[Hiring] Site Reliability Engineer @66degrees

Role Description

66degrees’ Managed Cloud Optimization (MCO) team works with some of the largest cloud users in the world to help them transform their businesses with technology. Our Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) combine Google Cloud Platform expertise with a passion for devops methodologies to help our clients maintain, optimize, and scale their cloud implementations.

On a daily basis, our SREs work with varied and exciting customers on topics including:

• Solving critical outages
• Designing and deploying new cloud workloads
• Building self-healing automation

Our SREs work with cutting-edge Google Cloud technologies like:

• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
• Anthos
• BigQuery
• Data pipelines

They also use leading 3rd party tools like:

• Prometheus
• Datadog

Additionally, our SREs work with languages like Python and Terraform to:

• Create automation
• Deploy infrastructure
• Contribute to open-sourcing

If you’re looking to continually build and apply your Google Cloud expertise to new and varied environments while acting as a key contributor to building the best Google consulting partner in the industry – let’s talk.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3+ years of cloud and infrastructure experience, including demonstrated expertise with Linux, Windows, k8s, databases, and networking services
• 2+ years of Google Cloud experience and related certifications strongly preferred but not required
• Proficiency with Python required. Other programming language experience is a plus
• Strong provisioning and configuration skills using Terraform
• Experience with 24x7x365 monitoring, incident response, and on-call support
• Experience in troubleshooting that spans systems, network, and code
• Experience determining & negotiating Error budgets, SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs with product owners
• Demonstrate the ability to work independently and as a member of a greater team, including cross-team activities
• Experience working in Agile Scrum, Kanban methodologies in SDLC
• Proven experience balancing service reliability, metrics, sustainability, technical debt, and operational toil for live services running at scale
• Strong communication skills, as this is a heavily customer-facing role
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or equivalent required

Requirements

• Ensure near-zero downtime with monitoring and alerting, self-healing automation, and continuous improvement
• Create highly automated, available and scalable systems by applying software and infrastructure principles
• Employ and advise clients on DevOps and SRE principles and practices, covering deployment pipelines, HA, service reliability, technical debt, and operational toil for live services running at scale
• Provide a proactive approach to our clients’ workloads, anticipating failures, automating tasks, ensuring availability, and providing a great customer experience
• Work closely with clients, your team, and Google engineers to investigate and resolve infrastructure issues
• Contribute to ad-hoc initiatives such as writing documentation, open-sourcing, and improving operation, making a huge impact at a rapid-growth Google Premier Partner

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