Job responsibilities
- Manage incident response to swiftly mitigate business impacts by coordinating cross-functional teams.
- Serve as the primary point of contact during major incidents, demonstrating the ability to quickly identify and resolve issues to prevent financial losses.
- Participate in 24x7 support coverage as required.
- Oversee, track, and validate all changes to the Production and Disaster Recovery environments.
- Automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation on AWS.
- Lead initiatives to enhance the reliability and stability of team applications and platforms, utilizing data-driven analytics to improve service levels.
- Document and share knowledge within the organization through internal forums and communities of practice.
- Provide ongoing guidance, tools, and solutions to support the firm's growth.
- Champion and demonstrate site reliability culture and practices, exerting technical influence throughout the team.
- Exhibit a high level of technical expertise in one or more domains, proactively identifying and resolving technology-related bottlenecks.
- Strive to become an expert on the applications and platforms under your purview, understanding their interdependencies and limitations.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience.
- Deep proficiency in reliability, scalability, performance, security, enterprise system architecture, toil reduction, and other site reliability best practices with the ability to implement these practices within an application or platform
- Fluency in at least one programming language such as (e.g., Python, Java Spring Boot, Go, Shell Script, etc.)
- Deep knowledge of software applications and technical processes with emerging depth in one or more technical disciplines
- Proficiency and experience in observability such as white and black box monitoring, SLO alerting, and telemetry collection using tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, etc.
- Proficiency and experience in Cloud Platform (AWS) infrastructure and setting up monitoring / observability for application migrated to cloud platforms.
- Proficiency in continuous integration and continuous delivery tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Terraform, etc.)
- Experience with container and container orchestration (e.g., ECS, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
- Experience with troubleshooting common networking technologies and issues
- Ability to identify and solve problems related to complex data structures, algorithms and new technologies and if needed self-educate on new technology
- Ability to expand and collaborate across different levels and stakeholder groups
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Ability to identify new technologies and relevant solutions to ensure design constraints are met by the software team
- Ability to initiate and implement ideas to solve business problem
- Experience building dashboards with products such as Grafana
- Prior experience in both Systems Engineering and Software Development
- AWS certification as an Architect, DevOps is preferred