Senior SRE & Automation Lead (DevOps)

Roberts Recruiting, LLC; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic tech company in Boston is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to lead its infrastructure engineering team. The role involves designing and maintaining high-performance systems, mentoring team members, and enhancing developer productivity through automation. Ideal candidates will have experience with AWS, a solid understanding of production environments, and a successful track record in leading teams. This role is essential for the company's growth towards $1B.

Qualifications

• Solid experience with distributed SaaS or eCommerce systems.
• Ability to lead small-to-medium infrastructure teams.
• Strong appreciation for production environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain infrastructure.
• Manage backlog and mentor other SREs.
• Debug complex stack problems.
• Monitor system performance and costs.
• Participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Collaboration

Automation

Unix command line

Leadership

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL

Redis

Terraform

Ruby on Rails

Job description

We’re looking for a top-notch, hands-on SRE to lead our small and talented infrastructure engineering team and help us elevate our game when it comes to designing, building and operating high-performance and highly-available systems.We’re backed by Insight Venture Partners and Iconiq Capital, we’re on a path to $1B in 2019, and we’ll get there - even more surely if you come help us.

Every engineer is responsible for the software they build, and SREs play a critical part in providing the tools, practices, and expertise to support them succeed.

Our production systems are hosted in AWS datacenters running a large Ruby on Rails web application and a handful of smaller services in Ruby, Node.js, and Java. We currently deploy 3-5 times a day. Our systems are stable and fire drills are rare. Technologies we’re currently using include:

• Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELB, S3, RDS, ElastiCache) and Ubuntu Linux
• Chef, ServerSpec, Terraform, NewRelic, DataDog, Sumo Logic and Test Kitchen

In this mission-critical role, you would:

• Design, build, and maintain the core infrastructure of our product
• Actively manage the backlog for our infrastructure team and work closely with other SREs on the team to provide coaching and mentorship
• Help us increase developer productivity and get to true continuous delivery
• Develop operational and security standards and champion operational excellence and secure coding practices
• Partner with engineering teams closely to educate and consult
• Participate in solution design for new features, products, systems and tooling
• Debug complex problems across the whole stack
• Continually monitor application/system performance and costs, generate actionable insights and either implement or advocate for them
• Participate in on-call rotations, along with every member of the engineering team
• Ruthlessly eliminate repetitive manual tasks and recurring errors
• Ensure we are always employing best-of-breed tooling for all our infrastructure and automation needs
• Collaboratively plot course for the maturing and growth of our infrastructure
• Participate (and sometimes run point) in handling production incidents
• Work closely with engineering teams to conduct root cause analysis for production incidents, and evolve infrastructure and tooling.

This role might be that rare opportunity if you:

• Thrive in a highly collaborative, no red-tape, rapid-growth environment
• Love building tooling and infrastructure to help developers be more productive
• Love eliminating repetitive manual tasks through automation
• Have a healthy appreciation of what it means to work in production
• Have solid Unix command line and systems chops
• Have experience with substantial, distributed SaaS or eCommerce systems
• Can point to a solid track record of success leading small-to-medium infrastructure teams
• Have vision and well-informed opinions about how to build infrastructure for a high-growth, technology-driven company that’s headed towards the $1B mark