# Site Reliability Engineer at Strike

Site Reliability Engineer at Strike in Remote. Remote. Posted May 11, 2021.

- Company: Strike
- Location: Remote
- Workplace: Remote
- Posted: 2021-05-11
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/strike/jobs/4015660004
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/site-reliability-engineer-strike-hjw6vw

## Requirements

- Extensive experience with minimum 5 years in SRE, platform engineering, or software development with a strong operational focus.
- Demonstrated experience in providing technical leadership, guidance, or mentorship to engineering teams.
- Expert-level practical knowledge of cloud platforms, especially GCP.
- Deep hands-on experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD).
- Strong command of multiple scripting and programming languages (Python, Go, Bash).
- Proven expertise in building and leveraging advanced monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills at a senior level.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and influencing skills.
- Organizational and leadership skills are a big plus

## Description

### Better Money

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### Role

We are seeking a highly experienced Site Reliability Engineer located in Europe, with a strong track record of tackling complex reliability and scalability challenges, and a history of providing technical guidance to teams. If you're a seasoned problem-solver with a passion for automation and operational excellence, and enjoy elevating the skills of those around you, we want to hear from you.

### **While we’re not actively hiring for this role at the moment, we’re always interested in connecting with great people and building our talent pool for future opportunities.**

### **What You'll Do:**

- **Lead Technical Initiatives:** Drive key technical initiatives focused on improving the reliability, performance, and scalability of our critical systems, often leading technical aspects within projects.

- **Architect and Implement Advanced Solutions:** Design and implement sophisticated resilient and scalable solutions, leveraging your deep understanding of distributed systems.

- **Master Troubleshooting and Optimization:** Lead complex troubleshooting efforts, identify deep-seated root causes, and implement advanced optimizations.

- **Build and Evangelize Automation:** Develop and champion the adoption of robust automation frameworks and tools, potentially guiding more junior engineers in their development.

- **Elevate Observability Practices:** Design and implement comprehensive and insightful monitoring and logging solutions, ensuring actionable insights are available across teams.

- **Provide Leadership in Incident Management:** Take a leadership role in incident response, providing critical technical direction and mentorship during high-pressure situations.

- **Champion Post-Mortem Excellence:** Lead and contribute to in-depth blameless post-mortem analyses, driving significant improvements based on learnings.

- **Mentor and Guide Team Members:** Share your extensive knowledge and experience to mentor and guide other SREs and engineers, fostering their technical growth.

### **What We're Looking For:**

- Extensive experience with minimum **5 years** in SRE, platform engineering, or software development with a strong operational focus.

- Demonstrated experience in providing technical leadership, guidance, or mentorship to engineering teams.

- Expert-level practical knowledge of cloud platforms, especially GCP.

- Deep hands-on experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD).

- Strong command of multiple scripting and programming languages (Python, Go, Bash).

- Proven expertise in building and leveraging advanced monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).

- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills at a senior level.

- Excellent communication, collaboration, and influencing skills.

- Organizational and leadership skills are a big plus

### **Compensation and Benefits:**

- Location dependent

We do not make hiring decisions based on educational history whatsoever. Our Founder is a college dropout. We work with high school dropouts, PHD candidates and everything in-between. We do not hire credentials. We simply partner with talented, passionate individuals who are excited to be a part of our team.

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