Site Reliability Engineer for HHSC, Austin, TX

Austin, TX - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Title: Site Reliability Engineer
Agency: Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Solicitation:
Location: 4601 W. Guadalupe Street Austin TX 78701.
Duration: On-going no ending date
Visa: Must be US Citizen Green Card EAD. No H1B
Telework Policy: The working position is Hybrid - On Site and Telework. Position will be 3 days remote with 2 days (Mondays and Thursdays) required to be onsite at the location listed above. Program will only accept LOCAL ONLY candidates for this position.

REQUIRED/PREFERRED SKILLS:

8 years Required - experience in systems engineering DevOps or site reliability engineering roles
8 years Required - Strong experience with Linux/Unix systems and system internals
8 years Required - Proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages (Python Go Java Bash)
8 years Required - Experience designing and operating highly available distributed systems
8 years Required - Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS or GCP) and cloud-native services
8 years Required - Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes)
8 years Required - Strong understanding of monitoring alerting and logging concepts
8 years Required - Experience defining and managing SLIs SLOs and error budgets
8 years Required - Familiarity with incident management root cause analysis (RCA) and postmortems
8 years Required - Experience integrating security and compliance into operational workflows
4 years Preferred -Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus Grafana Application Insights Datadog Splunk)
4 years Preferred -Experience operating 24x7 production environments with on-call rotations

Site Reliability Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the reliability availability performance and scalability of production systems by applying software engineering practices to infrastructure and operations. Partners with development teams to build resilient observable and automated platforms that meet defined service level objectives (SLOs).

8 or more years of experience relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals independently performs a variety of complicated tasks a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
Understands business objectives and problems identifies alternative solutions performs studies and cost/benefit analysis of alternatives.
Analyzes user requirements procedures and problems to automate processing or to improve existing computer system: Confers with personnel of organizational units involved to analyze current operational procedures identify problems and learn specific input and output requirements such as forms of data input how data is to be; summarized and formats for reports.
Writes detailed description of user needs program functions and steps required to develop or modify computer program.
Reviews computer system capabilities specifications and scheduling limitations to determine if requested program or program change is possible within existing system.

Texas Health and Human Services Commission requires the services of 1 Systems Analyst 3 hereafter referred to as Candidate(s) who meets the general qualifications of Systems Analyst 3 Applications/Software Development and the specifications outlined in this document for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.

All work products resulting from the project shall be considered works made for hire and are the property of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and may include pre-selection requirements that potential Vendors (and their Candidates) submit to and satisfy criminal background checks as authorized by Texas law. Texas Health and Human Services Commission will pay no fees for interviews or discussions which occur during the process of selecting a Candidate(s).

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Required Experience:

Title: Site Reliability EngineerAgency: Texas Health and Human Services CommissionSolicitation: Location: 4601 W. Guadalupe Street Austin TX 78701.Duration: On-going no ending dateVisa: Must be US Citizen Green Card EAD. No H1BTelework Policy: The working position is Hybrid - On Site and Telework. P...

8 years Required - experience in systems engineering DevOps or site reliability engineering roles
8 years Required - Strong experience with Linux/Unix systems and system internals
8 years Required - Proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages (Python Go Java Bash)
8 years Required - Experience designing and operating highly available distributed systems
8 years Required - Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS or GCP) and cloud-native services
8 years Required - Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes)
8 years Required - Strong understanding of monitoring alerting and logging concepts
8 years Required - Experience defining and managing SLIs SLOs and error budgets
8 years Required - Familiarity with incident management root cause analysis (RCA) and postmortems
8 years Required - Experience integrating security and compliance into operational workflows
4 years Preferred -Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus Grafana Application Insights Datadog Splunk)
4 years Preferred -Experience operating 24x7 production environments with on-call rotations

8 or more years of experience relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals independently performs a variety of complicated tasks a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
Understands business objectives and problems identifies alternative solutions performs studies and cost/benefit analysis of alternatives.
Analyzes user requirements procedures and problems to automate processing or to improve existing computer system: Confers with personnel of organizational units involved to analyze current operational procedures identify problems and learn specific input and output requirements such as forms of data input how data is to be; summarized and formats for reports.
Writes detailed description of user needs program functions and steps required to develop or modify computer program.
Reviews computer system capabilities specifications and scheduling limitations to determine if requested program or program change is possible within existing system.