Remote Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) based in Portugal. The role involves ensuring the reliability of platforms and services, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems, improving monitoring and logging solutions, provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure, and following security and compliance best practices.

Requirements

• Ability to program with one or more high level languages, e.g.: Typescript, Python, etc
• Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code (e.g.: CloudFormation, Ansible)
• Monitoring and Alerting tools, e.g.: AWS Cloudwatch, New Relic, etc
• Incident management/on-call, e.g.: PagerDuty, etc
• Gather and analyze metrics to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university, or three to four years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 3+ years of software engineering and/or IT operations and infrastructure experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Ensure the availability, performance, monitoring, release engineering, and incident response of platforms and services
• Analyze and troubleshoot large-scale distributed systems in the public cloud
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation
• Improve and maintain monitoring and logging solutions that measure availability, latency, and overall system health of production systems
• Provision and manage cloud Infrastructure through automation and infrastructure as code
• Restore healthy operation of applications and services through sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
• Follow and monitor security and compliance best practices
• Adopt a proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks

Benefits

• Compensation competitive to market and geographical location
• Meal allowance for each day worked available through meal card
• Home/Office allowance reimbursement per calendar month, pro-rated based on employment start date
• Health insurance. Tillster pays the premium for employee private health insurance. Employees have the option to add their spouse/dependents at the employee’s cost
• Holidays: Up to 14 federal and local/municipal holidays in accordance with applicable Portuguese Labour laws, dependent on your employment start date
• Vacation: Up to 22 days of vacation every holiday year, pro-rated based on employment start date
• Education, Learning & Development. We offer Udemy Learning courses; and ongoing learning and development opportunities