Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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Location: This role will be remote in Australia

In this role, you will drive containerization of our entire platform, update our existing tooling and automation, and define our digital transformation within this team.

As a Staff SRE, every day you will work on major initiatives with other engineers and accomplish operations tasks.

To thrive in this role, you must have a can-do attitude with a solution-oriented approach, and an excitement to solve challenging problems.

Onwards Together!

Illumio, the pioneer and market leader of Zero Trust segmentation, prevents breaches from becoming cyber disasters. Illumio protects critical applications and valuable digital assets with proven segmentation technology purpose-built for the Zero Trust security model. Illumio ransomware mitigation and segmentation solutions see risk, isolate attacks, and secure data across cloud-native apps, hybrid and multi-clouds, data centers, and endpoints, enabling the world’s leading organizations to strengthen their cyber resiliency and reduce risk.  

Illuminate the future with Illumio and join a team that’s passionate about developing cutting-edge security solutions that protect the world's most critical assets. 

Our Team's Vision:

Our Engineering team is driven by a culture that thrives on visionary leadership, autonomy, and ownership, creating a dynamic synergy that drives us forward in the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity. 

When you join our team, you become part of the leader in Zero Trust Segmentation. You will work with a cutting-edge technology stack that spans operating systems, distributed applications, and immersive UI/visualization tools.  

We're shaping the future of cybersecurity. And together, we will continue to build world-class products—led by people with different perspectives, backgrounds, and a commitment to innovation in a time when the world faces its greatest cybersecurity threats in history. 

The Cloud Operations team at Illumio is working to deploy and manage our SaaS services by reducing human error, aggressively focusing on automation, and providing deep insight into application behaviour and health! We do that by incorporating aspects of software engineering and applying them to infrastructure and operations problems to create and manage scalable and reliable distributed software systems.

Your Impact: 

We are looking for a backend/platform or SRE engineer with a demonstrated track record of building secure, large scale, highly available services using automation and Infrastructure as Code, who is well versed in cloud architecture (with a focus on Kubernetes), and loves to delight the engineers they support.

This engineer will be an essential member of our Operations team, collaborating with the Platform and Data engineers to deliver the latest Illumio products.

The Cloud Platform SRE Engineer will be responsible for designing and deploying scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure. This individual must have a thorough understanding and experience with AWS and/or Azure clouds. The platform will be based on Kubernetes and is built using cloud native technologies. The Cloud Platform SRE is responsible for building, operating, and maintaining this platform. They are responsible for defining and meeting Platform SLOs, capacity utilization, cost visibility, security compliance etc. They are highly critical to the success of the Multi-cloud Platform.

• Driving reliability improvements back into applications

• Building code to resolve reliability/resiliency issues

• Mentor and educate team members to aid in strengthening technical expertise

• Collaborate closely with cloud architects to drive cloud solutions

• Curating proper SLI/SLOs to accurately measure or assess error budgets

• Embed with the development teams to assist with cloud methodologies when developing products to ensure that the deliverable is as reliable as possible

• Work with development teams to build and strengthen application security and compliance

• Manage high impact situations that involve technically challenging issues across diverse audiences and drive to find the root cause, mitigate, and identify a solution

• Focus on observability

Your Toolkit:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent work experience

• 6+ years of relevant SRE, DevOps, Platform or Infrastructure Engineering experience.

• 4+ years in production support role in a fast-paced industry/organization

• Experience deploying, tuning, and maintaining Linux-based, highly available, fault-tolerant web platforms in public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP

• Common monitoring, log aggregation, and metrics gathering platforms experience (Icinga, Sensu, Splunk, Telegraf/InfluxDB, et. al.)

• Configuration management & orchestration tools experience like Chef, Ansible, and AWS Services & APIs, or equivalent

• Experience scripting/coding with Python, Java, Ruby and/or Go.

• Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, or similar

• Solid knowledge of Linux operating system, Ubuntu, RHEL, OEL7 is required

• EKS and/or AKS frameworks

• Knowledge/Experience of Incident Management/on-call: PagerDuty

• Knowledge of Database Technologies, Release Management, REST, SRE, etc.

• Load balancers/ Traffic manager knowledge

• Experience working with Kubernetes, Docker, or other virtualization & containerization technologies

• Networking basics and trouble shooting skills

• Good understanding of Production deployment, Distributed Environments required

• Strong problem solving and operational process skills, attention to detail

• Application support and debugging experience in a dynamic fast-paced production environment 

• Experience with SDLC principles, architecture and operations.

• Experience working with senior leadership both inside and outside of engineering.

• Ability to manage multiple tasks and competing priorities to deliver projects on schedule

• Azure certifications such as Azure Administrator, Azure Developer, or AWS/GCP certifications are a plus

Benefits:

At Illumio we offer a wide range of benefits to our eligible team members. Our benefit programs vary by location and can include Medical, Dental, Vision Coverage – Health and Dependent Savings Accounts – Life and Disability Programs – Paid Parental Leave – Voluntary Benefit Programs – Company Sponsored Wellness Program – Wellness Reimbursement Program - Retirement Savings – Equity Opportunities – Paid time off and Paid Holidays – Employee Incentive Program. #LI-SL1 #LI-REMOTE

Our Commitment: 

Illumio believes that an environment of unique backgrounds, experiences, viewpoints, and individual contributions drives our success and makes us stronger together. We are dedicated to creating and maintaining a diverse culture and emphasizing inclusion and belonging.