Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) from INSPYR Solutions

Title: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Location: Houston, TX or Bartlesville, OK
Duration: 12 month+ contract
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.
 
Our Client is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to become a part of their growing Digital IT team focused on building an OpenShift/Kubernetes capability. The SRE will support the reliability of Digital IT/OT critical applications. This transformative role involves automating IT infrastructure tasks and driving SRE best practices, tools, and processes. The ideal candidate should exhibit a growth mindset and proactively monitor and work with application developers to respond to incidents for optimal user experience.
 
The candidate must have senior level experience deploying OpenShift on premises and supporting applications in Kubernetes. The ideal candidate will have experience in both on-prem OpenShift and Azure Kubernetes container platforms.
 
The successful candidate will possess strong infrastructure and developer background as well as interpersonal skills needed to communicate design requirements and objectives while providing thought leadership to peers and leadership.
 
Candidates should be self-motivated and collaborative IT professionals with a strong background in software development, systems administration and IT automation.
 
Responsibilities:

• Maintaining survivability and reliability of IT/OT critical resources.
• Write and build CI/CD pipelines and build/release processes for IT/OT workflow applications.
• Provide mentoring to the IT/OT Devops team in the best practices associated with CI/CD deployments using ADO, and GIT.
• Perform periodic load and scalability testing to establish baselines, drift, and capacity planning.
• Conduct weekly operational state reviews covering performance trends, anomalies, errors, and other availability events with SREs, product owners, and development teams.
• Participate in quarterly business and operational reviews aligning on roadmaps, development velocity, efficiency, growth trends, patching, etc.
• Plan and execute periodic Disaster Recovery exercises including both tabletop and simulated failures (fault injection).
• Required Qualifications
• Candidates must have a bachelor's degree and 7 years of IT experience.
• Senior level experience with OpenShift and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with continuous integration/deployment processes and tools such as IDEs (Eclipse), Source Code management. (GIT/Stash), ADO Pipelines, Maven, Nexus artifacts, etc.
• Strong understanding of SRE practices: incident response, change/release management, capacity planning, infrastructure automation, elastic environments, chaos engineering and blameless postmortems.
• Expertise in application performance monitoring, observability, and proactive alert correlation, including monitoring containers and failure-based alerting.
• Scripting experience such as Python and Bash
• Experienced in deploying applications in OpenShift in both public and private cloud.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills
• Demonstrated ability to communicate to nontechnical audience on technical issues.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate on a technical level to a technical audience.
• Strong interpersonal skills, adaptable and able to learn quickly.
• Requires limited supervision and have excellent time management skills.
• Self-motivated and self-starter.
• Ability to work and interact with others in a structured/team environment.

• Experience with at least one technology in each of the tech stack categories below:
• Monitoring and Logging Tools(s): AppDynamics, Splunk, ELK Stack, DataDog, Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch/X-Ray, Grafana
• Programming: C# .NET, PowerShell, Python, YAML
• Containers: Docker, Helm Chart
• OS: Linux – RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS
• Code Repos: Azure Repos, GitHub, GitLab
• Infrastructure as code: Terraform, Ansible
• Automation Tools: Ansible,Jenkins, Chef, Puppet
• Agile: JIRA, SAFe

• Experience in cloud/virtual technologies and management – OpenShift, VMware, AWS, Azure, etc.
• Familiarity with security best practices for containerized applications.
• Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools.
• Knowledge, skills and abilities to automate the creation of Platform as a Services (PaaS) infrastructure using industry standard tools such as Ansible and Chef.
• Familiarity with Industrial Control System (ICS) security architecture – Purdue model

• On-Site-Houston or Bartlesville

• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Competitive pay
• 401(k) retirement plan
• …and much more!