Kentik

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud

Kentik

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $165,000 - $200,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Make sure our real-time, scalable, infrastructure is set up for growth and working efficiently. Our infrastructure runs on our own hardware, across multiple locations as well as all major cloud vendors
  • Work on tools and processes to better monitor our platform as well as ensuring its stability through our rapid growth
  • Deep-diving into diverse topics, from firewalls and IP routing, to database replication strategies or automating build processes
  • Collaborate with engineering and infrastructure teams on finding solutions from an operational perspective
  • Assist with expanding our cloud deployments across the major cloud providers
  • Contribute code, code reviews and tools or patches to all kinds of existing code
  • Write design documents or collaborate on colleagues’ docs to introduce new features or changes into our infrastructure
  • Provide valuable feedback on team goals, projects, and processes. We believe in continuously improving our team

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in cloud-based Systems Administration, IT and/or SRE related projects
  • Expertise in public cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or OCI.
  • Strong command of containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Solid programming and automation skills using Bash, Python, or Go.
  • Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management platforms such as Terraform, Ansible, and Puppet.
  • Proficiency in Linux administration and command-line tools (e.g., SSH, grep, awk).
  • Detailed understanding of major internet protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS)
  • Networking administration experience: concepts such as routing, firewalls (iptables), peering sound familiar
  • A passion for documenting code, processes, and infrastructure in runbooks and wikis
  • Worked with metrics monitoring solutions such as grafana, prometheus, telegraf, and OpenTelemetry
  • Experience creating and managing tickets with third party vendors and owning cloud vendor partner relationships.
Benefits
  • 100% of premiums are paid by company for health, vision and dental coverage for you and your dependents
  • Additionally, an annual Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) of $3,000 for an individual or $4,500 for a family
  • Paid family & medical leave
  • Open PTO, a quarterly Wellness Day, and a minimum of 10 paid holidays
  • 401(k) retirement account
  • Home office reimbursement
  • Stock options

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
cloud-based Systems AdministrationSREAWSGCPAzureOCIDockerKubernetesBashPython
Soft skills
collaborationfeedbackcontinuous improvement