Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Title: Site Reliability Engineer
Location: On-site in NYC 3x per week
Type: 2 year contract

• Periodic updates and maintenance of Windows based golden image for ESX & AWS.
• Patching of software, systems, appliances etc through scripting or manual process
• Disaster recovery planning and testing of various products and distributed systems
• Deployment and maintenance of infrastructure and applications in AWS using IaC
• Automate the process of building VM images for ESX, AWS, Openstack
• Adoption of tooling and best practices in space of on-prem and public cloud infrastructure and application management
• Telemetry improvements (logging, monitoring etc) for various system and applications
• Performance tuning/optimization for systems and applications
• Escalated user support

Skills required

• Scripting (powershell, python)
• Automation tools such as ansible, chef, terraform, packer
• Virtualization platform such as ESXi or Openstack
• AWS operations (EC2, S3, lambda, ELB)
• Windows administration and basic navigation skills with Linux
• Basic networking concepts and troubleshooting
• Basic knowledge of security concepts and protocols such as HTTPS, TLS etc.
• General understanding of distributed systems
• Prior experience or working knowledge of remote access protocols such as RDP or Citrix will be a plus