Alia Services is hiring a
Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Site Reliability Engineer position at Trax Retail, a fast-growing retail merchandising company. The role involves managing and maintaining the cloud infrastructure, implementing DevOps principles, and ensuring stable releases. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in Linux-based Server Operating Systems, cloud infrastructure, databases, CI/CD systems, container orchestration, monitoring systems, network protocols, web service fundamentals, MySQL Database performance tuning, security systems, and programming.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience managing Linux-based Server Operating Systems
• 5+ years of experience managing cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
• 5+ years of experience managing large high-performance databases and data processing jobs for business critical reporting applications
• 5+ years of experience managing environments using Infrastructure and Configuration-as-Code (Terraform/CloudFormation/Puppet/Chef/Etc)
• 5+ years of experience with CI/CD and test automation systems (Jenkins/Gitlab/Argo/Helm/etc.)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to communicate with stakeholders across the business
• Knowledge of monitoring systems including host/OS metrics, logging, and web application performance, using both SaaS products (DataDog/NewRelic/etc.) and open-source solutions (syslog/Loki/Grafana/etc.)
• Knowledge of container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, including autoscaling, service mesh, rollout strategies, and cost management
• Knowledge of network protocols, including TCP/IP, HTTP/S, DNS, DHCP, and NAT
• Thorough understanding of web service fundamentals, such as caching, CDNs, load balancing, and traffic shaping
• MySQL Database performance tuning and high-availability experience
• Experience with security systems, including WAF, firewall rules, public key infrastructure, and cryptography
• Experience writing code in any programming language
• Experience writing optimized SQL queries

Responsibilities

• Implement cost-effective and scalable solutions to complex cloud infrastructure problems
• Maintain the reliability of our cloud infrastructure while simultaneously improving and upgrading it
• Perform low-level analysis and debugging of problems in both containerized and VM-based Linux workloads
• Automate manual processes to improve developer productivity
• Ensure stable and reliable releases by maintaining and improving our CI/CD systems
• Be an advocate for DevOps best practices in both the Infrastructure team and across the organization
• Manage and participate in a rotating On Call team which is responsible for handling high-priority bugs and issues

Preferred Qualifications

• Production experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Ability to code modern, containerized web applications
• Strong understanding of the Python programming language
• Ability to perform low-level network debugging, including packet analysis and an understanding of the Linux network stack

Benefits

• Full time positions with the potential for overtime
• 100% remote positions
• Competitive compensation package
• An inclusive, fast pace exciting environment culture offering accelerated professional growth
• 1-on-1 coaching with feedback sessions, mentorships, and leadership development programs
• Opportunities for cross-functional development