Site Reliability Engineer, CIQ
$150-175k
Enterprise-grade open source software infrastructure
Job no longer available
Enterprise-grade open source software infrastructure
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$150-175k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help everyone to continuously surpass their own expectations, goals, and be an asset to others.
Role
Who you are
- Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or similar).At least 5 years experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar experience as a DevOps or Software Engineer
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or Chef)
- Experience with containerization technologies, orchestration platforms (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and service mesh with microservice architecture
- Successful candidates will have a strong understanding of Linux/Unix systems, networking, and cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI)
- Proficiency in scripting and programming languages (e.g., Bash, Python, Go, Node, Java, or similar)
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools and SDLC practices
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex system issues
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively within a team and across departments
- A friendly, collaborative, humble, honest, and always striving to be better attitude
What the job involves
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify, design, and implement infrastructure and software solutions that improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems and applications. Leveraging DORA metrics for grading SLA vs uptime requirements
- Monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting system performance and reliability issues, and providing proactive solutions to prevent future occurrences
- Developing and maintaining documentation on system architecture, processes, and best practices for site reliability
- Implementing and maintaining automated monitoring and alerting tools to ensure timely detection and resolution of system issues
- Participating in on-call rotation to provide 24/7 support for critical systems and applications
- Developing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code and configuration management solutions to automate and standardize system provisioning, configuration, and deployment
- Conducting capacity planning and performance analysis to ensure systems can scale to meet demand
- Developing and implementing disaster recovery and business continuity plans to ensure system availability and data protection
- Continuously researching and staying up-to-date on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to improve site reliability processes and tools
- Contributing to a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing
Our take
Development of the Community Enterprise Linux Operating System (CentOS) was dropped by IBM’s RedHat in just 2020, leaving a gaping hole in the market. When CIQ’s founders swept in to offer a replacement, Rocky Linux, and a complementary support and servicing company CIQ, the demand reportedly skyrocketed - and, according to CIQ, it hasn’t subsided since.
That’s because the old CentOS was one of the principal OSs used by enterprise, cloud, VMs, and containers - Google, for example, was among one of its many enterprise users. Now Google has picked up Rocky Linux, and CIQ has consequently scooped up that major partnership too - and some healthy funding. It’s a fitting reward for a highly savvy play from the CIQ founders, picking up a tried-and-tested product that’s already achieved strong market penetration.
Besides Rocky Linux, CIQ has also developed cluster provisioning solution Warewulf, high performance computing (HPC) app containers tool Apptainer, and hybrid performance computing platform-as-a-Service Fuzzball. So it’s safe to say that CIQ has managed to skilfully manoeuvre its way into a pivotal position in the development of cutting edge high performance computing architecture. Now it will need to ensure it can capitalize on its lead.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
56% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2022
$26m
SERIES A
Jan 2021
$4m
SERIES A
Total funding: $30m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, vision insurance (80% employer/20% employee)
- Flexible paid time off
- Employee stock options
- Remote work, no required travel for most positions
Company HQ
North Valleys, Reno, NV
Leadership
Gregory Kurtzer
(Co-Founder & CEO)Spent over 16 years as a System Architect, Technical Lead, and Scientific Advisor at Berkeley Lab, before moving into a Corporate Advisor role at RStor. Alongside this, also founded and served as CEO at Sylabs.
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