Senior Site Reliability Engineer at mSurvey

Job description

This role is an integral part of our aggressive strategy for evolving mSurvey’s current computing infrastructure. As a Senior Linux System Administrator, you will solve problems of global scale distributed systems that must evolve with a focus on scale, efficiency and availability using your creative abilities and experience with robust systems design.

Key Responsibilities

• Component and framework designs supporting the virtualization and orchestration of mSurvey computing infrastructure, from conception and design through testing, deployment and operation
• Working on projects that make our network more efficient while sustaining service and component stability, performance and secure
• Working with our development QA and system QA teams to come up with regression tests and operational monitoring that cover new changes to our software
• Working with our cross business unit engineering teams to support migration designs and critical network rollouts.
• Identify and implement areas of improvement with current technologies
• Troubleshooting, investigating, and remediate service outages and issues. Act as a mentor and escalation point for junior members of the team
• Leading incident response teams as necessary to mitigate and deal with adverse events affecting our infrastructure
• Work closely with software development and project management teams to support application deployments
• Participate in balanced on-call rotation, after hours and weekends
• Understand, engineer, and maintain the design dependencies and integrity within client environments and service level expectations
• Performance, Capacity management, licensing, patching and working to maintain these within defined standards for specific clients/assets for applications installed with client environments
• Administers all production, development, test, and training server environments
• Works with IT and Security to ensure all servers and endpoints comply with relevant guidelines and regulations
• Administers all backup and disaster recovery systems
• Creating the appropriate documentation for our systems, including architecture and network diagrams and support procedures
• Define and prioritize service automation work in line with the wider infrastructure and corporate strategy
• Architect and design solutions that will live within Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform

Skills and Attributes

• 5+ years of experience developing on Linux
• Linux host system hypervisors including KVM
• Unix Guru: understanding of Unix/Linux from kernel to shell, file systems, client-server protocols, etc.
• Experience with configuration management / infrastructure as code tools like Ansible, Chef and Puppet
• Linux kernel development and/or performance tuning
• Strong SQL experience
• Data center utilization monitoring and COGs modeling
• Designing, implementing and deploying continuous build/deployment frameworks
• Site reliability engineering and/or work related including service performance
• Experience building scalable servers or distributed systems.
• Highly responsible, self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, able to work with little or no supervision.
• Extensive experience working on multiple projects at a time in a fast paced, results oriented environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Experience using deploying and utilizing one or more: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, OpenStack
• Experience implementing, designing, deploying: Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless (Lambda’s)
• Experience with monitoring alerting using technologies like: Prometheus, Sensu, Nagios, Kafka, Wavefront, BigPanda, DataDog, PagerDuty
• Individuals with a love for the African continent who want to be part of the team driving a business revolution