6-month contract-to-hire | Deadline: ASAP

Job Description: https://www.dropbox.com/s/79cuc93m70tk4yt/JD%20SRE%20DevOps.docx?dl=0

Notes: Candidate must be able to convert to FTE after contract. No sponsorship is available for this position.

SRE DevOps

Chicago, IL

6-month contract-to-hire

The client is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer/Dev Ops Engineer to add to our dynamic and rapidly scaling team.We are investing in our team to optimize our digital ordering channels and technology innovations to create competitive advantages for our restaurants around the globe.We’re looking for solid engineers who bring fresh ideas from their own experience and are eager to tackle new problems across the stack.

We are looking for a candidate who is equally passionate about engineering software features and working through real-world operational challenges. In this role, the SRE will help drive the whole lifecycle of cloud services, from design, through deployment, operation, and optimization.We are looking for a candidate who understands what it takes to build a high availability SaaS offering on a public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure).

Site Reliability Engineer Job Duties

As an SRE/DevOps Engineer, you will:

• Help teams understand and improve system quality through automation, maturity of existing tools and processes, and adoption of new technologies.
• Support services before they go live through system design, capacity planning, testing, and launch reviews.
• Maintain services once they’re live by measuring & monitoring availability, latency, & overall system health
• Respond to incidents as they occur, discover & document root causes, and lead the effort to address them.
• Develop and integrate core DevOps tools for all development teams such as collaboration tools, software artifact and source code repository, application logging dashboards, monitoring and alerting capabilities, CI/CD pipelines, and more.
• Embrace and promotes a mentality of continuous improvement
• Automation, maturity, and adoption of:
  • Deployments
  • Deployment pipelines
  • Test frameworks
  • QE Processes
  • QE Tooling
  • System architecture
  • Test reliability
  • Monitoring, alerting, and reporting
    

Skills and Qualifications:

• BS Degree in Computer Science (or related technical field), or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of progressively responsible software development, testing, and/or systems architecture and DevOps experience
• 2+ years building and running docker containers in production environments
• Experience building and running a high availability SaaS offering in Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure and/or Google Cloud
• Experience designing and implementing end to end Continuous Delivery pipelines.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Release automation experience leveraging blue-green and canary deployment techniques
• Load and performance testing experience
• Experience improving overall system health with microservices
• Experience with root cause analysis of persistent problems
• Experience collaborating across multiple functional/technical teams to deliver a project.
• Demonstrated growth mindset, enthusiastic about learning new technologies quickly and applying the gained knowledge to address business problems.
• Ability to communicate with clients on a business level and translate their needs into a technical solution.