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 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).
• Contribute towards building VCP as a product that meets our quality standards.
• Increase stability and reliability of VCP through automated testing and automation.
• Ensure customer satisfaction and product reliability.
• Improve the functionality and reliability of VCP.
• Translate customer ecosystem needs into engineering deliverables.
• Identify and resolve system/cluster-level issues.
• Combine individual stories into a cohesive system.
• Enhance system resilience to make VCP reliable, including bug fixing and structural improvements.
• Implement regression tests and structural fixes to resolve bugs.
• Manage predictable component lifecycle as an ambassador.
• Maintain the technical roadmap (application lifecycle management).
• Support feature and service requests from the field.
• Suggest and implement improvements to our 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 and qualification, ideally as part of CI/CD pipelines.
• Deep understanding of networking issues.
• Willingness to work remotely outside regular hours to build fail-safe systems, as an exception rather than the rule.

Required Qualifications & Experiences:

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