Senior Cloud Engineer - SRE

The Cloud Engineering team at Seismic is responsible for infrastructure deployed through infrastructure-as-code and gitops practices across all major clouds. The SRE Team within Cloud Engineering advances the Seismic DevOps Model by solving challenging problems, addressing inefficiencies, and enabling developer effectiveness through the adoption and maturation of DevOps capabilities.  The SRE team works remotely across North America by leveraging collaboration tools and agile methodologies.  We balance day-to-day support for our application development teams with our planned objectives.  Objectives align to a clear vision across themes of Global Scalability, Operational Cost Efficiency, & Infrastructure and Workload Reliability.

Who You Are:

• Experienced working in a cloud environment in a role of site reliability engineer or software development engineer with infrastructure exposure.
• High level of competency with at least one cloud platform, ideally multiple, such as Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, or IBM Cloud.
• Production level use of Terraform, Shell/Bash, and Python (or Go, Java, Ruby–another non-Shell programming language).
• Have a strong knowledge of Linux, kubernetes, networking, and infrastructure fundamentals.
• Detailed understanding of DevOps Capabilities and their importance in enabling high performing teams.
• Comfortable asking questions and respectfully voicing your opinion in group settings.
• Comfortable providing and discussing a recommendation after evaluating multiple solutions.

What you'll be doing:

• Establish production readiness practices to reduce risk and improve reliability throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Communicate best practices and build out tools and frameworks to increase adoption of best practices.
• Work closely with application development teams and incorporate their feedback to improve developer experience and reduce toil.
• Present plans and proposals to Engineering Leadership.
• Contribute to the creation of SRE roadmaps.
• Lead projects as we execute objectives shared across our SRE teams.
• Develop tooling to manage infrastructure and deployments, mostly in Python
• Provide an elevated level of support to application teams.
• Provide guidance to less senior engineers.
• Participate in a 12 hours on, 12 hours off on-call rotation within the Cloud Engineering team (no overnights!)

Interview process

• Video call with a technical recruiter
• Video call with the hiring manager
• Take home assessment
• Two one-hour technical interviews with team members

What we have for you: (US & CANADA) 

• Take time to rest and recharge w/ paid time off, paid company holidays, and end of year company shutdown 
• Medical, dental, vision and 2x life insurance 
• Paid parental leave 
• Access to free paid telemedicine 
• Mental health + Employee Assistance programs w/ free counseling sessions 
• Bring Your Own Device technology stipend 
• Seismic Cares Program w/ charitable donation matching 
• $1,000 annual professional development reimbursement 
• Equity program and performance-based bonuses 
• Nine Communities of Belonging (aka employee resource/affinity groups) 
• Retirement savings plan with employer match (Canada) 
• 401k w/ employer match (US) 
• Health Savings Accounts with $1,000 Single/$2,000 Family employer contribution and employer-paid disability plans (US) 
• Pre-tax commuter benefits (US) 

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