Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Operations Engineer

Targeted Talent; Vancouver, Winnipeg, Montreal; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

A global enterprise company is looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer. This role involves owning development projects, troubleshooting production issues, and mentoring peers. Candidates should have strong AWS experience, Java development skills, and an understanding of cloud infrastructure. This position starts remotely with potential relocation in the future. Competitive salary and great perks included.

Benefits

Great perks

Competitive salary

Qualifications

• Experience troubleshooting and mitigating issues in production environments.
• Experience developing with Java and working with AWS.
• Experience mentoring and influencing peers.

Responsibilities

• Own development projects providing technical guidance.
• Design and implement wargames to test operational response.
• Troubleshoot issues in production environments.

Skills

Strong Troubleshooting skills

AWS or Other cloud providers

Java development

Incident management

Distributed web applications

Automation of tasks

Understanding of data structures

Mentoring peers

Identifying improvements

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Python

ELK

Grafana

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer or Platform Operations Engineer for our client. This is a permanent position that is remote to start with later relocation to CalgaryorWinnipeg. Our client is a global enterprise company with a product that you've likely used.

You Will:

• Own development projects, providing technical guidance and delivering against the Platform & Service Operations Engineering roadmap.
• Designing and Implementing Wargames to test our operational response and identify areas of weakness in our platforms.
• Technical and Management Escalation point for Service Operations Centre (SOC) engineers and during major incidents.
• Troubleshooting, reproducing and mitigating issues in our production environments
• Mentoring other team members.
• Operate global AWS Platforms at scale

You Have:

• Evidence of Strong Troubleshooting, problem-solving and investigative skills
• Experience of AWS or Other cloud providers
• Experience developing in Java
• Major incident management on experience operating production platforms at scale
• Experience working with distributed web applications
• Experience Automating operational tasks / Processes using other languages
• Understanding of relational and/or NoSQL data structures
• Experience mentoring/influencing peers
• Identifying improvements, highlighting risks vs benefits, and translating them into technical requirements

Bonus:

• Worked with Ansible, Terraform, Python
• Experience working with Serverless / Containers
• Experience of ELK &/Or Graphite/Prometheus / Grafana
• Used Tracing Tools in production before
• Experience in Chaos Engineering / Failure Injection Testing
• Experience of working in an Agile Environment
• Experience working in a similar site reliability role

This role offers great perks and a competitive salary, please apply to the job posting if it matches your career path!