Senior Site Reliability Engineer: Global Infra & Security

Ziff Davis, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Ookla, an Accenture company, is seeking a Platform and Site Reliability engineer to build and operate a massive-scale infrastructure powering billions of daily requests. You will focus on performance, scalability, observability, and security, and support critical application functionality across Ookla services.

Join a flexible environment that values individuality, collaboration, and talent, with on-call responsibilities and opportunities to influence security and reliability across global

Qualifications

• Experience building globally-distributed systems
• Strong understanding of security best practices
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation
• Branching and Merge based Source Code Configuration Management: Git, Github
• Configuration management systems such as Chef or Ansible
• Container-based architectures including Docker, Kubernetes
• Proficiency in one or more high level programming languages such as TypeScript, Go, Python, PHP, Ruby, Java, etc.
• Experience with AWS and other Cloud infrastructure platforms
• Comfort writing SQL queries and analyzing query performance
• Comfortable learning and working with new technologies in an ever-changing environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong time management skills and a self-driven work ethic

Responsibilities

• Maintaining a distributed, global ecosystem of thousands of cloud instances, containerized workflows, serverless applications, Linux servers, and associated infrastructure supporting billions of requests daily.
• Maintaining transactional database infrastructure using MySQL, PostgreSQL, and managed services such as RDS/Aurora.
• Supporting the use of NoSQL data storage engines such as DynamoDb and MongoDB.
• Building and supporting data stream processing with Kinesis or Kafka.
• Supporting data engineering and big data toolchains such as Spark.
• Supporting production systems in a 24x7x365 environment, including on-call responsibilities.
• Providing architectural and operational support to software engineers in a wide variety of focus areas.
• Support software and data engineering teams and guiding operational best practices.
• Implementation and oversight of security programs including vulnerability remediation, patch management, IDS/IPS, penetration testing, and interfacing with our corporate InfoSec team.
• Supporting the development to production code deploy pipeline for a range of production applications.
• Providing the tooling and guidance for the software and data engineering team to implement our monitoring and observability best practices.
• Assisting development teams with troubleshooting.

Skills

Globally distributed systems

Security best practices

Docker/Kubernetes

Git/GitHub

AWS

SQL

Adaptability

Communication

Time management

Multi-language programming (TS/Go/Py/"

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Chef

Ansible

Job description

Ookla, an Accenture company, is seeking a Platform and Site Reliability engineer to build and operate a massive-scale infrastructure powering billions of daily requests. You will focus on performance, scalability, observability, and security, and support critical application functionality across Ookla services.

Join a flexible environment that values individuality, collaboration, and talent, with on-call responsibilities and opportunities to influence security and reliability across global