Sr. Staff Site Reliability Engineer - TDO

Company Description

At ServiceNow, our technology makes the world work for everyone, and our people make it possible. We move fast because the world can’t wait, and we innovate in ways no one else can for our customers and communities. By joining ServiceNow, you are part of an ambitious team of change makers who have a restless curiosity and a drive for ingenuity. We know that your best work happens when you live your best life and share your unique talents, so we do everything we can to make that possible. We dream big together, supporting each other to make our individual and collective dreams come true. The future is ours, and it starts with you. 

With more than 7,700+ customers, we serve approximately 85% of the Fortune 500, and we're proud to be one of FORTUNE's 100 Best Companies to Work For® and World's Most Admired Companies®.

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Job Description

Who is the TDO?
The Technical Duty Officer team has a mission to support and protect all of ServiceNow’s public services. This role is unique in the tech industry and allows the TDOs access and engagement with teams across ServiceNow. We leverage our broad technical experience to keep critical systems running through any event.
TDOs execute fixes during Internet outages, hardware failures, configuration mishaps, and natural disasters. We have a mandate to own these problems and see them through to resolution. Unlike traditional operations roles, we have the sole authority to make any necessary changes to fix issues and bring services back online.

The TDO is the last stop in escalation and always resolves the problem. Our organization hires subject matter experts in CloudOps, Development, Systems Engineering, and Networking. We provide leadership to a strong Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team. We attack problems from fine-grained Linux kernel configurations to large-scale capacity constraints.
The TDO provides solutions to ServiceNow’s planet-scale challenges.

What you get to do in this role:

• Leverage your extensive system, network, and database skills to provide technical leadership for a team of on-site engineers who are responsible for the availability and performance of ServiceNow's cloud platform.
• Coordinate all recovery efforts and Lead as the crisis manager during all major outages to provide rapid relief and resolution to any issue that could be impacting the operational environment.
• Develop new solutions and build requirements for new procedures and automations and verify that these new services meet our needs before they are released to the production environment.
• Drive organization-wide change (global) by participating in post-incident reviews, approving new architectural designs, and establishing strong relationships by working with many cross-functional teams.
• Make operations more effective by continually training and mentoring the team on all aspects of the operational environment.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role you have:

• 10+ years of experience in Linux enterprise service operations, SRE, or Systems Engineering.
• An in-depth understanding of the technology associated with operating a service or platform in the public or private cloud, including data centers, systems, networks, web applications, and relational databases.
• Meticulous analytical skills to identify and understand the root cause of critical issues.
• Excellent collaboration skills across diverse cross-functional teams
• Familiarity with Networking technologies such as routing, switching, DNS, load balancing, and CDN is good to have.
• Working knowledge of BASH, Python, Perl or other scripting languages.
• discipline, or similar work experience in an enterprise 24/7 production environment supporting critical, real-time applications.

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