Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Role :  Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Location : Dallas, TX ( Hybrid role - in-office presence required )

Tile/ Role Synonyms : Sr Devops Engineer

Overview: 

Blue Yonder is a leading supply chain software company that provides intelligent solutions for businesses worldwide. Our mission is to help our clients optimize their supply chain operations through cutting-edge technology and data-driven insights. We are a leading AI-driven Global Supply Chain Solutions Software Product Company and one of Glassdoor’s “Best Places to Work”

Seeking a Senior engineer who is a developer who has a strong technical foundation with the additional ability to be hands-on with the broader engineering team as part of the development/deployment cycle, and deep knowledge of industry best practices, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience with the ability to implement them working with both the platform, and the product teams.

Our technical environment:

• Software: Java, GIT, Rest API, OAuth, Python, Powershell, Jenkins
• Application Architecture: Scalable, Resilient, event driven, secure cloud-native with microservices architecture
• Cloud Architecture: MS Azure
• Frameworks/Others: Kubernetes, Kafka, Elastic, Splunk, AppDynamics

Job Description

Key Objectives and Responsibilities:

• Ensure a well-running production environment through focus on reliability and holistic view of system health.
• Respond to technical business requirements around availability, performance, and planned maintenance activities to ensure a well-operating solution and SLA compliance.
• Directly own or participate in development of automation or other engineering deliverables to support reliability objectives
• Bring a strong engineering mindset and experience to achieve operational improvements, prevention of incidents, automation frameworks, self-service infrastructure, logging and metrics, and scorecards.
• Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating for continual improvement.
• Participate in Agile team activities such as backlog grooming, planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Keep up to date with technology, and continue to research latest trends in the industry.
• Partner with Development and Infra teams to improve services through rigor and defined testing/release procedures along with Roadmap influence with focus towards reliability
• Drive Root Cause program innovations, ensuring completeness and quality, and achieving corrective and preventative action outcomes for each, in a blameless fashion.

Required skills and qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in computer science or related discipline
• Strong experience of min 10 years’ experience developing, managing, or supporting distributed systems in a Cloud/IaaS environment, Azure preferred
• Expertise in Cloud Technologies and Cloud Delivery, CI/CD tools like Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jenkins, etc.
• Proficiency with several scripting / automation / OOL programming languages such as PowerShell, Python, Ruby, Groovy, Bash, and Java
• Experience working and managing virtual monitoring and visualization tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, Elastic
• Solid understanding of large-scale applications, Cloud Observability, monitoring and fault management, and understanding of Network Architectures
• Proven track record of researching, understanding, and effectively applying Scalability and High Availability principles.
• Experience coordinating between support and development teams to ensure effective delivery of monitoring services to the end-user.
• Experience implementing best practices and industry standards for operational monitoring aligned to ITIL.
• 5+ years’ experience working in a large, matrix–driven corporate environment desired.
• Agile experience through Scrum or other similar Sprint-based delivery approaches preferred.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, Analytical, problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced technical environment with increasing support demands and complexity.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and assigned tasks to meet deadlines and objectives.
• Ability to collaborate and openly share ideas with a team of like-minded professionals.

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The salary range for this position is $122,219 - $189,615

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