Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Fastly, CloudflareAkamai)

About the role :

The Cloud Center of Excellence (COE) is responsible for developing Gartners capabilities in automating and streamlining IT infrastructure processes and DevOps tasks while improving Gartners self-service capabilities using public cloud platforms and open-source technologies.

Deliver world class availability stability and performance of our digital products that guarantees a consistent and positive user experience for our customers

What you will do:

• Deliver world-class availability stability and performance for our digital products ensuring a consistent and positive user experience for customers.

• Establish multi-CDN architecture patterns traffic-steering strategies failover mechanisms and operational standards to achieve five-nines (99.999%) availability targets.

• Lead CDN incident response disaster recovery exercises capacity planning and performance optimization initiatives to ensure uninterrupted customer experiences during internet-scale events.

• Partner with Security Infrastructure and Application Development teams to implement and optimize edge security capabilities including DDoS protection WAF policies bot management and edge compute services.

• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to manage CDN configurations governance policies observability WAF rules and deployment processes.

• Design build and maintain global traffic management policies including DNS routing certificate management and load balancing to meet disaster recovery (DR) and high-availability (HA) requirements.

• Design and implement edge-computing solutions using Cloudflare Workers or equivalent technologies to address key application use cases.

• Define and monitor CDN-specific SLOs SLIs and KPIs including cache hit ratio origin offload latency availability and traffic distribution across providers.

• Identify opportunities to improve the performance scalability and stability of applications across the full technology stack.

• Participate in operational support and on-call rotations to provide timely incident response for supported systems and applications.

• Lead production incident resolution efforts triage application and system issues identify root causes and implement remediation measures to restore services quickly.

• Develop alerting strategies dashboards and reporting frameworks to communicate operational and business critical metrics.

• Identify opportunities to automate manual operational work (i.e. toil) using pipelines new software or any other appropriate mechanisms.

• Drive system design consulting platform management capacity planning and launch reviews. Partner with application teams to design and implement chaos engineering practices that improve resilience and fault tolerance.

• Establish strong relationships with development teams product owners and other stakeholders to define and manage Service Level Objectives (SLOs).

• Manage collaborate and share lessons learned regarding CDN architecture and deployments with all stakeholders including developers other SREs operations teams and project management teams.

• Improve customer experience and increase product value by enhancing the reliability availability and performance of client-facing applications and service

• Internal relationships are critical to establish with application development teams and technology teams such as database cloud/infrastructure and enterprise architecture.

What you will need:

Must Have

• Expert knowledge of one or two enterprise CDN platforms including Fastly Cloudflare CloudFront Akamai or equivalent technologies with hands-on experience designing operating and optimizing multi-CDN environments.

• Experience implementing multi-CDN routing and failover solutions using DNS GSLB traffic management platforms or real-user-performance (RUM) driven traffic steering.

• Experience in managing large-scale CDN platforms using Terraform/OpenTofu CI/CD pipelines or provider specific automation frameworks such as Fastly VCL Cloudflare APIs or equivalent.

• Experience with CI/CD pipeline governance code promotions and Infrastructure-as-Code best practices to enable consistent automated deployments across environments.

• Expertise in CDN observability performance analytics log analysis and troubleshooting user experience issues across global regions and internet service providers.

• Strong understanding of edge security services including WAF bot mitigation DDoS protection rate limiting and zero-trust access controls.

• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills coupled with strong verbal and written communication capabilities.

• Good To have:

• Demonstrated ability to adapt to changing priorities and technologies with a strong commitment to continuous learning and professional development.

• Experience in collaborating with Development Cloud and Architecture teams or other relevant teams to conduct RCA drive mission critical initiatives

• Experience building Cloudflare Workers and snippets AWS Lambda Edge functions Fastly VCL and Fastly Compute solutions.

• Experience with client-side technologies such as NodeJS JavaScript React jQuery and utilizing CDN features to improve UI performance

• Hands-on experience creating ACM certificates in Fastly Cloudflare or AWS.

• Exposure with monitoring tools like Splunk Grafana and APM tools such as Dynatrace or equivalent

• Proficient in Operating Systems (UNIX/Linux) & networking concepts.

• Exposure to Performance & chaos Engineering concepts

Who you are :

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related discipline or equivalent work experience.

• 8 years of information technology experience with 6 years working on DevOps/SRE team or similar with focus on CDN.

• Knowledge of Agile approaches to software development and ability to put key Agile principles into practice to deliver solutions incrementally.

• Excellent analytical thinking interpersonal oral and written communication skills with strong ability to influence both IT and business partners.

• Ability to prioritize and manage work to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment.

• Demonstrated experience in people management team leadership and fostering a positive team culture.
  

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