Roles and Responsibilities
Bridging the gaps b/w core infra, security, QA and development team.
Owning the end-to-end Availability, Performance, and Capacity of applications and their infrastructure and creating/maintaining the respective observability with Prometheus/Current Relic/ELK/Loki.
Provide 24X7 infra & app support, build processes and document tribal knowledge around the same time.
Mentor and train L1 engineers and continually improve the app and infra-support processes.
Managing application deployment & GKE platforms - automate and improve development and release processes.
Creating, managing and maintaining data stores & data platform infra using IaC.
Owning and onboarding recent applications with the production readiness review process.
Managing the SLO/Error Budgets/Alerts and performing root cause analysis for production errors.
Working with Core Infra, Dev and Product teams to define SLO/Error Budgets/Alerts.
Working with the Dev team to have an in-depth understanding of the application architecture and its bottlenecks.
Identifying observability gaps in application & infrastructure and working with stakeholders to fix them.
Managing outages and doing detailed RCA with developers and identifying ways to avoid that situation.
Automate toil and repetitive work.
Experience & Skills
3+ Years of experience in managing high traffic, large-scale microservices and infrastructure with excellent troubleshooting skills.
Experience in troubleshooting, managing and deploying containerized environments using Docker/containers, Kubernetes is a must.
Must be proficient with the helm with experience in service mesh like Istio or Linkerd .
Must be very hands-on in managing and troubleshooting the Kubernetes workplace.
Extensive experience with Linux administration and a good understanding of the various Linux kernel subsystems (memory, storage, network etc).
Extensive experience in DNS, TCP/IP, UDP, GRPC, Routing and Load Balancing.
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