Site Reliability Engineer, OpenTable

• You love working in a small, agile, highly productive, and focused environment
• You enjoy building automation and self-service tools
• You are curious and like learning
• Picking up new languages or skills and sharing your findings with others is second nature to you
• You’re detail-oriented, enjoy writing code, and implement DevOps principles via automation
• You like to create repeatable processes that do not require human babysitting
• When asked, you always have an opinion or can quickly form one
• You seek to understand multiple perspectives and points of view and find the most optimal solution for everyone
• Minimum 5+ years of hands-on Linux experience (Ubuntu, CentOS, Etc.)
• Understanding of systems administration concepts and patterns
• Experience and proficiency with scripting languages such as GoLang, Python, Ruby, Perl, or Bash
• Working expertise with Kubernetes and Docker in on premise environment
• Experience in incident response and root cause analysis of service disruptions
• 3+ years experience with config management tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or SaltStack
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies, frameworks, and architectures, as well as participate in technical conversations with external stakeholders and your team
• Experience with operating messaging systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ in production

Desirable

• The Serving Platforms team is a DevOps organization integral to OpenTable’s Infrastructure Engineering group
• We are responsible for the entire lifecycle of the container stack, which powers the OpenTable business applications
• We are a group of engineers with skills in many areas, such as Kubernetes, Service Mesh, Puppet, Networking, Linux, DNS, and Kafka
• To provide a platform as a service, we automate our processes with tools written in-house and by 3rd party vendors. We value reliability, efficiency, and security while providing service to our customers, the OpenTable application engineering group
• We provide the following services across the company...
• Administering our container platform (Kubernetes/Istio)
• Config management infrastructure administration (Puppet, Ansible)
• SSL certificate management
• Vault and Consul
• CDN & Message Bus (Akamai, Kafka)
• Cloud service operation (AWS)
• Various security initiatives
• The Site Reliability Engineer II supports OpenTable’s development and production container infrastructure
• In this role, you will work with multiple engineering teams across the globe as an SME for Kubernetes and other technologies owned by the Serving Platforms team
• You will participate in high-impact projects, work closely with other team members, support team priorities, and help foster good communication with stakeholders
• You can expect to help build greenfield projects, mitigate infrastructure incidents, and participate in on-call rotation
• Our infrastructure is self-hosted in our data centers
• You will get maximum low-level exposure and experience