Site Reliability Engineer

Basic requirement

At Sisar, were searching for a competent applicant who is persistent and self-driven. Along with teamwork, the candidate should have the capacity for independent work and be a good cultural fit for the company.

About us

We are a pioneering company dedicated to offering options that will revolutionize how businesses boost efficiency. Working with us is a terrific and comprehensive experience for all stakeholders because we offer a wide range of cutting-edge solutions and technology-driven services.

Our vision

We have been in the Netherlands for the last 7 years and are now expanding to the UK and India. Officially, were going global. We take great pride in hiring the brightest minds from around the world and having a multinational team.

Requirements

As an SRE you will:

• Be on a PagerDuty rotation to respond to availability incidents and provide support for service engineers with customer incidents.
  
• Use your on-call shift to prevent incidents from happening.
  
• Run our infrastructure with Terraform and Kubernetes.
  
• Use monitoring and alerting to alert on symptoms not outages.
  
• Document every action so that your findings turn into repeatable actions (playbooks) and then into automation.
  
• Improve the deployment process--we want to make it as boring as possible.
  
• Design, build and maintain core infrastructure pieces that allow DSX to scale to support hundreds and then thousands of concurrent users.
  
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.
  
• Plan the growth of the DSX infrastructure.
  

You may be a fit for this role if you:

• Think about systems, and particularly edge cases and failure modes.
  
• Know your way around Linux and the Unix .
  
• Have strong programming skills--preferably Nodejs, but it could be Python, Go, .NET or even Ruby.
  
• Have an urge to collaborate and communicate asynchronously.
  
• Have an urge to document all the things so you dont need to learn the same thing twice.
  
• Have an enthusiastic, go-for-it attitude. When you see something broken, you cant help but fix it.
  
• Have an urge for delivering quickly and iterating fast.
  
• Have experience with Nginx, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform.
  
• Have good experience with GitHub.
  
• Coding infrastructure automation with GitHub Actions and Terraform.
  
• Improving our Prometheus Monitoring or building new Metrics.
  
• Helping to deploy new versions of DSX.
  
• Helping to plan, prepare for, and execute the migration of DSX from virtual machines running on Azure to cloud-native container-based deployments with Kubernetes using Azure Kubernetes Service.
  

Skills:

• General knowledge of 4 of the following areas of technical expertise with deep knowledge in 1 area:
  
• Implement ""Infrastructure as Code"" using Terraform and GitHub CI/CD for automation.
  
• Load balancing of the application including Proxies and CDN.
  
• Kubernetes and containerising our system.
  
• Administering a high-availability MSSQL cluster.
  
• Monitoring and Metrics in Prometheus and Grafana, and their integrations with Slack/PagerDuty.
  
• Logging infrastructure.
  
• Backend storage management and scaling.
  
• Disaster Recovery and High Availability strategy.
  
• Contributing to code for services and automation.
  

Good To Have:

• Provide emergency response either by being on-call or by reacting to symptoms according to monitoring and escalation when needed.
  
• Propose ideas and solutions within the infrastructure team to reduce the workload by automation.
  
• Plan, design and execute solutions within the team to reach specific, agreed-upon, goals.
  
• Plan and execute configuration change operations both at the application and the infrastructure level.
  
• Actively look for opportunities to improve the availability and performance of the system by applying the learnings from monitoring and observation.
  
• Azure Data Factory.
  
• Azure DevOps.
  
• Javascript.
  

Benefits

• Travel allowance
  

• An open culture where you can express your views
  

• Excellent Work life balance
  

• Visa sponsorship
  

• A great group of like-minded colleagues
  

• Relocation support
  
  

As an SRE you will: Be on a PagerDuty rotation to respond to availability incidents and provide support for service engineers with customer incidents. Use your on-call shift to prevent incidents from happening. Run our infrastructure with Terraform and Kubernetes. Use monitoring and alerting to alert on symptoms not outages. Document every action so that your findings turn into repeatable actions (playbooks) and then into automation. Improve the deployment process--we want to make it as boring as possible. Design, build and maintain core infrastructure pieces that allow DSX to scale to support hundreds and then thousands of concurrent users. Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack. Plan the growth of the DSX infrastructure. You may be a fit for this role if you: Think about systems, and particularly edge cases and failure modes. Know your way around Linux and the Unix Shell. Have strong programming skills--preferably Nodejs, but it could be Python, Go, .NET or even Ruby. Have an urge to collaborate and communicate asynchronously. Have an urge to document all the things so you don't need to learn the same thing twice. Have an enthusiastic, go-for-it attitude. When you see something broken, you can't help but fix it. Have an urge for delivering quickly and iterating fast. Have experience with Nginx, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform. Have good experience with GitHub. Projects you could work on Coding infrastructure automation with GitHub Actions and Terraform. Improving our Prometheus Monitoring or building new Metrics. Helping to deploy new versions of DSX. Helping to plan, prepare for, and execute the migration of DSX from virtual machines running on Azure to cloud-native container-based deployments with Kubernetes using Azure Kubernetes Service. Skills: General knowledge of 4 of the following areas of technical expertise with deep knowledge in 1 area: Implement ""Infrastructure as Code"" using Terraform and GitHub CI/CD for automation. Load balancing of the application including Proxies and CDN. Kubernetes and containerising our system. Administering a high-availability MSSQL cluster. Monitoring and Metrics in Prometheus and Grafana, and their integrations with Slack/PagerDuty. Logging infrastructure. Backend storage management and scaling. Disaster Recovery and High Availability strategy. Contributing to code for services and automation. Good To Have: Provide emergency response either by being on-call or by reacting to symptoms according to monitoring and escalation when needed. Propose ideas and solutions within the infrastructure team to reduce the workload by automation. Plan, design and execute solutions within the team to reach specific, agreed-upon, goals. Plan and execute configuration change operations both at the application and the infrastructure level. Actively look for opportunities to improve the availability and performance of the system by applying the learnings from monitoring and observation. Azure Data Factory. Azure DevOps. Javascript.