Senior Site Reliability Engineer

So, what’s the role all about?

• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health
• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
• Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large distributed software applications

How will you make an impact?

• Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives

Have you got what it takes?

• 3-6 years of working experience in a similar role, with a focus on systems engineering, automation, and reliability.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Java, C#) and experience with scripting languages (e.g., Bash, PowerShell).
• Deep understanding of cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS), the working and reliability constraints of some of the prominent services (e.g., EC2, ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB etc)
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD concepts and experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or CircleCI.
• Strong knowledge of containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and microservices architecture.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Cloudwatch).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues in distributed systems.
• Experience of Incident management and blameless postmortems that includes driving the incident response efforts during outages and other critical incidents, resolution, and communication in a cross-functional team setup.

You will have an advantage if you also have:

• Handson experience of working with large Kubernetes Cluster. Certification will be an added plus.
• Working experience of Grafana Observability Suite (Loki, Mimir, Tempo).
• Administration and/or development experience of standard monitoring and automation tools such as Splunk, Datadog, Pagerduty Rundeck.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer, or equivalent.

Personal attributes:

• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Team player - ability to work well in a close team environment.
• Fast learner with ability to educate her/himself on relevant technologies
• Ability to multitask and prioritize work
• Ability to remain focused and calm under pressure

At NICE, we work according to the NICE-FLEX hybrid model, which enables maximum flexibility: 2 days working from the office and 3 days of remote work, each week. Naturally, office days focus on face-to-face meetings, where teamwork and collaborative thinking generate innovation, new ideas, and a vibrant, interactive atmosphere.

Reporting into: Director, Network Operations.

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