Senior System Administrator- SRE

Summary of role

• Helping setup the management procedures & tools for continuous software development, test and deployment; ensuring they are scalable and failure-resistant
• Creating/embedding failure management processes & tools so outages can be detected and handled with no / minimal loss of service availability
• Organizing the infrastructure health automated reporting across all systems and interfacing with business & technical (both internal) stakeholders for alerting + response.

Main responsibilities:

Design, validate, automate, and document many infrastructure management processus:

• Set-up & manage continuous integration, and constant deployment activities and tools (Git, Jenkins, etc), along with building own solutions when more efficient
• Encourage and build automated procedures wherever possible.

Inventory existing systems’ dependencies & scaling's bottlenecks and propose solutions to be discussed with the CTO and larger System Administrators team:

• Design, build and operate cloud services (e.g. AWS, Google, SoftLayer, Azure…)
• Ability to code and script in Linux / Unix environments.

Hunt and identify weak points & redundancy improvements opportunities, and propose then implement solutions:

• Monitor all Back-End infrastructure -Servers, APIs, Databases, Networks, etc.-
• Use industry standard “on the shelf” tools and in-house built solutions.

Additionally:

• Ensure that procedures are updated & relevant, that involved teams know and apply them (maintain a Knowledge Base, do Sharing sessions, run follow-up drills)
• Help write Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery white-books
• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate software code (Py, Go, etc.)

Non-technical duties:

• Work closely with the CTO to offload him on infrastructure projects and daily tasks
• Work in cooperation with Support & QA teams to improve our response time to incidents
• Support an Incident Management and Root Cause Analysis culture in Devs teams.