Remote Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Core Scientific, a company specializing in blockchain hardware hosting and financial technology. The role involves managing infrastructure, driving secure practices, fostering communication, and performing other duties as assigned. The position requires 5+ years' experience in SRE, DevOps, and/or Infrastructure Engineering, strong analytical skills, proficiency in various tools and cloud environments, intermediate scripting ability, and the ability to work remotely.

Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience in SRE, DevOps, and/or Infrastructure Engineering
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; team player
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to define, capture, interpret product/system requirements
• Strong experience using Infrastructure as Code, Configuration Management, & Orchestration tools – we use mostly Terraform, Helm, Kustomize, and Ansible
• Strong understanding of cloud environments – we use AWS, but experience in other clouds is also a plus
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and virtualization
• Strong experience with build and release management – we primarily use Github Actions, makefiles, and Python scripts
• Strong experience with telemetry – metrics, logs, traces, writing monitors
• Intermediate scripting ability (Bash, Python, Make)
• Basic networking knowledge; OSI model, TCP/UDP, DHCP, DNS, routing, and HTTP

Responsibilities

• Define, capture, and interpret product/system requirements
• Build, integrate, test, monitor and deploy code across cloud and on-premises infrastructure
• Write plans, coordinate, and deploy applications via automation
• Write documentation to share knowledge with the team
• Drive secure, immutable infrastructure through infrastructure as code, thoughtful security practices and common orchestration tools
• Drive best practices across the Site Reliability Engineering team
• Foster open, respectful, and professional communication directly within the team as well as with co-workers/ teammates and leaders across the organization

Benefits

• Work Environment: This job operates in a remote office and generally uses laptop computers and smartphones
• Position Type/ Expected Hours of Work: This is a full-time position. You are expected to be available generally around U.S. time zones. You will be part of an on-call rotation. The current rotation is 1 week every 5 weeks
• Travel: On rare occasions, you may be invited to attend off-site team building and planning