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What do NASA and emerging space companies have in common with COVID vaccine R&D teams or with Roblox and the Metaverse? 

The answer is data, -- all fast moving, fast growing industries rely on data for a competitive edge in their industries. And the most advanced companies are realizing the full data advantage by partnering with Pure Storage. Pure’s vision is to redefine the storage experience and empower innovators by simplifying how people consume and interact with data. With 11,000+ customers including 58% of the Fortune 500, we’ve only scratched the surface of our ambitions. 

Pure is blazing trails and setting records:

• For ten straight years, Gartner has named Pure a leader in the Magic Quadrant 
• Our customer-first culture and unwavering commitment to innovation have earned us a certified Net Promoter Score in the top 1% of B2B companies globally
• Industry analysts and press applaud Pure’s leadership across these dimensions
• And, our 5,000+ employees are emboldened to make Pure a faster, stronger, smarter company as we go

If you, like us, say “bring it on” to exciting challenges that change the world, we have endless opportunities where you can make your mark.

In today's cloud-centric world, the reliability of cloud platforms underpins everything. Ensuring the heartbeat of these systems is crucial.  At the frontier of cloud technology, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) works diligently to bolster the availability of our cloud infrastructure and services. As we pivot to a cloud-first strategy, Pure Storage seeks Site Reliability Engineers, with the ability to play a leading role in our cloud-focused transformation across the broader engineering organization. This team will be passionate about ensuring impeccable uptime, seamless scalability, observability, and unmatched availability.

This position is based at our corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California. This is a software development position, in a team that is distributed across US and Europe.

 

SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE...

• Become part of our nascent SRE team across US and Europe
• Responsible for uptime and reliability of our core services and infrastructure, including proactive monitoring and incident response/ resolution
• Maintain 24x7 production environment with a high level of service availability
• Manage operational issues, drive root cause analysis and resolution of production issues
• Explore and implement new cloud and high availability (HA) technologies and tools
• Partner with development teams in defining and implementing improvements in services architecture
• Implement automation and orchestration of manual processes required to operate and deploy cloud services
• Service health monitoring, observability, collecting & reporting metrics, alerting
• Interface with engineering to establish a support structure, with runbooks to ensure uptime and customer success

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BRING TO THIS ROLE...

• BS or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field and equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years of experience as SRE or DevOps to support globally distributed SaaS services
• Proven ability to design and operate commercially successful cloud services with high availability and well defined SLA
• Experience with IaC, automation & configuration management using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, CloudFormation or ARM templates
• Experience with virtualization, containers and management systems such as Kubernetes
• Experience setting up monitoring of production services using ELK or something similar
• Practical experience setting up support processes using tools such as PagerDuty
• Deep understanding of the software delivery process and what it takes to “go live”
• In-depth knowledge of a public cloud platform such as AWS, Azure or GCP is a must
• You will be based in Santa Clara, California, United States. As this is an office-centric role, you are expected to be present in the office for 4 days a week. As outlined in Pure's Hybrid Work Policy, there will be variations over periods of time, depending on business need.

The annual base salary range is: $182,000– $273,000. Salary ranges are determined based on role, level and location. For positions open to candidates in multiple geographical locations, the base salary range is reflective of the labor market across the applicable locations. 

This role may be eligible for incentive pay and/or equity.