Senior Site Reliability Engineer (ServiceOps) at Wikimedia Foundation

You are responsible for:

• Design, implementation and maintenance of public facing infrastructure and services
• Use of configuration management and deployment tools
• Architectural design and operation at scale
• Monitoring of systems and services, optimization of performance and resource utilization
• Common operating system level tasks such as logging and backup / restore
• Cookbook / runbook implementation for common maintenance actions
• Incident response, diagnosis and follow-up on system outages or alerts
• Automation and streamlining of tasks as well as identifying process gaps
• Collaborating with a global and asynchronously communicating team (don't worry if you have never worked remotely, we'll help you get used to it)
• Mentoring peers in your areas of technical and operational strength

Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years experience in an SRE/Operations/DevOps role
• Experience with operating highly available infrastructure
• Experience with running applications and services at scale
• Proficient with shell and a programming language used in an SRE/Operations engineering context (Python, Go, Ruby, etc.)
• Comfortable with Open Source configuration management and orchestration tools (Puppet, Ansible, TerraForm etc.)
• Communicative technical English

Additionally, we'd love it if you have:

• Experience implementing containerization solutions (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience administering code collaboration software (Gitlab, Gerrit)
• Experience with package management for operating systems (Debian, etc)
• We are avid supporters (and users) of open source software; history of contributing to Open Source projects is valued
• Familiarity with RFC 2549
• Prior participation in the Wikimedia movement