Rapid7 Lead Site Reliability Engineer 

Czechia, Prague, Prague 

357968468

Some of the technologies we use include:

Java, Python, Cassandra, MySQL/RDS, Redis, ElasticSearch, Kafka, AWS (EC2, S3, CloudFormation, etc.), Zookeeper, Terraform, Jenkins, Artifactory, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Kubernetes

About the Role

In this role, you will:

• Support services before they go live through activities such as design, deployment, migration strategy, monitoring, and playbook reviews

• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health

• Scale systems through automation, driving service and infrastructure improvements as well as other ways

• Troubleshoot production issues and liaising with relevant Engineering or Infrastructure team for a resolution

• Participating in on-call support, and incident response follow-ups such as post-mortems

• Working closely with Engineering teams, Architecture, Infrastructure and Product teams to improve the lifecycle of the InsightIDR services - from inception, design, deployment, operations, monitoring, security, upgrade and maintenance

• Mentoring and coaching team members

The skills you’ll bring include:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or STEM-related field

• 3+ years of experience in SRE with at least 1 year in a leadership role

• 8+ years of experience in algorithms, data structures, analysis, software design, Unix/Linux systems, IP networking, performance and application issues, RESTFul architectures, database operation and optimization

• 8+ years of experience programming in one or more of the following languages: Java, Python, C, C++, Go, Rust

• Excellent knowledge in AWS services, including EC2, RDS, VPC, networking, S3, MSK, etc.

• Effective time management and organisational skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills