Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a
Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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Wikimedia Foundation

πŸ’΅ $109k-$169k
πŸ“Remote - Worldwide

Summary

Join the Wikimedia Foundation as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Databases and be part of a small team ensuring the health of our database systems. As a key member, you will support development and deployment, troubleshoot issues, automate tasks, plan for disaster recovery, and maintain backups.

Requirements

  • Proficient at automation/programming/scripting skills
  • Experience with Open Source configuration management and orchestration tools (Puppet, Ansible, Chef, SaltStack, etc.), as well as modern observability infrastructure (Prometheus, Grafana, Logstash/Kibana, Icinga/Nagios, etc.)
  • Advanced knowledge of Linux and IO/data storage concepts, internals and troubleshooting
  • Experience with managing remotely both bare-metal servers and virtualized environments
  • 5+ years experience in an SRE/Operations/DevOps role as part of a team
  • Experience with high traffic and highly available website architectures and operations
  • Strong English language skills
  • Ability to work independently in a fast paced environment, as an effective part of a globally distributed team, including ticket tracking systems and asynchronous communication tools
  • B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

Responsibilities

  • Operation, maintenance, troubleshooting and automation of relational database systems in production and staging environments
  • Handling configuration management, (Debian) package maintenance, patching and building, working with upstream on bug identification and resolution
  • Improving observability (alerting, metrics, monitoring) of database infrastructure
  • Multi-datacenter systems design, capacity and infrastructure planning
  • Taking part in incident response, diagnosis and follow-up on system outages or alerts across Wikimedia’s production infrastructure and participating in an on call rotation
  • Sharing our values and work in accordance with them

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Retirement benefits
  • Paid time off
  • Remote work, flexible hours

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