Cloud Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join NiCE's expanding Site Reliability team and contribute to the automation, support, and maintenance of our applications. As a key member, you will lead investigations into outages, performance, and cost issues, and spearhead initiatives to automate low-value tasks. You will provide technical leadership to Cloud Operations and Support teams, developing and configuring monitoring dashboards and alerts. Responsibilities include installing and configuring the Observability Platform, developing bicep modules, and configuring CI/CD pipelines. This role requires significant experience in Site Reliability Engineering, programming, and cloud technologies. The ideal candidate will be a proactive problem-solver with excellent communication and troubleshooting skills.

Requirements

• Must have 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering
• Excellent technical, analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Experience and in-depth knowledge of databases and data handling (MS-SQL, Elasticsearch, YML, JSON, XML)
• Significant experience in programming or advanced scripting (C#, PowerShell etc.)
• Experience with infrastructure/configuration as code and version control (ARM, BICEP, Git)
• Experience managing monitoring, alerting and dashboarding platforms (Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch)
• Demonstrable experience of supporting live cloud services and platforms
• Production experience with Kubernetes and containerization
• Implementation and support of service level objectives (SLOs)
• Exposure to commercial cloud providers (Ideally Azure, others considered)
• Efficient, effective, and respectful communication skills both with customers and within internal departments. Including, Good listener, able to identify and validate assumptions
• Able to use effective questioning to confirm understanding of a customer problem and then provide help to solve it
• Methodical troubleshooting, technical skill and attention to detail used in diagnosing problems and reproducing issues in a local environment
• Multi-tasking and time-management to prioritise and switch between varied tasks

Responsibilities

• Act as part of a team of SRE’s that act as the ‘gatekeepers’ of production, and actively manage the work backlog and develop reliability improvements
• Lead investigations into root cause outages, performance, and cost issues
• Lead initiatives to develop the automation of low-value tasks balanced against project delivery demands
• You will provide technical leadership and to wider Cloud Operations and Support teams along with providing oversight to the products and services they support
• Develop and configure monitoring dashboards and alerts in tools like Grafana and Azure Monitor
• Installation and configuration of Observability Platform including tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Azure Monitor, Open telemetry etc
• Developing bicep modules for monitoring infrastructure and deploy it
• Developing and configuring CI/CD pipelines in Azure Devops for deploying monitoring infrastructure and monitoring objects

Preferred Qualifications

• Be flexible with working hours when needed to address critical or urgent matters
• Be able to provide on-call services from time to time as needed
• Exposure to Azure DevOps pipelines is desirable (CI/CD)
• Exposure to test frameworks is desirable (NUnit, Jasmine, Selenium)

Benefits

• Join an ever-growing, market disrupting, global company where the teams – comprised of the best of the best – work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and creative environment!
• As the market leader, every day at NiCE is a chance to learn and grow, and there are endless internal career opportunities across multiple roles, disciplines, domains, and locations
• Enjoy NiCE-FLEX!
• At NiCE, we work according to the NiCE-FLEX hybrid model, which enables maximum flexibility: 2 days working from the office and 3 days of remote work, each week