Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Opportunity for Working Remotely

Position Overview ----------------- You will work on a team of talented engineers responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning. VMware is rapidly developing and expanding its portfolio of large-scale cloud applications across all product lines, including app/desktop virtualisation, networking. These applications must deliver enterprise-grade performance, reliability, and integration.This requires excellent architecture and a dev-ops mindset in software development, operations, and site reliability engineering. Roles/Responsibilities ----------------------- - Manage web scale systems to demanding availability targets (99.99%+) - Drive strong engineering, QA, and technical operations - Analyse and identify opportunities for continuous improvement and partner with engineering and operations team to constantly improve services - Engage with product and engineering to drive and improve the whole lifecycle of operational readiness - from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement proactively. - Write scripts, monitors, self-healing/auto remediation tools and automate the processes. - Build and maintain the tools re-use in cloud and on-premise systems automation. - Maintain business continuity by identifying and driving opportunities to make systems highly resilient and human-free. - Closely work with software engineering team to ensure accurate monitoring and metrics are being built into applications before going to production. - Maintain up-to-date documentation on deployments, processes, and standard operating procedures/run-books with a goal minimize runbooks by automation. - Even after self-healing and automation done by you – if complex issues arise, get involved with troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of issues across the stacks – hardware, software, database, network and so on. - Participate in shared on-call schedule [follow-the-sun model] managed across SRE & Engineering. - Be an evangelist and promote lean-ops culture by applying self-service, self-healing and automation. - Improve observability of software by implementing right monitoring, tracing and logging. What You Need To Succeed(Preferred Qualifications) -------------------------------------------------- - 5+ years of experience in product engineering organization is critical. - You have a good understanding of TCP/IP and networking fundamentals. - Strong analytical skills with a data driven approach to solving problems - Experience designing for and dealing with a large production environment. - A Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science engineering or related. - Programming (Python and Bash are our preferred scripting/shell languages) and automation skills. - Troubleshooting and system engineering exposure in Linux production environments. Experience with Linux, Internet Protocols, and Large-Scale Operations. - Experience with CI/CD tooling: Jenkins, Spinnaker, GitLab runners, Azure DevOps, etc. - Experience with designing, deploying and maintaining monitoring solutions such as Splunk,Prometheus,etc.. - Great communication, interpersonal, and teamwork skills. - Ability to work independently and own problem statements end-to-end. Good to have Skills:- --------------------- - Certifications: CKA/CKAD, AWS,GCP,Azure. - Experience in writing monitoring and logging Scripts,Dashboards in the tools(Splunk,Catchpoint,AppDynamics,Wavefront,Logzio,Datadog) - Experience in writing good splunk,wavefront query language. - Experience with relational databases such as MySQL, Postgres, and document stores such as MongoDB. - Experience deploying applications in containers using Docker,helm and Kubernetes. - Strong intuition about system design, robustness, and scalability. - Strong Experience with Linux. At VMware, you will be immersed in an exceptional work environment that is recognized throughout the world on Best Companies lists. You will also be surrounded by colleagues who are committed to helping each other grow through our unique Check-In approach where ongoing feedback flows freely. Category : Engineering and Technology Subcategory: Software Engineering Experience: Manager and Professional Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time Posted Date: 2022-12-09 VMware Company Overview: At VMware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlessly. Our cloud, mobility, and security software form a flexible, consistent digital foundation for securely delivering the apps, services and experiences that are transforming business innovation around the globe. 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