Site Reliability Engineer - Production Ops, Python/bash, Containers (docker/kubernetes) Job in Vmware

Job Description

BUSINESS SUMMARY

VMware is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility. Built on VMware's industry-leading virtualization technology, our solutions deliver a brave new model of IT that is fluid, instant and more secure. Customers can innovate faster by rapidly developing, automatically delivering and more safely consuming any application. With Fiscal 2019 revenues of $8.97 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers and 75,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

At its best, VMware is a place, where we are valued for the complete people we are, where extraordinary progress is achieved for ourselves, our teams, our company, our customers, and our communities and where even more progress is desired and expected. VMware is a powerful platform for all of who we are individual, colleague, pioneer, citizen a place where empowerment, accountability, and responsibility become the traits of ownership, and where each of us can own our future and achieve success through our own actions, on our terms. With 20,000+ employees and 50+ locations worldwide, we are a passionate, innovative and driven group inspired to make a difference in the industry and our communities.

JOB ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Are you passionate about availability and performance? Do you strive for maximum efficiency in everything you do, no matter how trivial it seems to others? Do you like solving hard problems, and then automating them away? If you answered yes to all of these questions then you may be the person we are looking for.

The Skyline Site Reliability Engineering team brings a software engineering perspective to delivering quality operations at scale, driving automation in every aspect of the job. We collaborate with Engineering and Operations teams, as equals, to provide optimal production services to our customers.

As a member of our team, your expertise will delight customer by providing reliable, performant services.

AS AN SRE YOU WILL:

- Ensure that production SLAs are defined, measured, monitored and maintained
- Measure product quality through automated end-to-end testing, performance testing and code coverage
- Assist in maintaining best practices for CI/CD
- Participate in resolving production incidents
- Look for opportunities to improve all engineering processes
- Modify automation for deploying and operating production services

REQUIRED SKILLS

- 2+ years of professional experience in Site Reliability or similar discipline
- Familiarity with distributed systems theories, such as Microservices and the 12 Factor App
- Experience operating services in IaaS/PaaS/Cloud environments
- Comfortable programming in modern scripting languages
- Passionate about measurement, observability and early detection of issues
- Participation in a global 24x7 on-call rotation
- Composed urgency in stressful situations
- Strong interpersonal skills

PREFERRED SKILLS

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
- Familiarity with code coverage tools and methodologies
- Familiarity with performance testing tools and methodologies
- Technological curiosity, open source contribution, or an interesting personal GitHub page