SRE – GCP

Responsibilities

• Contributing to our Infrastructure as Code. You will be coding missing modules in Python and Terraform, and maintain the existing ones.

• We want you to help us build a culture of continuous improvement of our processes, infrastructure, and practices around the infrastructure and operations.

• We want you to help us revolutionise our use of infrastructure with focus on testing and programming the infrastructure.

• You will be working with the engineers to trouble-shoot their deployment problems.

• You will be assisting the developers to learn the Infrastructure as Code framework, so that they can deploy their systems on their own.

• You will be working with the developers to identify the missing parts of our IaC

• You will be maintaining high standards of code and test quality for all the IaC modules.

Skills

You have a proven track of:

• Hands-on approach to the implementation of the infrastructure as code (IaC).

• Implements complex systems like it is second nature.

• Executes delivery of infrastructure improvements with focus on cost effectiveness and timely delivery. You have the ability to direct change through design and structure.

• Understands the needs of the development teams in terms of infrastructure and process point of view

• Familiar with all areas of the infrastructure

• Monitors the security aspect of infrastructure such as external and internal interfaces, networking issues, and common vector of attacks

• Works with SREs and developers via pair programming sessions.

• Independent troubleshooter — you are relentless in your search for solutions.

You can demonstrate the ability to:

• Interprets architectural decisions taken during the design of software systems and how they impact the shape of the infrastructure

• Reliably executes infrastructure changes needed to support the Continuous Delivery development process

• Cooperates with infrastructure engineers and software developers who are members of cross-functional delivery teams and are spread across multiple time zones

• Understands and implements logging and monitoring frameworks

• Understands code and development practices such as Test Driven Development,

  Behaviour Driven Development, and code reviews in Github and Gitlab

• Be able to do what you talk about – lead by example, outcomes oriented.

Knowledge

You have knowledge of

• Site reliability engineering principles

• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code and technologies that support it

• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker

• Experience working with Jinja2 and Gitlab CI

• Google Cloud Platform

• Programming in Python – you know how to read code, you can understand it and you can make changes

• Comfortable in Bash

• Knowledge of networking and cloud-based delivery models

It would be nice if you knew

• ERD, BPMN, and sequence diagrams- so that we can share architectural and process designs

• Modern testing techniques and frameworks for mainstream programming languages: Python, node.js, Go

• Forseti

• AWS