Senior Site Reliability Engineer
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Wikimedia FoundationTechnology, Non-profit
USA, Europe; please note that we are currently able to hire in the following: US States: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia*, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico*, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming (*US Territory or Federal District). Countries: Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya*, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore*, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom., Global and asynchronously communicating team.Full-TimeSenior
Salary116,633 - 181,243 USD per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- AWSPythonGCPAzureGoPrometheusTerraformAnsibleGitLab
Requirements
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, or similar).
- Experience designing, operating, and optimizing cloud-based systems (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows (e.g., GitLab, ArgoCD).
- Familiarity with progressive delivery approaches like canary and blue-green deployments.
- Experience with incident response, on-call practices, and leading postmortems.
- Understanding of SRE best practices including SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
- Experience with observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).
- Strong documentation and communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a distributed, cross-functional environment.
Responsibilities
- Define, track, and improve Service Level Objectives (SLOs), SLIs, and error budgets.
- Build and enhance observability systems including metrics, logs, and distributed tracing.
- Drive reliability engineering practices like capacity planning, load testing, and chaos testing.
- Improve developer experience by enabling self-service infrastructure and streamlining deployment workflows.
- Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD and GitOps workflows using GitLab and ArgoCD.
- Implement secure-by-default infrastructure including IAM, secrets management, and encryption.
- Continuously optimize infrastructure cost and efficiency using FinOps principles.
- Establish and track operational metrics such as MTTR, MTTD, and incident frequency.
- Collaborate with a global and asynchronously communicating team.
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