Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

• Site Reliability Engineers are hybrid software and systems engineers. They are the glue holding things together, whether that’s infrastructure, security and software or teams and processes. 
• You will join Couchbase to lead the Cloud Platform & Production Pipeline Initiatives and work with our engineering team to optimize, implement and maintain our organization’s cloud-based systems.
• You will work with many software engineers and teams to ensure our cloud platform meets the needs of our organization and customers. 
• You will set the strategy and operational KPIs for the platform team and the applications supported by the cloud organization.
• You will have an immediate impact on the day-to-day efficiency of cloud operations and an ongoing impact on growth.

Responsibilities

• Manage, monitor and maintain the infrastructure for our cloud service, Capella, to be running reliably
• Manage cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines
• Collaborate with the Engineering teams to understand deployment practices and processes and work towards iteratively improving the CI/CD and release pipelines to ensure a highly resilient deployment strategy, ideally with zero downtime
• Stay up-to-date with new technologies and industry trends, and continuously improve the platform to meet the changing needs of the company
• Collaborate with development teams and application owners on the integration of security scanners in DevOps lifecycle, review their effectiveness and improve business cases to adapt to new threats.
• Take ownership of many controls, processes, and risks required to maintain our compliance portfolio (SOC 2, PCI-DSS, GDPR, and HIPAA, among others)
• Provide guidance (code reviews, architecture advice, technical feedback), thought leadership, and mentorship to development teams to improve service reliability, security, cost, and performance
• Demonstrate exceptional problem-solving skills, with an ability to identify and solve issues before they affect business productivity

 Requirements

• 5+ years experience in SRE/DevSecOps for a team operating on public cloud
• Proficiency with programming and scripting languages like Go, Python, Java, or Ruby
• High proficiency with Linux operating systems
• Experience in running, managing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters both self-managed (vanilla/plain k8s) & managed (preferably AWS EKS)
• Knowledge and understanding of Security topics such as vulnerability management, pen testing, SCA, DAST, SAST and Security tools such as Sysdig, Synk, Blackduck etc
• Proficient working with Terraform configuration management tools, version control systems (Git), integrating with CI/CD platforms and tool chains such as CircleCI, GitHub, Spinnaker etc
• Strong understanding of networking security concepts, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, Firewalls, VPNs etc
• Deep working experience on cloud platforms and open source software like Artifactory, Jira, Jenkins, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Thanos etc

 Preferred skills and qualifications

• Knowledge of end-to-end availability (SLO/SLA), reliability, and performance concepts
• Experience with on-call rotations & incident management
• Proficiency with Databases such as Couchbase is a plus.
• Security certifications are appreciated