Sre Lead

Job Role : SRE Lead

Location : Remote
Candidate should be in Canada/USA
Candidate should work according to EST time zone and comfortable in onshore-offshore coordination.
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Responsibilities -
Design and implementation details reviewed/approved by Client SRE
Implementation to use current IAC assets where applicable and write new scripts as needed
For all new assets that are developed to be delivered, primary focus is on re-usability and extensibility
Implementation to utilize client toolsets, following clients established patterns
Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health
Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve
Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives
Work closely with customer Product owner, Architect and Managers for requirement understanding, design discussions and drive to the conclusion
Participate in PI planning meetings and work closely with team, Prioritise features
Able to Estimate the size of the EPICs / User Stories
Determining product requirements and develop EPICs/ User stories and groom
Analyse project briefs, requirements, and deliverables
Coordinate with offshore software development team to provide guidance and addressing technical issues
Working experience in Agile (SCRUM, SAFE) methodologies, Hands on experience in JIRA Tool
Implementing best practices and coding standards

Required Skills and Qualifications
10+ years of experience in Architecting, Coding, DevOps, IaC and SRE
Well-verse with OOP concepts and design patterns
Expertise in Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Jenkins, Istio, Apigee, VPC automation, GKE, Compute Engine and associated common GCP technologies
Capacity forecasting, sizing, performance and load testing
Exposure to Observability tools like Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Stackdriver, Splunk, etc.)
Exposure to standardized Change and Release Management practices
Complicated enterprise application architectures (N-Tier, Service Oriented Architecture) Bachelor s degree in computer science or other highly technical, scientific discipline
Ability to program (structured and OO) with one or more high level languages, such as Python, Java, C/C++, .NET, Ruby, and JavaScript
Experience with distributed storage technologies like NFS, HDFS, Ceph, S3 as well as dynamic resource management frameworks (Mesos, Kubernetes, Yarn)
Experience on at least one cloud provider i.e. Azure, AWS and GCP is desired (Preferrable GCP)"