Site Reliability Engineer - Windows Server

Responsibilities and Deliverables

•    Hands on experience monitoring, managing, and maintaining high availability web systems (Windows and Linux) as a System Administrator Engineer.

•    Follow and champion ITIL Best Practices and Standards.

•    Maintenance of data backups and Disaster Recovery Plans.

•    Good Understanding of networking (VNET, Subnet, private link, VNET peering).

•    Working with Networking, certificates, Oauth, AzureAD, ASE, ASP, AKS, Azure Apps, Load Balancers, Application gateway, Firewall, Load balancer, API Management, SqlServer, Databases on Azure

•    Leverage the use of industry standard tools including: - DataDog or New Relic or Log Analytics or Azure Monitor or Application Insights, etc. to ensure that our customers enjoy outstanding service.

•    Implement routine Service Requests, with an expectation that future requests will be automated where possible.

•    Supervise Windows, Network, and Infrastructure trends to ensure that we are ready to scale with encouraged rapid growth.

•    Developing and create scripts for configuration and infrastructure deployment. Strong scripting knowledge required (Bash, PowerShell or Python).

•    Design and deploy CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Octopus, Ansible, Jenkins, Azure DevOps).

•    Create infrastructure as code scripts (Terraform, ARM Templates, Cloud Formation, etc.).

•    Become a resource for knowledge of emerging and existing Cloud Technologies with and focus on Azure.

•    Hands on experience in analyzing Application logs, IIS logs, System logs and security logs using event views and log manager.

•    Handling all activities following secure practices (SSL, Certificates, Key Vault, Secret Variables/Arguments).

•    AWS knowledge is a must-have.

•    Become a resource for knowledge of emerging and existing Cloud Technologies with and focus on Azure/AWS.

Organizational Alignment

•    Reports to the Director, Cloud DevOps Support.

•    Builds and manages relationships with multi-functional teams within the organization

Technical Proficiencies

•    Proficient in supervising and logging tools such as New Relic or Application Insights or AppDynamics or DataDog.

•    Experience with maintenance and administration of Windows, Linux Servers, and Kubernetes.

•    Experience with automation using scripting languages, such as PowerShell, YAML, JSON or similar.

•    Configuration management experience – Ansible, Terraform, Azure Automation Run book or similar.

•    Experience with SQL Server database maintenance and administration (preferred).

Experience

•    5 Year+ of experience as a System Administrator

•    Have demonstrated ability supporting and building high availability Windows/Linux servers.  Emphasis on supporting the WISA stack (Windows/IIS/SQL Server(MS)/ASP.net)

•    3+ years of experience working with cloud technologies including Azure, AWS

•    1+ years of experience working with container technology including docker and Kubernetes