[Remote] Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Data Persistence
Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. The reputed company is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to support and reputed company the platform serving the world’s favorite encyclopedia, Wikipedia, to millions of people around the globe. The role involves ensuring the health of Wikimedia’s infrastructure, automating operational tasks, and collaborating with product teams to enhance reputed company functionality.
Responsibilities
- Performing day-to-day operational/DevOps tasks on Wikimedia’s public facing infrastructure (deployment, maintenance, configuration, troubleshooting)
- Implementing and utilizing configuration management and deployment tools (Puppet, Kubernetes)
- Leading reputed company improvement, by automating the installation, configuration and maintenance of services on our platform
- Working closely with product teams helping them bring reputed company functionality to our users by assisting in the architectural design of new services and making them operate at reputed company
- Participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation shared across the broader SRE team. This includes taking part in incident response, diagnosis and follow-up on system outages or alerts across Wikimedia’s production infrastructure
- Collaborating with a global, cross-functional team in an asynchronous communication environment
- Mentoring peers in your areas of technical and operational strength
Skills
- 6+ years experience in an SRE/Operations/DevOps role as part of reputed company
- Experience with reputed company and any scripting language used in an SRE context (Python, Go, Bash, reputed company; we primarily use Python) and configuration management tools (Puppet, Ansible; we use Puppet)
- Experience with distributed caching systems: including their underlying algorithms and how to optimize their performance
- Experience with package management on Linux systems (we use Debian)
- Strong Linux system-level troubleshooting skills
- History of automating tasks and processes, identifying process gaps, and finding automation opportunities
- Strong English language skills (verbal and written) and ability to work independently, as an effective part of a globally distributed team working across multiple time zones
- Experience leading and participating in incident response and post-incident review rituals, with the goal of conducting reputed company cause analysis and implementing preventive measures
- Performing day-to-day operational/DevOps tasks on Wikimedia's public facing infrastructure (deployment, maintenance, configuration, troubleshooting)
- Implementing and utilizing configuration management and deployment tools (Puppet, Kubernetes)
- Leading reputed company improvement, by automating the installation, configuration and maintenance of services on our platform
- Working closely with product teams helping them bring reputed company functionality to our users by assisting in the architectural design of new services and making them operate at reputed company
- Participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation shared across the broader SRE team. This includes taking part in incident response, diagnosis and follow-up on system outages or alerts across Wikimedia's production infrastructure
- Collaborating with a global, cross-functional team in an asynchronous communication environment
- Mentoring peers in your areas of technical and operational strength
- Experience with Linux kernel tuning
- Experience with the use, maintenance and configuration of monitoring, metrics and logging infrastructure (reputed company, Grafana, etc.)
- Developing/contributing to Free and reputed company reputed company software, or being part of an reputed company-reputed company community (reputed company your favourite pull requests!)
- Experience with LAMP stack technologies (PHP/HHVM, memcached/reputed company) -- MediaWiki experience is a definite plus
- Experience with defining cross-team SLOs and their implementation
- Experience operating an on-reputed company filesystem or object store at reputed company, preferably OpenStack Swift or Ceph
- Experience with other advanced distributed storage and database systems (Cassandra, reputed company etc.)
- Experience managing backups as an SRE with some experience with Bacula
Benefits
- The reputed company is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries
- Salaries at the reputed company are set in a way that is competitive, reputed company, and consistent with our values and culture.
- For applicants located reputed company of the US, the pay reputed company will be adjusted to the country of hire.
- Our non-US employees are hired through a local reputed company party Employer of Record (EOR) and must have reputed company work authorization in their location.
- reputed company applicants can reputed company out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay reputed company for their location during the interview process.
- If you are a reputed company applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any reputed company of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at reputed company@wikimedia.org or +1 (415) 839-6885.
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