Site Reliability Engineer at AutoTrader

The SRE’s primary focus is on the infrastructure that our applications live on. This includes the systems and services involved in storing application data and its movement within the ecosystem. They plan and architect scalable and fault tolerant infrastructures with considerations for outages, backup and disaster recovery. Driven by automation, they ensure uptime and system health through various mechanisms including monitoring dashboards and alerting tools. Ensures systems are secure, efficient, and resilient. Kept up to date and following best practices. Making sure we’re always using the right tools for the job.

What to expect

• Working alongside some of the most brilliant minds in the industry, you will be part of a cross-functional agile team that contributes to building Trader’s digital advertising platform


• Taking part in daily agile ceremonies, brainstorm on innovative ideas that challenge the status quo and helping to implement solutions


• Acting as an advocate for ownership & high quality, contributingdirectly to the growth and health of the systems infrastructure


• Raising the bar and elevate your teams by sharing knowledge and best practices, while always seeking improvements and facilitating progress

What you’ll be bringing to the team

• University Degree in a relevant field, or equivalent experience


• Experience designing and maintaining reliable, highly available and scalable infrastructures


• 5+ years of professional experience working with software development teams


• Previous experience in an SRE or DevOps role


• Expert knowledge in Cloud architecture and services


• Knowledge of security best-practices and processes


• Knowledge of various data source solutions and data pipeline implementations


• Experience with containerization and process automation


• Experience setting up and maintaining deployment &CI/CD pipelines


• Experience with incident management or on call support


• Experience implementingmonitoring and alerting systems and dashboards

Even better if you have, but not necessary:

• Programming language knowledge and experience
  


• Experience with monolith as well as microservice or general service-based architectures


• Familiar with online advertising campaign concepts

Who you are:

• A team player


• You’re a problem solver that does not shy away from tackling complexsituations


• You have a strong will to learn, grow and get out of your comfort zone


• You have great energy and passion for technology

Technology keywords: Infrastructure Design & Management,Cloud, GCP,Automation, Docker, Kubernetes, Server, Cluster, Monitoring, Alerting, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Microservices, APIs, Gateways, Data/ETL Pipelines, Security, Data Source Management, MySQL, BigQuery, SLA.