Appspace is hiring a
Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Site Reliability Engineer at Appspace, a company passionate about creating better work experiences. The role involves maintaining and improving the cloud platform, working with various technologies like Kubernetes, Microservices, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, MySQL, Windows Server VM Infrastructure, Orchestration Engines, CI/CD and Monitoring platforms. The ideal candidate should have strong experience in Python and shell scripting, Kubernetes and Helm, Linux, and some experience with Windows Server OS and MacOS. Flexibility to attend off-hour meetings and occasional travel is required.

Requirements

• Must be able to learn new technologies quickly and a desire to be a life-long learner
• Must communicate well and adapt to working well with others across different countries and cultures
• Strong background in Containers, Kubernetes, Helm, Linux, Python coding, and some experience with Windows Server OS and MacOS are a must

Responsibilities

• Automating maintenance tasks for our Cloud Platform
• Deploying new features and releases of our software into Kubernetes via Helm
• Troubleshooting performance issues or errors thrown by the cloud platform or application
• Actioning Request Tickets from other teams in support of their needs to enable and prepare for upcoming releases
• Monitoring the application’s performance, uptime, and cloud infrastructure’s performance
• Lead, Participate, or Execute within the incident management process when alerts fire
• Configure, Monitor, Research, and Evaluate workload performances both on Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure Clouds
• Collaborating with our Development and Quality Assurance teams to address issues in the product and platform

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform, Google Kubernetes Engine, Google Compute Engine, and Google Storage is highly desired, but comparable experience with AWS or Azure will be considered
• Solid troubleshooting experience and the ability to reason through a process workflow to identify a fault or odd behavior (i.e., spending time following log trails)
• Experience with administering MySQL & MongoDB preferred
• Experience with administering message brokering systems like RabbitMQ preferred

Benefits

• Competitive salaries, medical, dental and vision coverage, disability coverage, employer paid life insurance, mental health resources, 401(k) plan and a fully paid parental leave program
• Generous PTO, Flexible work schedules, Remote work opportunities, Paid company holidays, 1/2 Day Fridays, Appspace Quiet Fridays (No non-essential internal meetings scheduled)