Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. WebstaurantStore is the largest online distributor of restaurant supplies and equipment, hosting an expansive catalogue delivered through dependable shipping. They are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer with a focus on on-premise Kubernetes/K8s to enhance their in-house technological solutions.
Responsibilities
- Manage and build on-premises clusters, working with underlying Kubernetes infrastructure
- Research new platforms and assist in decision making regarding chosen technologies
- Deploy resources with a CI/CD platform (Argo-CD, Gitlab-CD, Flux, etc.)
- Manage deployments with Helm and Kustomize
- Troubleshoot pods, nodes, deployments, etc
- Utilize secrets management platforms such as Sealed Secrets and HashiCorp Vault
- Manage persistent storage using Rook / Ceph, NFS, etc
- Configure ingress controllers such as HAProxy, Nginx, Traefik, etc
Skills
- 3+ years in a SRE or SRE-adjacent role with hands-on experience managing and building on-prem Kubernetes clusters
- Experience researching and guiding a team in selecting chosen technologies within an enterprise level environment
- Configuration management (Ansible, Terraform, etc.)
- Handling and responding to production incidents
- Operating within a Linux environment
- Maintaining version control. (We use Git, but if you've never used it, we can train you)
- Participating in on-call rotation. (The effort we put into reliability keeps the on-call volume low)
- Access to a reliable and secure high-speed internet connection. Cable or fiber internet connections (at least 75mbps download/10mbps upload) are preferred, as satellite connections often cannot support the technologies used to perform day-to-day tasks
- Access to a home router and modem
- A dedicated home office space that is noise- and distraction-free. The space should have strong wireless connection or a wired Ethernet connection (wired connection is preferred, if possible)
- A valid, physical address (apartment, suite, etc.). PO Boxes are not supported, as a physical address is required for you to receive your computer equipment
- The desire and ability to work and communicate with other team members via chat, webcam, etc
- Legal residents of one of the following states: (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NM, NV, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WI, WV, and WY)
- Use of observability tools (OpenTelemetry/OTEL preferred)
- Programming/scripting languages, preferably Python and/or Golang
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