Senior Service Reliability Engineer

Job Title
Senior Service Reliability Engineer
Summary of the role:
As part of the Amadeus Global Operations Americas organization, the Senior Service Reliability Engineer is responsible to support revenue generating systems in production environments. The engineer works closely with other SREs in the monitoring, maintenance, and support related to incident and problem resolution of Amadeus Hospitality production applications. The position is responsible to support the solution full stack including all technology layers comprised in the proprietary software hospitality solutions and platform. The Senior Service Reliability Engineer reports to the Director of Platform and SRE and partners with the Architect, System, Network, Cloud and Platform Engineering teams while leading work on projects or day to day operational activities aimed to ensure the reliability of the Hospitality production applications. The candidate must be able to provide expert and prompt technology operations support in a high energy, fast paced environment. He or she will serve as senior resource and mentor to other Service Reliability Engineers. The role requires to work autonomously within defined processes and procedures. The role contributes to build an healthy and collaborative environment, leading by example.
In this role you'll:

• Provide support related to production systems availability incidents and problems.
• Provide support related to production systems latency incidents and problems.
• Provide support related to production systems performance incidents and problems.
• Provide support related to production operations efficiency issues.
• Provide emergency response to production systems incidents.
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of job-relevant issues, products, systems, and processes.
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of function-specific procedures.
• Applies knowledge/judgment to achieve business goals.
• Foresees, identifies, and resolves problems.
• Keeps up-to-date technically and applies new knowledge to job.
• Participate in On-Call production support
• Performs other reasonable duties as required for this position.
• Manage to help ensure application incident metrics trend in the right direction (e.g., minimal response times, incident backlogs, and reliance on other teams while resolving incidents).
• Help drive feedback loops from Incident and problem Management back into Delivery teams, so that quality improves over time.
• Ensure all application monitoring are implemented and updated appropriately.
• Determine need for new Problem tickets or association with Known Errors or other existing Problems, to help advance continual operational improvement.
• Automate repetitive tasks
• Drive technical projects from conception to completion
• Develops specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish work.
• Provides direction and assistance to other teams regarding projects.
• Understands and meets the needs of key stakeholders.
• Communicates concepts in a clear and persuasive manner that is easy to understand.
• Demonstrates an understanding of business priorities.
• Supports achievement of performance goals, budget goals, team goals, etc.
• Analyzes information and evaluates results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Generates and provides accurate and timely results in the form of reports, presentations, etc.
• Plans, develops, implements, and evaluates the quality of operations.

About the Ideal Candidate:

• Bachelor's degree educated or equivalent
• 8+ years automated operational deployment and support
• English; French and/or Spanish as plus
• Expert Linux operating systems and platforms such as RedHat/CentOS.
• Strong Windows operating systems experience.
• Extensive experience with troubleshooting web server technologies.
• Extensive experience with any middleware such as Tomcat, Jboss or other application server.
• Extensive experience with any monitoring, alerting, or pipeline analysis tool such as Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, Zabbix and/or SCOM.
• Strong understanding of network technology concepts and usage.
• Expert level understanding of Linux shell scripting.
• Outstanding ability to troubleshoot issues throughout the application and infrastructure stack.
• Strong experience with version control and repositories such as Git and Bitbucket.
• Strong experience developing scripts such as Bash, Python and Ruby.
• Experience with Automation solutions like Ansible and/or Chef.
• Expert understanding of Java application servers.
• Expert experience with Linux RPM repositories such as YUM, PULP,and RedHat Satellite.
• Track record of practical problem solving, excellent communication, and documentation skills
• Strong collaboration skills and team player.
• Good written and verbal communication ability.
• Scripting (Python, Ruby, Bash, or other common scripting language).
• VMware, Docker and Kubernetes or other containerized solution.
• CDN such as Akamai, Cloudflare or other.
• Scripting (Python, Ruby, Bash, or other common scripting language).
• VMware, Docker and Kubernetes or other containerized solution.
• CDN such as Akamai, Cloudflare or other.
• Experience in problem solving and troubleshooting network latency and connectivity issues.
• Experience developing operational automation in a distributed environment.
• Knowledge of performing database queries across database platforms.
• Knowledge of automated and centralized job scheduling.
• Experience in a mixed on-premises and cloud environment.

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Working at Amadeus, you will find:
🎯 A critical mission and purpose - At Amadeus, you will be powering the future of travel and pursuing a critical mission and extraordinary purpose.
🌎 A truly global DNA - Everything at Amadeus is global, from our people to our business, which translates into our footprint, processes, and culture.
🎓 Great opportunities to learn - Learning happens all the time and in many ways at Amadeus, through on-the-job training, formal learning activities, and day-to-day interactions with colleagues.
🤗 A caring environment - Amadeus fosters a caring environment, nurturing both a fulfilling career and personal and family life. We care about our employees and strive to provide a supportive work environment.
💰 A complete rewards offer - Amadeus provides attractive remuneration packages, covering all essential components of a competitive reward offer, including salary, bonus, equity, and benefits.
🌟 A flexible working model - We want our employees to do their best work, wherever and however it works best for them.
🌈 A diverse and inclusive community - We are committed to leveraging our uniquely diverse population to drive innovation, creativity, and collaboration across our organization.
📈 A Reliable Company - Trust and reliability are fundamental values that drive our actions and shape long-lasting relationships with our customers, partners, and employees.
Application process:
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Diversity & Inclusion
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