Site Reliability Engineer
Plano, Texas
Job Description:
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Job Description:
This job is responsible for partnering with engineering and technology teams to implement measures as prescribed by lead/senior SRE engineers. Key responsibilities include ensuring appropriate instrumentation, tooling, ticketing, alerting and on call routines are in place for key services, identifying root causes of issues through production triage efforts, and suggesting code enhancements to technology teams to automate services and improve reliability and efficiency. Job expectations include using software development skills to improve efficiency and to address gaps in reliability.
Overview:
This position is for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who provides 24x7 application support for Crowdstrike Falcon on Linux and Windows operating systems. The candidate should also have experience in diagnosing performance related issues and escalating them to a third-party vendor for review and remediation. It is preferable that the candidate have experience in a large corporation and 5+ years of experience in supporting enterprise level applications. This role also requires working with other enterprise level business and administrative groups and being able to communicate (spoken/written) effectively.
Responsibilities:
Develops and maintains reliability scripts, tools and libraries and leverages them for common instrumentation, automation, and operational needs, and when mentoring Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) resources on reliability practices and established tools/capabilities
Collaborates with Development and Infrastructure teams to understand technical solutions and implement monitoring capabilities outlined in the application and system monitoring designs put forward by the SRE Lead
Partners to implement code changes to make use of common reliability libraries and tools and helps Application Production Services and Application Development teammates understand how to use them
Identifies vulnerabilities and opportunities for reliability improvement, such as investigating low level error rates and 'noise' in monitoring, and defines solutions to reduce manual support effort and/or improve system reliability
Engages as a subject matter expert in major incident triage efforts and failure scenario modelling and diagnosis with Problem Manager root causes for major incident/problem management investigations
Participates regularly in an on-call rotation with Production Support teammates to learn more about reliability issues affecting their portfolio
Required Qualifications:
5+ years of experience in supporting Crowdstrike Falcon and other enterprise security scanning and patching solutions
Experience with enterprise monitoring and reporting tools and providing 24x7x365 support
Ability to work with product managers and development leads to design, build and maintain enterprise solutions
Proficient in Linux & Windows
Desired Qualifications:
Development languages (Java, Python)
Additional security scanning and patching solutions (Bladelogic, Microsoft SCCM, Tanium, BMC Atrium Orchestrator)
Remedy ITSM
Ansible Tower, Bladelogic, BMC Atrium Orchestrator
Monitoring Tools (Tivoli ITM, Sitescope, Dynatrace)
Skills:
Analytical Thinking
Automation
Collaboration
Production Support
Result Orientation
Application Development
Architecture
Influence
Project Management
Solution Design
Adaptability
DevOps Practices
Risk Management
Solution Delivery Process
Stakeholder Management
Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)
Hours Per Week:
40
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