Senior Site Reliability Developer

Department: Cloud Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Canada, Canada, Canada - Flex (0006), Remote

How You'll Make an Impact

• ·Helping Vena's technology organization build scalable systems, using best practices around automation (reliability) and developer self-service (velocity).
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, planning and reviews. · Define and document runbooks and standard operating procedures.
• You will own and lead projects as part of the STO team’s delivery strategy.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
• Provide mentorship and training to other Vena SREs as well as members of the Product and Technology organization on emerging technologies and new processes, drive education and knowledge transfer of design patterns and technical practices.
• Drive high standards around incident response practices and policies with a focus on automated response and remediation.
• Participate in influencing and shaping the overall STO team culture.
• You are a subject-matter expert in one or more technologies leveraged by the Vena platform.
• Participate in technical interviews for technical positions within STO and occasionally extend into other positions within Vena’s product and technology organization.
• Participate in on-call rotation.

• A modern multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure, managed through infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and configuration-as-code (Ansible)
• CI/CD primarily through Azure DevOps, with Jenkins still supporting some legacy pipelines
• Containerized workloads on Amazon EKS, AWS ECS, and Azure Container Apps
• RDS MySQL, Redshift, Redshift Spectrum, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch
• Kinesis, SQS, and RabbitMQ (via CloudAMQP)
• Workflow orchestration with Temporal
• Identity and access management with Auth0
• DevOps tools written in Python
• Back-end applications written using Java, Dropwizard, Spring Boot, and Hibernate
• Front-end applications written using TypeScript, JavaScript, React (Context Api and Hooks), and Redux
• Observability and monitoring with Observe Inc. (via OpenTelemetry), CloudWatch, and Azure Monitor

We'd Love to See

• 6+ years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineer role.
• You ideally possess an Associate or Professional level certification from AWS or Microsoft Azure.
• You are adept at core SRE concepts such as SLO, SLIs and error budgets and have direct experience in implementing them.
• In-depth knowledge of cloud computing platforms (AWS and Azure) and solid experience of setup and management of cloud infrastructure using IaC and orchestration tools.
• You can write code - in any language. You have implemented your work in a production environment and can back it up with examples.
• In-depth experience with tools and platforms such as: AWS, Azure, Ansible, Artifact storage (such as Artifactory, ECR), Build/Release Pipelines (such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Gitlab, GH Actions, or equivalents), Docker, Github, Kubernetes, Terraform etc.
• Direct experience with large-scale distributed systems in the cloud using observability and telemetry for oversight of code deployments.
• Experience with the operational aspects of software systems using telemetry, centralized logging, and alerting with tools such as: CloudWatch, Observe Inc, Prometheus, etc.