Production Engineer II, Yahoo! Finance
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About the Role
The Yahoo Finance Production Engineering team is seeking experienced DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure engineers with expertise in GCP and AWS and a strong knowledge of Web applications. If you are passionate about working in a dynamic environment and have the required skills, we would love to have you on board with us.
About the Team
The Production Engineering (PE/SRE/DevOps) team is the power behind engineering goodness for all above. By writing, designing and implementing software and infrastructure to drive velocity, operability, reliability and performance, the PE team ensures continuous quality and compliance on production systems. We also build and maintain tools and platforms for engineer productivity and are at the forefront of tech initiatives of infrastructure modernization with cloud platforms and experimenting with new technologies.
We are all about:
Enabling a culture of ownership and excellence.
Engineering processes that are Automated and Agile.
Developing tools that are Self-Serve and (Re)Usable.
Our goal is to:
Efficiently bring products to market.
Proactively prevent defects from reaching customers.
Swiftly address and resolve any production issues.
If you believe in the above, come join us.
A Lot About You
We are looking for DevOps, Production Engineers (SRE's) who are problem solvers at heart, with solid ability to dig into code and own the reliability domain. As a member of the PE team, you will work with your developer partners and implement operability improvements, security, infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, monitoring and other system requirements. You will also work in development of tools, automation platforms and intelligent monitoring.
You are a self starter with a passion for solving difficult technical problems, from the network to the application stack
Like to relentlessly automate everything and anything at scale (tens of thousands of servers)
Want to make web applications and backend systems faster, more reliable, more efficient
Can handle fast-paced projects, enjoy having a broad and deep technical knowledge and are driven to iterate with new technologies
Feel comfortable with troubleshooting issues, incident management and doing on-call
Interested in cutting edge technologies, open source and taking products from design to production
Responsibilities
Manage production environment at vast scale and their associated infrastructure and tools
Support the operability roadmap to improve the availability, performance, scalability and efficiency of the services by implementing monitoring, automation, redundancy, capacity and business continuity planning
Work on challenging system and network problems to improve system performance and reliability
Implement and maintain monitoring to provide complete transparency to application and system state, history, trends and insights
Participation in on-call rotation - drive incident resolution, live troubleshooting and impact mitigation
Basic Qualifications
BS in Computer Science or equivalent degree
At least 5+ years experience in GCP, AWS and Software Development roles
At least 5+ Years of experience in web technologies like Apache, Jetty, Tomcat, node
At least 3+ years of experience in deploying and maintaining applications in Kubernetes.
Intermediate to advanced level of coding expertise in one or more language including Java, Python, o
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