Site Reliability Engineer

BCforward is currently seeking a highly motivated Site Reliability Engineer for an opportunity in Remote!

Position Title: Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Remote

Anticipated Start Date: 12/10/2024

Please note this is the target date and is subject to change. BCforward will send official notice ahead of a confirmed start date.

Expected Duration : 6+ months contract + Contract to Hire

Job Type: (FULL TIME (>=40 HRS WEEKLY) (CONTRACT), (Remote)

Pay Range: $47 - $48/hr only on W2

Please note that actual compensation may vary within this range due to factors such as location, experience, and job responsibilities, and does not encompass additional non-standard compensation (e.g., benefits, paid time off, per diem, etc.).

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• A deep understanding of Observability - Dynatrace preferably (or other tools if they are well versed).
• Provisioning and setup metric in any observability tool - Dynatrace, Prometheus, Thanos, or Grafana, alerts and silences
• Development work (not just support and running scripts but actual development) done on:
• Chef (basic syntax, recipes, cookbooks) or Ansible (basic syntax, tasks, playbooks) or
• Terraform basic syntax and GitLab CI/CD configuration, pipelines, jobs
• Proficiency in scripting - Python, PowerShell, Bash etc. This becomes the enabler for automation.
• Proposes ideas and solutions within the Infrastructure Department to reduce the workload through automation.
• Cloud resources provisioning and configuration through CLI/API - specially Azure and GCP. AWS experience is also ok

Troubleshooting - SRE approach, SRE mindset.

• Provides emergency response either by being on-call or by reacting to symptoms according to monitoring and escalation when needed
• Improves documentation all around, either in application documentation, or in runbooks, explaining the why, not stopping with the what.
• Root cause analysis and corrective actions
• Strong Concepts around Scale & Redundancy - for design, troubleshooting, implementation

Mid Term:

• Kubernetes basic understanding, CLI, service re-provisioning
• Operating system (Linux) configuration, package management, startup and troubleshooting
• System Architecture & Design - Plan, design and execute solutions to reach specific goals agreed within the team.

Long Term:

• Block and object storage configuration
• Networking VPCs, proxies and CDNs

Benefits:

BCforward offers all eligible employees a comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to major medical, HSA, dental, vision, employer-provided group life, voluntary life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and 401k.

Keywords:
Site Reliability Engineer

About BC forward:

Founded in 1998 on the idea that industry leaders needed a professional service, and workforce management expert, to fuel the development and execution of core business and technology strategies, BCforward is a Black-owned firm providing unique solutions supporting value capture and digital product delivery needs for organizations around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN with an Offshore Development Center in Hyderabad, India, BCforward's 6,000 consultants support more than 225 clients globally.

BCforward champions the power of human potential to help companies transform, accelerate, and scale. Guided by our core values of People-Centric, Optimism, Excellence, Diversity, and Accountability, our professionals have helped our clients achieve their strategic goals for more than 25 years. Our strong culture and clear values have enabled BCforward to become a market leader and best in class place to work.

BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.

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