Sr. Platform & Reliability Engineer (Remote)

As a Sr. Platform & Reliability Engineer you will live, eat, and breathe the principles of availability, performance, reliability, and automation. You will be constantly presented with new challenges of sizable scope and variety. You will maintain a close partnership with development teams; helping them architect and implement their applications and environments via new and ground-breaking methods that break the traditional infrastructure model.

 

This position, under the direction of the Sr. Manager, Platform & Reliability Engineering, will be responsible for delivering knowledge and experience of the DevOps and SRE domains, including production support and cloud service delivery as well as experience of CI/CD.

 

Successful candidates will be humble, yet passionate and self-motivated. They will be strong leaders who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of identifying opportunities and creating efficiencies. We welcome those who see things differently, aren’t afraid to experiment, practice the fail fast/fail forward philosophy, believe that if you have to do it more than once-you automate, and are comfortable having healthy discussions/debates with teammates and peers to drive the aforementioned principles.

 

Reports To: Sr. Manager, Platform & Reliability Engineering

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Remain curious! Meaning you research and present new technology trends, influencing peers and leadership toward adoption, while always questioning the industry standards or status quo. 
• Collaborate closely with other Solution Centers to understand workload/technical requirements and guide them to the best leverage of infrastructure cloud services, optimizing for performance, cost and architectural flexibility
• You are never satisfied with the performance you are seeing and always know you can get a little bit more if you pull this lever. You consistently improve developer experience, availability, performance, and reliability via automation, observability, and related efficient tooling.
• Design, implement and roll out solutions that leverage integration of home-grown, open source and 3rd party solutions to provide a high-performing continuous delivery pipeline that fits with the development teams’ needs as well as Designer Brands’ long-term strategy
• Define reusable components, frameworks, common schemas, standards, and tools, influencing their usage across teams
• Assist in building world-class, multi-cloud capable, state-of-the-art products by:
  • Automating build and deployment processes
  • Automating verification, rollback, and scaling bi-directionally
  • Including A/B, Canary, Blue/Green deployment patterns
  • Building highly resilient cloud eco-systems capable of high availability and scale
  • Using Docker containers, Kubernetes as an orchestrator, Small Function Sets, or as full VMs with base images
  • Mastering Layer-7 Traffic Management Technologies as code for Efficient Delivery
  • Implementing observability as code (Metrics, Logging, Tracing, Alerting)
• Influence, Implement, and continuously refine operational processes, ensuring a balance between speed, agility, and adherence to policy 
• Utilize the combination of above-mentioned items to create a Next-Generation Platform for DBI Application Delivery
• Evolve infrastructure, server, deployment strategies and testing to support our goal of 100% up time and quick turnaround of deployments for the application development organization
• Mentor and provide technical oversight and guidance to team members and cross-functional partners, improving their skills, knowledge of our systems, and their ability to get things done!
• Possess the ability to troubleshoot technology you know, and technology you don’t know. Sometimes you will have to lead issues where you may not be versed on all the technology under the covers. You will need to get with your team to bring resources together to fill the gaps. 
• Participate in industry groups to gain visibility to trends and influence future direction