Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Position summary:

Sojern is looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer in Dublin to collaborate with Software Engineering teams located primarily in our Dublin office.  An ideal candidate would have extensive experience building cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud with Terraform, and have strong experience running and securing workloads at scale on Google’s Kubernetes Engine.

The Team:

Join our Site Reliability Engineering team and make an impact helping all Sojern’s engineering teams become as efficient and secure as possible.

You will be part of a high performing and versatile SRE team that handles many aspects of modern cloud software deployment.  We cooperate closely with Software Engineers to provide 3 main functions: improving the reliability of any service on our cloud, continually monitoring and advancing our security posture for these services, and increasing the efficiency of our deployment pipelines and infrastructure builds.

At Sojern you will work within our SRE team on team led initiatives, but also be a part of engineering pods that are working on revenue producing features, helping them get their code to production, and help it to perform at its best.

What you will do:

• Join the efforts of our Site Reliability Engineering team, establish best practices, and help evolve the SRE culture at Sojern
• Help our teams build and improve our Google Cloud infrastructure
• Collaborate closely with Software Engineers to get applications deployed, scaled properly, and to use the right tool for the job whether the solution should be serverless or containerized in a Kubernetes service
• Secure and instrument the Kubernetes cluster, the container, and the cloud resources utilized
• Enjoy a fast paced environment that challenges you to adapt to change quickly
• Focus on solving the problem with simple, concise, maintainable, transparent techniques
• Implement revenue producing and cost conserving features plus discover and contribute your own
• Ability to work independently, but also learn from and mentor other team members

What you bring to the table:

• 7+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer/Cloud Engineer/Software Engineer
• Extensive experience using cloud resources and building infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform using Terraform
• Extensive experience troubleshooting application runtime errors on Google Cloud
• Experience configuring and deploying containerized workloads on Kubernetes, securing and monitoring them, and troubleshooting the issues that may arise
• Experience building and troubleshooting containers
• Fluent in Python, Shell, or Go
• Excellent grasp of CS fundamentals, the Linux operating system, and common GNU/Linux tools
• BS/MS in CS/EE or equivalent experience.

Bonus Points:

• Google Cloud certification(s)
• Experience working closely with software engineering teams in an effort to accelerate output
• Experience contributing to or writing and enforcing SOC2 policies
• Experience with distributed systems and highly parallel processes
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines for and with containers
• Experience deploying gRPC services and making them available securely for public consumption
• Experience with Datadog, Codefresh, ArgoCD, or Jenkins

What we have for you:

We take a whole-person approach to create a Sojernista Experience that allows our people to thrive, not just as employees, but as humans. As an employee of Sojern, you would benefit from this in the following ways:

• Rewards & Recognition: Competitive compensation packages, stock options offered to every employee, Bonusly program to reward and recognize team wins and performance, plus employees can take up to 40 hours of paid time per year to volunteer and give back to the community 
• Flexibility: Flexi-Friday benefit, hybrid or remote work options for most roles, time-zone friendly work hours with async collaboration
• Connection: Team offsites planned annually, six employee resources groups, regular virtual and in office team building events, monthly company All Hands & leadership Q&As
• Wellbeing: PTO allowance to recharge, comprehensive healthcare options, paid parental leave (16 weeks for birthing parents; 12 weeks for non-birthing parents), retirement contributions and investment options (for applicable locations), travel benefits (hotel stay benefit & IATA membership), plus mental health, wellness & financial health resources
• Growth: Learni