Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Mumbai

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

This role is eligible for our hybrid work model: Two days a week in-office.

Our Technology team is the backbone of our company: constantly creating, testing, learning and iterating to better meet the needs of our customers. If you thrive in a fast-paced, ideas-led environment, you’re in the right place.

Why this job’s a big deal:
 

As Priceline caters to the global market, enhancing performance of highly scalable, high performance web-based products continues to be a main focus. We strive to build infrastructure and eliminate manual work through automation. Practices such as limiting time spent on operational work and proactive identification of potential outages factor into iterative improvement that is key to both product quality and interesting and dynamic day-to-day work.
 

In this role you will get to:

• Actively participate in deploying and supporting applications in our private and public cloud environment.

• Collaborate with development teams to support the current environment as we transform into a cloud architecture and provide resources “as a service” to developers

• Reduce manual intervention and turn-around time to solve for repetitive problems while automating and monitoring the health of Priceline’s commercial website.

• Develop software and provide hands-on technical knowledge to design, deploy, and optimize large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems.

• Improve, tune and perform operational efficiency within the Linux based infrastructure and production environment.

• Actively participate in deploying and supporting applications in our private and public cloud environment.

• Manage thousands of servers and hundreds of applications in multiple geo locations.

• Collaborate with development teams to support the current environment as we transform into a cloud architecture and provide resources “as a service” to developers.

• Reduce manual intervention and turn-around time to solve for repetitive problems while automating and monitoring the health of Priceline’s commercial website. 
   

Who you are:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or relevant experience.

• 4+ years working with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7/8 CentOS.

• Minimum 2 years of working experience in cloud environments, preferably GCP.

• Minimum 2 years of working experience in Kubernetes.

• Demonstrated experience in one or more of these scripting languages (Shell, Perl, Python & PowerShell scripting).

• Solid understanding of infrastructure scalability issues.

• Comfort with large scale production systems and technologies (load balancing, monitoring, distributed system and configuration management.

• General knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools and Configuration management tools Such as (Terraform/Ansible/Chef/Puppet).

• Taking ownership of automating, scripting, and tooling of new/existing scripts to help the team achieve 100% automation of daily tasks.

• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity management and launch reviews.

• Be part of an on-call rotation to support production system Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline: Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust. 

• The Right Results, the Right Way is not just a motto at Priceline; it’s a way of life. Unquestionable integrity and ethics is essential. 
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Who we are

Our success as one of the biggest players in online travel is all thanks to our incredible, dedicated team of talented employees. Priceliners are focused on being the best travel deal makers in the world, motivated by our passion to help everyone experience the moments that matter most in their lives. Whether it’s a dream vacation, your cousin’s graduation, or your best friend’s wedding - we make travel affordable and accessible to our customers. 

Our culture is unique and inspiring (that’s what our employees tell us). We’re a grown-up, startup. We deliver the excitement of a new venture, without the struggles and chaos that can come with a business that hasn’t stabilized.  

We’re on the cutting edge of innovative technologies. We keep the customer at the center of all that we do. Our ability to meet their needs relies on the strength of a workforce as diverse as the customers we serve. We bring together employees from all walks of life and we are proud to provide the kind of inclusive environment that stimulates innovation, creativity and collaboration.

Priceline is part of the Booking Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: BKNG) family of companies, a highly profitable global online travel company with a market capitalization of over $80 billion. Our sister companies include Booking.com, BookingGo, Agoda, Kayak and OpenTable. 

If you want to be part of something truly special, check us out! 

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