System Reliability Engineer (Application Support + Automation) (BizOps requirement)

System Reliability Engineer (Application Support + Automation) (BizOps requirement)

St Louis, MO

Contract/Contract to Hire

The Role

• Plan, manage, and oversee all aspects of a Production Environment
• Define strategies for Application Performance Monitoring, Optimization in Prod environment
• Respond to Incidents and improvise platform based on feedback and measure the reduction of incidents over time.
• Support deployment of code into multiple lower environments. Supporting current processes with an emphasis on automating everything as soon as possible.
• Design, develop and standardize Monitoring and Alerting mechanism for the supported applications.
• Take a holistic approach to problem solving, by connecting the dots during a production event through the various technology stack that makes up the platform, to optimize meantime to recover.
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services-from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Analyse ITSM activities of the platform and provide feedback loop to development teams on operational gaps or resiliency concerns.
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Support the application CI/CD pipeline for promoting software into higher environments through validation and operational gating, and lead in DevOps automation and best practices.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolving systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Work with a global team spread across tech hubs in multiple geographies and time zones.
• Ability to share knowledge and explain processes and procedures to others.
• Share knowledge and mentor junior resources
• Able to perform on-call duties on a rotational basis.
• Occasional off hours work required.

Must Have -

Linux

Shell Scripting

ITIL / ITSM

PL/SQL

Application Troubleshooting

Any Monitoring tool (Splunk/Dynatrace)

Jenkins - CI/CD - Basic

Groovy Scripting/Yaml - Basic

Git basic/bit bucket - Basic

Experience in REST and WEB API Support

Experience in Cloud based apps Support

Good To Have -

Ansible/Chef - Good to have

Even Framework architecture