Senior/Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Sre)

*****For a Leading Global Inventory & Data Collecting Services Company (*Partnered with Majority of Leading Retailers Worldwide!)*****

Job Overview:

Title: Senior/Principal SRE

Location: Mississauga (3 days in office 2 days remote)

Rate: 80-90 per hour INC (Incorporated)

Contract Length: 6 months to start + 6 month extension(s)

Interview Process: 60min - Technical, Manager of SRE and SRE member, 2nd interview with Director of IT and VP & CTO and In-person meeting before offer (this is more of a formality than an interview, just wants to meet them in person before making an offer)

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

· 3+ years of experience as an SRE supporting production infrastructure.

· 5+ years of overall software engineering experience in a development environment.

· Bachelor’s degree in computer science and/or a wide range of relevant work experience.

· Extensive experience with Azure.

· Experience with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.

· Experience using IAC tools such as Terraform, Docker, Helm, Packer, Ansible, ARM.

· Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, YAML and Terraform.

· Experience with PowerShell and Shell scripting

· Experience managing observability tools such as Grafana, Kibana and Prometheus.

· Experience with enterprise-grade software.

· Experience with software development.

· Experience with microservices architecture.

· At least two years of experience managing Kubernetes production systems.

· Strong verbal and written communications skills Solid knowledge of web architecture and systems.

· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

What They Bring to the Role:

· Design and implement Kubernetes clusters according to business requirements, including scalability and security.

· Build and maintain Docker container for use in the AKS environment.

· Develop and maintain monitoring system to ensure the health and availability of SQL DBs, AKS clusters, file shares, service bus, web apps, etc. for production/Dev/Staging environments.

· Build and own infrastructure through code and work closely with development/systems/networking teams to automate CI/CD pipelines to remove repetitive manual process to simplify operational needs.

· Manage and optimize existing CI/CD pipelines.

· Design, architect and develop cloud-native solution using services like AKS, Azure SQL, Azure functions, service bus, data factory on Azure cloud platform.

· Streamline and maintain QA and DEV environments that allows our developers and quality assurance teams to work more effectively and efficiently.

· Create and maintain technical documentation and build books.

· Deploy application packages and new workloads to production environment.

· Perform regular DR drills and maintain DRP by collaborating with systems and development teams.

· Identify and diagnose deficiencies with existing systems, frameworks, tools, and processes, and recommend creative solutions based on best practices and industry standards.

· Create dashboards that provide visibility into production metrics.