Site Reliability Engineer

TechDigital Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to handle cloud infrastructure and automation tasks. This role demands strong scripting skills, knowledge of virtualization, and AWS operations, alongside experience in disaster recovery and performance tuning.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer.
• Hands-on experience with automation tools and scripting, particularly in Python.
• Experience with AWS and virtualization platforms.

Responsibilities

• Periodic updates and maintenance of Windows-based golden images.
• Patching and disaster recovery planning.
• Automate VM image building for cloud platforms.

Skills

Virtualization

Automation

Python

Networking

Scripting

Tools

Ansible

Chef

Terraform

AWS

VMware

OpenStack

Job description

Some things to note on the types of skills and candidates we need:

• Senior person. No less than 4 years of experience.
• Has experience with virtualization
• Hands-on experience with VMware or a similar vendor or product/very beneficial
• How to manage a large fleet/virtual machines/what building blocks
• Must know the basics of networking
• Must have experience with automation
• Strength with Python as a scripting language
• Ansible, Chef, Terraform – having experience with 1 scripting language/automation tools
• Basic admin skills – mostly in the Windows world, but should have some Linux as well. They run a lot of things on Windows/Biz Tech – but they are shifting towards Linux – (70% Windows, 30% Linux)
• Remote access technology protocols are a plus

Job Description:
Site Reliability Engineer
Periodic updates and maintenance of Windows-based golden image for ESX & AWS.

• Patching of software, systems, appliances etc, through scripting or manual process
• Disaster recovery planning and testing of various products and distributed systems
• Deployment and maintenance of infrastructure and applications in AWS using IaC
• Automate the process of building VM images for ESX, AWS, OpenStack
• Adoption of tooling and best practices in the space of on-prem and public cloud infrastructure and application management
• Telemetry improvements (logging, monitoring,etc) for various systems and applications
• Performance tuning/optimization for systems and applications
• Escalated user support

Skills required

• Scripting (powershell,python)
• Automation tools such as Ansible, Chef, Terraform, Packer
• A virtualization platform such as ESXi or OpenStack
• AWS operations (EC2, S3, lambda, ELB)
• Windows administration and basic navigation skills with Linux
• Basic networking concepts and troubleshooting
• Basic knowledge of security concepts and protocols such as HTTPS, TLS, etc.
• General understanding of distributed systems
• Prior experience or working knowledge of remote access protocols such as RDP or Citrix will be a plus