Site Reliability Engineer at Renmoney

The Position

• We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer who will maintain services once live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health with a focus on business activities and continuously evaluating cost and waste

Responsibilities

• Ensuring availability of UAT and production applications and foster capacity planning for production infrastructures. Monitoring of existing systems/applications using monitoring tools
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services from inception and design, through deployment, operations
• Troubleshooting problems that span systems, databases, storage, network, and codes while suggesting/implementing security measures for the protection of systems, networks, and information
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
• Minimize and mitigate the risk of reliability-related failures pertaining to systems availability, performance, and correctness.
• Ensuring investigation into warnings and alerts from monitoring systems, Incident response, diagnosis, and follow-up on system outages
• Documentation of process and procedure manuals.

Academic Qualification(s)

• B.Sc. / HND Degree in Computer Science or Information technology-related course
• ITIL Foundation will be an added advantage.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar role
• Working knowledge of databases and SQL
• Comfortable with Open-Source configuration management and orchestration tools (chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, etc.)
• Knowledge of Docker, Docker swamp, Fargate, and Kubernetes
• Experience with caching systems such as Kafka and Redis
• Working experience with building monitoring tools and setting measurement metrics
• Proficiency with shell and a programming language used in an SRE/Operations engineering context (Python, Go, Ruby, etc.) will be an added advantage
• Experience with operating in a high availability environment
• Excellent communication skills with a high level of emotional intelligence
• Experience in working with remote teams
• Server Administration skills (Redhat, Windows, CentOs, Ubuntu)

Preferred:

• Hands-on experience working with AWS Fargate.
• Experience with Cloud infrastructure services like AWS, Azure, and GCS

We are the place for you, if:

• You are excited about technology and the future, and you are looking for a place to learn and grow.
• You care a lot about detail and pride yourself in impeccable execution.
• You can collect and analyze lots of data and feed in just the right amount of intuition to make sound decisions.
• You are ready to work extremely hard, at a fast pace, to achieve audacious goals.
• You love to speak up, ask questions, and are comfortable challenging anyone or any idea.

This job is perfect for you if you:

• Are creative and an out-of-the-box thinker
• Have excellent execution skills and are passionate about achieving excellence
• Enjoy analytical thinking and have problem-solving capabilities
• Enjoy collaborating with others, building relationships
• Have a high level of emotional intelligence
• Have excellent communication and delivery skill.

You will not enjoy this job if you:

• Work best in structured, hierarchical settings
• Require clear, pre-set deliverables and constant direction
• Are not used to working in/with a large team.

What is in it for you

• You will receive competitive compensation and work with amazing people.
• You will work in a beautiful environment with a flat structure and solve complex real-world challenges.