Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

• Location: Minnetonka Mills, MN
• Duration: 6 months
• Experience Required: 6–8 years
• Relevant Experience:
  • 5+ years of experience as an SRE
  • Strong knowledge of AWS and Kubernetes
  • 3+ years of Telemetry experience

Technical / Functional Skills

• Deep knowledge of platform engineering
• Strong experience with:
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Cloud platforms
• Act as a bridge between:
  • Platform Engineering
  • Application Engineering
  • Application SRE teams
• Strong expertise in Telemetry
• Proactively identify and eliminate single points of failure
• Establish and maintain application configuration standards
• Work with enterprise teams across:
  • Platform
  • Network
  • Storage
  • Infrastructure
• Collaborate with external vendor teams
• Support:
  • Upgrade planning
  • Platform migrations
  • Application configuration standards
  • High-availability (HA) initiatives
• Strong monitoring and observability experience with:
  • Grafana
  • Datadog
  • EAPM
  • Splunk

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain telemetry solutions for business applications
• Support engineering teams with telemetry and observability
• Maintain a close working relationship with Engineering Leaders and Service Directors
• Support a suite of applications and services
• Focus on reliability engineering and system availability
• Identify and eliminate single points of failure
• Monitor infrastructure capacity
• Perform infrastructure tuning and optimization
• Analyze telemetry and trend data
• Identify reliability and performance issues
• Define and measure:
  • SLA — Service Level Agreement
  • SLO — Service Level Objective
  • SLI — Service Level Indicator

Generic / Managerial Skills

• Comfortable interacting with all levels of an organization
• Strong vendor and third-party communication skills
• Architecture and technical experience
• Strong DevOps background
• Ability to work effectively in a matrix environment
• Proven ability to achieve goals collaboratively
• Strong influencing and stakeholder-management skills
• Experience with integration testing
• Experience with test automation practices
• Understanding of LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum) Framework
• Product-focused mindset

Key Skills / Keywords

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• AWS
• Kubernetes
• Platform Engineering
• Telemetry
• Observability
• High Availability
• Reliability Engineering
• Grafana
• Datadog
• Splunk
• EAPM
• DevOps
• Infrastructure Capacity & Tuning
• SLA / SLO / SLI
• Platform Migration
• Application Configuration
• Integration Testing
• Test Automation
• LeSS Framework