Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Our client is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of semiconductor chip-making equipment. A majority of the world’s microchips receive their critical lithographic patterning in machines made by this organisation. In addition, they produce metrology tools and advanced applications to analyze and optimize the performance of the customer production process.

Job Mission

Troubleshoot short-term problems and translate, develop into structural improvements on our distributed data and compute platform infrastructure. Be accurate, be precise and help drive up the aggregate availability of the installs of these distributed computing systems in Korea, Taiwan, Israel, China and the US. Be part of the computing platform that is one of the main pillars under the production of the next-generation microchips for companies like Apple, Samsung, and others.

Responsibilities:

• Create awareness in other teams about methods and procedures we use to help them prevent repetitive help requests.
• Help application developers understand the infrastructure, cluster, and system.
• Understand and explain how the system fits into the customer’s ecosystem.
• Share knowledge and mindset with other teams (development and infrastructure engineers).
• Collaborate on building VCP as a product that meets quality standards.
• Increase stability and reliability of VCP through automated testing and automation.
• Enhance customer satisfaction and product reliability.
• Improve the functionality and reliability of VCP.
• Translate customer ecosystem needs into engineering deliverables.
• Identify and resolve system and cluster issues.
• Combine individual stories into a comprehensive solution.
• Make VCP reliable by improving system resilience, including bug fixes and structural improvements.
• Address bugs in a sustainable manner by implementing regression tests and structural fixes.
• Manage predictable component lifecycle as an ambassador.
• Maintain the technical roadmap and application lifecycle management.
• Support feature and service requests from the field.
• Suggest and implement improvements to technical solutions and workflows in collaboration with your team and stakeholders.

Highly valued qualifications & experiences:

• Experience with DC/OS.
• Experience with zero-downtime technology introduction, including data migration.
• Passion for automated testing, qualification, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Deep understanding of networking issues.
• Availability to work remotely outside regular hours when necessary to build fail-safe systems.

Required qualifications & experiences:

• Practical experience with distributed computing systems.
• Experience with build and release tools like Maven, Nexus, Bamboo, Github.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python).
• Experience with Ansible.
• Expertise in Linux.