Associate Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join Gimmal as an Associate Site Reliability Engineer and contribute to the design, building, and maintenance of production services. You will collaborate with development teams, drive release management and monitoring solutions, and ensure service level agreements (SLAs) are met. This role requires a Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or equivalent experience, along with expertise in cloud infrastructure architecture, Azure DevOps, and various Azure services. You will be responsible for optimizing cloud service cost/capacity ratios, monitoring and scaling services, implementing disaster recovery and business continuity scenarios, and developing infrastructure as code on Azure. Gimmal offers competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, a 401k matching plan, a new joiner home office set up, an open PTO policy, and a diverse and supportive team environment.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Experience with: Cloud infrastructure architecture and principles
• Azure DevOps build and release pipelines or equivalent
• Azure SQL Database, Cosmos DB, or equivalent
• ElasticSearch, Azure Search, or equivalent
• Azure Cloud Services, App Services or equivalent
• Azure Service Bus
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for a production cloud service Optimize the cloud services’ cost/ capacity ratios, monitor, scale, implement and validate their disaster recovery and business continuity scenarios
• Respond to external support requests relevant to the current cloud architecture; for example, maintain, document, and support the public IPs of the cloud service
• Develop effective cloud infrastructure, enforce good architectural principles, provide technical oversight, and ensure security best practices are implemented and followed
• Develop infrastructure as code on Azure using best practices and implementations across all environments from dev to production
• Ensure regional redundancy of web applications within the budget
• Support Gimmal’s adherence to operational compliance requirements
• Be a team-player Work with development teams to design, create, and implement infrastructure for new products and features for the Gimmal portfolio
• Aid in reviewing design specifications to ensure full understanding of individual deliverables
• When necessary, work nights or weekends to perform deployments and maintenance operations

Preferred Qualifications

• Kubernetes
• Infrastructure-as-code
• YAML Docker Containers
• Agile & SCRUM methodologies
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (Release Management)
• Identity Management / SSO
• SOC 2, ISO 9001:2015, and FedRAMP

Benefits

• Competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and a 401k matching plan
• New joiner home office set up of $500
• An Open PTO policy allowing you the flexibility you need to recharge
• A diverse team, where everyone helps each other
• An open environment for new ideas