In everchanging SaaS landscape there are a few persistent items that contribute to developing quality solutions with speed. Namely, ensuing operational activities are treated as software development enhancements, manual tasks are remediated though automation, risk reduction though compartmentalization of services/code and consumption of readily available provider services. Product/development teams require an accountable partner to advance on these topics, The SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) team will be this partner.
Incident Management, Game Day coordination,
Create and drive Metric/observability solutions and reviews
Support production readiness reviews
Cross division role model to advance the SRE practice in Siemens
Complete technological control over methods of automation, codifying optional activities, microservice architecture, platform engineering to ensure changes, updates or technical advancements are in place for a product
Ensure the team can provide the design, deployment, automation, and scripting solutions to drive new capabilities, visibility, and efficiency
Simplify highly complex ideas, architectures and concepts to encourage achievable adoption
Collaborate with other technical platforms and partners to engineer automated and integrated solutions between tools, services, teams that increase availability, reliability, and performance
Own and ensure the internal and external SLA’s meet and exceed expectations
Be part of maintaining a 24x7, global, highly available SaaS environment
Participate in an on-call rotation that supports our production infrastructure
Troubleshoot production availability incidents that often span across multiple teams and services
Ensure the SRE team can coordinate production incident post-mortems, and contribute to solutions to prevent problem recurrence; with the goal of automated response to all non-exceptional service conditions
Communicate to business and technical partners on incidents as they occur when they impact system performance or availability at a critical level
Desired certifications include: Datadog, Kubernetes, Security, AWS certification
Understanding of ITIL
Deep understanding of SRE and Incident management strategies
Experience with issue/incident tracking tool
(ServiceNOW, ServiceDesk, Jira or equivalent tools) andopen source tools (Linux, Python, Git, Ansible)Experience on Enterprise IT environment with distributed environments
Networking concepts, including firewalls, VPN, routing, load balancers, security and DNS
Senior level system administration experience, including troubleshooting, support, mentorship/training, and oversight