Senior Site Reliability Engineer
PowerReviews works with more than 1,000 global brands and retailers to increase conversion and improve products and the customer experience with ratings and reviews and Q&A software. Ratings and reviews solutions from PowerReviews are essential for consumers as they search and shop online and in-store, and they are proven to increase online site-wide sales up to 17%.
Key Accountabilities
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will join a super-talented team of ops-focussed engineers that delivers world class cloud-based infrastructure to support our global customer base. You and the team will own the cloud infrastructure and design/build automated frameworks for code delivery to test and production environments, plan for growth, analyze and fix problems in real time, and design and implement secure networks.
Design and build the architecture to run PowerReviews applications
Work closely with dev teams to build highly available, cost effective systems
Own all cloud infrastructure:
Design and launch CloudFormation stacks in AWS, relying on Puppet, Ruby, and Linux
Create and harden custom Linux AMI’s
Manage various AWS services that we use including; DynamoDB, Redshift, SQS, VPC, EC2, S3, CloudFormation, ECR/ECS
Support and transition Rackspace platforms to AWS
Design the build, test and release frameworks for various technologies
Create new tools and scripts designed for auto-remediation of incidents
Write well documented and tested code intended for automated execution
Design platforms for extremely high uptime metrics
Implement log storage, monitoring, alerting and metrics gathering
Own the security posture of the platforms
Fully understand the application interactions
Requirements and Preferred Skills
5+ years of experience in site reliability, systems engineering, devops, or systems architecture on a high volume platform
Expert level Linux engineering skills
Experience with a majority of the following tools: Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Ruby, Python, Tomcat, Java, PostgreSQL, BASH scripting, service oriented architecture, public/private APIs, SSO, Git, Docker
Advanced, expert level knowledge of the Amazon Web Services platform. You should have built complex AWS implementations before.
Past experience writing automation tools
A strong understanding of what lies below application level abstractions
Mastery of documentation and diagramming
Thorough comprehension of networking, firewalls, load balancers, IPV4, security standards
Ability to hand-off platforms to Systems Engineers to run
Strong communicator: able to effectively work with remote engineers
A pragmatic approach to architecture and problem solving
Lifelong learner, not afraid to take on new technologies
Our Tech Stack
At PowerReviews we use lots of open source software and use Amazon Web Services (almost) exclusively. Our current stack consists of Linux, Java, Tomcat, Nginx, PostgreSQL, MySQL, ElasticSearch, React.js, Docker, and some Ruby on Rails. In AWS we make use of EC2, DynamoDB, RDS, Redshift, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, Elasticache, (both Redis and Memcached), Elastic Map Reduce, and Cloudfront. Other stuff we use includes Sumologic, Datadog, Selenium, and Packer.