POSITION PURPOSE

As a Sr Site Reliability Engineer you will be responsible for building and supporting the platform/application infrastructure of one of the largest eCommerce sites in the world. This will require you to maintain high site uptime/availability while embracing rapid change and growth using a strong devops mindset of continuous delivery and site automation. This role requires deep technical knowledge, adaptability, hands on execution, and a ruthless drive towards higher levels of availability and resiliency. In this role:

• You will have a maniacal focus on site uptime
• Engineer application infrastructure that is reliable, efficient, and maintainable
• Partner closely with software engineering teams using a strong devops mindset
• Constantly improve operational processes and efficiency
• Automate, Automate, Automate!!!

  MAJOR TASKS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES  
  70% - Delivery & Execution:

  • Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
  • Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
  • Works with Product Team to ensure user stories that are developer-ready, easy to understand, and testable
  • Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases
  • Writes custom code or scripts to do \"destructive testing\" to ensure adequate resiliency in production
  • Configures commercial off the shelf solutions to align with evolving business needs
  • Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively

    20% - Support & Enablement:

    • Fields questions from other product teams or support teams
    • Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams
    • Provides application support for software running in production
    • Proactively monitors production Service Level Objectives for products
    • Proactively reviews the performance and capacity of all aspects of production: code, infrastructure, data, and message processing

      10% - Learning:

      • Participates in learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)
      • Proactively views articles, tutorials, and videos to learn about new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations

        NATURE AND SCOPE 
        Typically reports to the Software Engineer Manager or Sr. Manager. 
        ENVIRONMENTAL JOB REQUIREMENTS 
        Environment: Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
        Travel: Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.