Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Linux Performance

Responsibilities

• Developing, testing, and distributing changes to automation, software, services, and tools the VHP team is responsible for.
• Designing and implementing enhancements to VHP observability infrastructure in order to identify and correct problems before they impact our customers.
• Comfortable working in new tooling, code and environments and automating what's possible.
• Create supporting tooling using Ansible or Profiling to aid in performance investigations.
• Developing subject matter expertise in various components across our Compute environment.
• Collaborating with our support, operations and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems.
• Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues.

Requirements

• Possess expert level experience in Linux internals, system administration, and a deep understanding of underlying hardware.
• Possess advanced level experience with the Linux kernel, OS, and optimization of their configurations for KVM/QEMU virtualization.
• Possess advanced level experience with designing, developing, and deploying software and infrastructure at scale.
• Advanced level experience in a Development or SRE role, preferably working with large scale distributed systems.
• Experience with tools like SaltStack, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Kubernetes for managing infrastructure at scale.
• Have relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.