Site Reliability Engineer
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Bulgaria, Poland
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Bulgaria, Poland
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(For Poland) We offer remote work from Poland or relocation to Bulgaria.
This job requisition is eligible for employment-based immigration sponsorship by VMware.
(For Bulgaria) There is an option for fully remote work within Bulgaria.
This job requisition is eligible for employment-based immigration sponsorship by VMware.
Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?
We are looking for a talented Site Reliability Engineer. You’ll be improving our CI/CD and monitoring codebase, automating complex problems and building new tools and integrations, as we move on to AWS and other Hyperscalers. You can enjoy our very well-established processes and pipelines, as we are striving for excellence. As a SRE Engineer you will be able to solve more complex problems in the area of automation and observability. You will be the guard and supporter for various RnD teams to meet our high standards for security and production grade microservices. You must be strict, strive for perfection and have attention to detail, when it comes to production readiness. In return we offer great career opportunities and interesting technology stack to work with, a place in a very well-sized team with supportive atmosphere, supportive culture, growth through challenging tasks and management attention and guidance.
Responsibilities
What You’ll Do?
Within a month:
You will have a learning buddy and start onboarding on our well-prepared documentation. Create accounts and access various systems.
Start fixing existing issues in our Staging Systems and prepare for Prod Support.
Get familiar with PageDuty, Jira Service Desk and our CI/CD pipelines.
Participate in our Scrum meetings.
Working with configuration management tools in Linux.
Second Month:
Start supporting our PROD System on-call rotation with help of the team.
Deep dive into Python and our automation framework system.
Start automating things. Take tasks from our backlog.
Conduct post-mortems to analyse and prevent repeatable failures.
Handle seamless upgrades of infrastructure and services through automation.
Half a Year :
Architecture and implementation of advanced cloud-based monitoring, alerting and reporting.
Work closely with software engineering teams to improve the availability of services, help migrations to our new version of the platform.
Maintain 99.995% availability of VMware’s global services platform.
Participate in roadmap planning and drive team initiatives in scope of automation and observability.
Identify, gather, analyse and automate responses to key performance metrics, logs, and alerts.
Ensure infrastructure security compliance like PCI, HIPPA ,SOC2.
What assignments and tasks will you be performing on a regular basis?
Manage code using a preferred scripting language – Bash and/or Python
Use Git and related workflows for code management
Supporting an enterprise-level SaaS environment. You must be comfortable as a driver of the SRE work end to end
Help RnD teams deliver their Microservices to the new version of the platform.
Follow procedures for different compliance standards – IL6 , PCI. SOC2 etc.
Strengthen observability and performance, apply critical security recommendations.
Automate everything you see as repeatable process, like patching and upgrades, auto-remediation.
Help with chaos engineering.
Within a month:
You will have a learning buddy and start onboarding on our well-prepared documentation. Create accounts and access various systems.
Start fixing existing issues in our Staging Systems and prepare for Prod Support.
Get familiar with PageDuty, Jira Service Desk and our CI/CD pipelines.
Participate in our Scrum meetings.
Working with configuration management tools in Linux.
Second Month:
Start supporting our PROD System on-call rotation with help of the team.
Deep dive into Python and our automation framework system.
Start automating things. Take tasks from our backlog.
Conduct post-mortems to analyse and prevent repeatable failures.
Handle seamless upgrades of infrastructure and services through automation.
Half a Year :
Architecture and implementation of advanced cloud-based monitoring, alerting and reporting.
Work closely with software engineering teams to improve the availability of services, help migrations to our new version of the platform.
Maintain 99.995% availability of VMware’s global services platform.
Participate in roadmap planning and drive team initiatives in scope of automation and observability.
Identify, gather, analyse and automate responses to key performance metrics, logs, and alerts.
Ensure infrastructure security compliance like PCI, HIPPA ,SOC2.
What assignments and tasks will you be performing on a regular basis?
Manage code using a preferred scripting language – Bash and/or Python
Use Git and related workflows for code management
Supporting an enterprise-level SaaS environment. You must be comfortable as a driver of the SRE work end to end
Help RnD teams deliver their Microservices to the new version of the platform.
Follow procedures for different compliance standards – IL6 , PCI. SOC2 etc.
Strengthen observability and performance, apply critical security recommendations.
Automate everything you see as repeatable process, like patching and upgrades, auto-remediation.
Help with chaos engineering.
Requirements
What past knowledge can you step on/can be helpful for future success?
S. in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience.
Solid understanding/experience of containers and container orchestration.
Excellent Troubleshooting Skills.
Solid understanding/experience of continuous integration and deployment practices and supporting infrastructure/architectures.
Working knowledge of the following:
AWS services, particularly EC2, VPC, IAM
VMware infrastructure background at user level.
Security Experience is a plus.
End to end understanding of observability and monitoring: ELK stack , Prometheus, AppDynamics and more.
Infrastructure as code, alerting as code.
Kubernetes or Docker
Act as a good team player with a sense of humor and always ready to help.
S. in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience.
Solid understanding/experience of containers and container orchestration.
Excellent Troubleshooting Skills.
Solid understanding/experience of continuous integration and deployment practices and supporting infrastructure/architectures.
Working knowledge of the following:
AWS services, particularly EC2, VPC, IAM
VMware infrastructure background at user level.
Security Experience is a plus.
End to end understanding of observability and monitoring: ELK stack , Prometheus, AppDynamics and more.
Infrastructure as code, alerting as code.
Kubernetes or Docker
Act as a good team player with a sense of humor and always ready to help.
What we offer
What are the benefits and perks of working at VMware?
You and your loved ones will be supported with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. Below are some highlights, or you can view the complete benefits package by visiting www.benefits.vmware.com.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Medical Coverage, Retirement, and Parental Leave Plans for All Family Types
Generous Time Off Programs
40 hours of paid time to volunteer in your community
Rethink’s Neurodiversity program to support parents raising children with learning or behavior challenges, or developmental disabilities
Financial contributions to your ongoing development (conference participation, trainings, course work, etc.)
Wellness reimbursement and online fitness and wellbeing classes
As part of the VMware global standards for integrity you will be required to go through a pre-employment screening process before you join.
All job applications will be treated with strict confidentiality.
VMware Company Overview: At VMware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlessly. Our cloud, mobility, and security software form a flexible, consistent digital foundation for securely delivering the apps, services and experiences that are transforming business innovation around the globe. At the core of what we do are our people who deeply value execution, passion, integrity, customers, and community. Shape what’s possible today at http://careers.vmware.com.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: VMware is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: VMware is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at VMware are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. VMware will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. VMware encourages applicants of all ages. Vmware will provide reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law.
You and your loved ones will be supported with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. Below are some highlights, or you can view the complete benefits package by visiting www.benefits.vmware.com.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Medical Coverage, Retirement, and Parental Leave Plans for All Family Types
Generous Time Off Programs
40 hours of paid time to volunteer in your community
Rethink’s Neurodiversity program to support parents raising children with learning or behavior challenges, or developmental disabilities
Financial contributions to your ongoing development (conference participation, trainings, course work, etc.)
Wellness reimbursement and online fitness and wellbeing classes
As part of the VMware global standards for integrity you will be required to go through a pre-employment screening process before you join.
All job applications will be treated with strict confidentiality.
VMware Company Overview: At VMware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlessly. Our cloud, mobility, and security software form a flexible, consistent digital foundation for securely delivering the apps, services and experiences that are transforming business innovation around the globe. At the core of what we do are our people who deeply value execution, passion, integrity, customers, and community. Shape what’s possible today at http://careers.vmware.com.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: VMware is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: VMware is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at VMware are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. VMware will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. VMware encourages applicants of all ages. Vmware will provide reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law.
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