Site Reliability Engineer

Practicum is an international online educational platform. We believe everyone can jumpstart a new career, which is why we produce quality educational content and offer intensive courses in tech complete with full access to an interactive platform, code reviews, and support from industry practitioners.

Our team develops and operates the infrastructure all our services live on. We strive to apply the best SRE practices, minimize routine work, and automate operations.

Practicum is actively entering the education market of the USA, Israel and other countries. We are looking for engineers who will help our friendly team grow quickly and withstand growing loads.

Stack:

• AWS
• Kubernetes
• GitLab CI
• Ansible
• Terraform
• Ubuntu
• TCP/IP
• REST API
• gRPC
• Python / Go
• AWS, ELK Stack, Prometheus, GitLab, Vault
• K8s, Helm, Ansible, Argo CD, Terraform
• EC2, EKS, S3, EFS, RDS, Lambda, Route 53
• Postgres, Elasticsearch, Redis
• Python, Golang

Responsibilities:

• Develop infrastructure, and write solutions to simplify operations.
• Build processes to achieve and maintain 99.99% uptime, and improve the exercise process.
• Develop automation and service reliability, plan resources, and reduce ops in development.
• Build infrastructure and monitoring, help developers solve infrastructure problems, train developers to solve problems independently, and improve the observability of infrastructure, monitoring, schedules, and alerts.

Benefits:

• Full-time work with a schedule that s convenient for you and the team. There isn t a focus on micromanaging.
• Relocation to Belgrade, Serbia (relocation bonus + visa support are included).
• Remote option is discussable if you prefer to work in another location.
• Extended medical insurance for employee and 80% compensation of insurance for family members (if you join our team in Serbia).
• Growth. Our product is expanding quickly, so it's a great time to get on board and challenge yourself.
• Diverse and tight-knit team which is spread out across the US, Israel, LatAm, Asia and more!

Requirements :

• 2+ years of DevOps / SRE experience.
• Experience working with Kubernetes, GitLab CI, and Ansible.
• Experience working with Unix systems (we have Ubuntu) and the console.
• Understanding the basics of TCP/IP to build networks, how web services work, REST API, and gRPC.
• Experience performing diagnostics, including interpreting the output of Ps, Top, Strace, Perf, and TCPDump.
• Understanding of how user applications interact with the operating system, including familiarity with system calls, processes, and threads.
• Willingness to build high-load systems and understanding of how to do that.
• Understanding of fault tolerance and service scaling.
• Ability to find common ground with colleagues and work as part of a team.

As advantage:

• Experience working with AWS and Terraform.
• Experience programming in Python / Golang or desire to learn how.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time