Senior SRE (ACDC Platform / Infrastructure Automation)

Quick Facts

• Primary focus: designing and developing automation with Ansible
• Scope: enterprise-scale infrastructure; Infrastructure as Code lifecycle; reliability/observability; technical leadership and incident response

Description

• Architect and build automation solutions using Ansible to manage large enterprise infrastructure and eliminate operational toil.

• Own the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) lifecycle by managing and enhancing IaC solutions using Terraform, Ansible, and SaltStack so infrastructure is versioned, repeatable, and scalable.

• Engineer for ultimate reliability by designing, developing, and operating backend services with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance, including proactive observability (monitoring, logging, alerting).

• Become a technical leader and mentor as a subject matter expert for core platform systems, guiding other engineers and sharing best practices in automation and reliability.

• Solve the toughest problems by collaborating with software, infrastructure, and platform teams to troubleshoot complex production issues, acting as a technical resource during incident response, and participating in an on-call rotation.

Requirements

• Expert in Ansible, with hands-on experience developing playbooks, creating custom roles, and managing complex, enterprise-scale configurations.

• Deep understanding and practical experience with Infrastructure as Code principles and tools such as Terraform, SaltStack, Chef, or Puppet.

• Advanced, expert-level skills in Linux engineering and administration, with the ability to design, build, and deploy software and infrastructure at massive scale.

• Strong background as a Site Reliability Engineer or Software Engineer with significant experience working on large-scale, distributed systems.

• Track record of developing automation and internal tools to improve reliability and operational efficiency.

• Excellent communicator and collaborator; able to work across teams and mentor others on SRE best practices.