Gorilla Logic is hiring a
Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join our team as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to develop and maintain advanced observability solutions, focusing on blackbox and whitebox monitoring, synthetic tests, and platform reliability across on-premise and GCP environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• +3 years of experience in DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering, with a focus on automation, infrastructure as code, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices
• 3+ years of experience in programming, with a strong focus on Golang development
• +3 years of experience with APM and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, ELK, Splunk, or similar
• Proficiency in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and experience with on-premise environments, particularly with application deployment and management on OpenShift
• Experience with container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes (K8s) and OpenShift
• Experience with CI/CD deployment pipelines, ensuring automated and reliable deployment processes
• Demonstrable experience in designing and deploying scalable and resilient systems, with an understanding of cloud-native principles
• Extensive experience in implementing both blackbox and whitebox monitoring solutions, with a focus on SLOs and anomaly detection

Responsibilities

• Lead efforts in blackbox monitoring, including the development and enhancement of the Health Mesh product
• Implement and manage synthetic tests that monitor critical platform services, providing early detection of incidents
• Utilize Prometheus for blackbox monitoring and develop simple Go APIs to support these activities
• Implement whitebox monitoring strategies with a focus on Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for core Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services and applications on OpenShift
• Ensure that both platform operators and customers have clear visibility into the system's performance and health
• Develop and refine anomaly detection mechanisms using the same metrics applied in whitebox monitoring
• Leverage tools such as Prometheus and Dynatrace to identify and address potential issues before they escalate, contributing to overall platform stability
• Create tools and processes that help operators distinguish between platform-level incidents and individual user errors
• Enhance the observability of API gateways and other critical infrastructure components
• Maintain and improve observability tools that support both on-premise and cloud environments, ensuring seamless operation across different infrastructure setups
• Provide application support for on-premise applications and utilize technologies such as OpenShift for managing on-premise environments
• Collaborate with various teams to ensure effective incident management and response
• Focus on separating platform incidents from individual application teams, providing clear communication and resolution strategies

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of both Debian and Ubuntu environments
• Experience with Jenkins, Terraform, Datadog, K6, or similar technologies
• Understanding of web protocols and technologies such as HTTP, TLS, REST, Nginx, and API gateways