Site Reliability Engineer

Kforce Inc; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team as a Site Reliability Engineer, where you will manage critical Cassandra and Elasticsearch clusters in a fully remote role. This position offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies, focusing on automation, performance tuning, and disaster recovery strategies. Collaborate with passionate engineers to design and deliver innovative solutions while ensuring system reliability and availability. If you're looking for a challenging role that allows you to grow your skills and make a significant impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401(k) Plan

Paid Time Off

Life and Disability Insurance

Qualifications

• Experience managing large critical Cassandra and Elasticsearch clusters.
• Proficient in automating maintenance tasks using Python and Puppet.

Responsibilities

• Manage and monitor Cassandra and Elasticsearch clusters for optimal performance.
• Automate build and maintenance tasks using scripts.

Skills

Cassandra Management

Elasticsearch Management

Automation (Python, Go, Shell)

Cloud Infrastructure (GCP)

Monitoring and Performance Tuning

Incident Response

Disaster Recovery Strategies

Ansible

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Puppet

Python

Go

Shell Scripting

Job description

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Base pay range

$40.00/hr - $50.00/hr

Responsibilities

Kforce has a client that is seeking a Fully Remote Site Reliability Engineer to join their team. This engineer will be working with a team of passionate engineers responsible for automation, scaling, tuning, and troubleshooting of Cassandra and Elasticsearch databases. They will also collaborate and work with a diverse group of engineers to design and deliver solutions. Responsibilities:

• Manage large critical Cassandra and Elasticsearch clusters
• Write scripts to automate all build and maintenance tasks using puppet and python/go/shell
• Monitor cluster availability, read/ write latencies, and other key performance metrics to proactively identify SLO misses and help mitigate issues
• Tune Cassandra and ES databases for optimizing throughput and read/write latencies
• On-call rotation support with rest of team for quick incident response
• Implement DR strategies, including backups and recovery techniques with minimal downtime
• Write and update runbooks and SOP's
• Proactively monitor and scale Elasticsearch/Cassandra clusters to handle growth in traffic
• Evaluate new technologies, tools, and software versions
  
  

Requirements

• Experience managing large Elasticsearch clusters in highly available 24x7 production environments
• Experience creating efficient design of Elasticsearch index, familiar with re-indexing and data mappings
• Experience automating the maintenance of Cassandra and ES using Python and puppet or similar tools
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure on GCP
• Experience in developing automation jobs using any one scripting languages (Python/go/shell) is a high plus
• Heavy Elastic Search and Cassandra experience
• Minimum of 1 1/2 years of experience
• Ability to quickly learn new concepts and technologies and adapt to changing needs
• Heavy Automation experience (Python, etc.)
• Ansible, Puppet, etc.
• Kubernetes is a plus
  
  

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Computers and Electronics Manufacturing and Retail

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