooling, automated build processes, and adherence to configuration as code best practices
• We’re looking for an experienced engineer who will work with engineering teams across the company to help grow our hardware and software infrastructure. We operate a well-organized, well-instrumented platform, and offer enormous opportunities for employee growth
• Ensure our real-time, scalable, infrastructure is set up for growth and working efficiently. Our infrastructure runs on our own hardware, across multiple locations as well as all major cloud vendors
• Work on tools and processes to better monitor our platform as well as ensuring its stability through our rapid growth
• Deep-dive into diverse topics, from firewalls and IP routing, to database replication strategies or automating build processes
• Collaborate with engineering and infrastructure teams on finding solutions from an operational perspective
• Assist with expanding our cloud deployments across the major cloud providers
• Contribute code, code reviews and tools or patches to all kinds of existing code
• Write design documents or collaborate on colleagues’ docs to introduce new features or changes into our infrastructure
• Provide valuable feedback on team goals, projects, and processes. We believe in continuously improving our team