Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. EPAM Systems is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer with expertise in enhancing the reliability and performance of production environments. The role focuses on engineering dependable systems, minimizing operational toil, and supporting engineering teams in delivering reliable services.
Responsibilities
- Architect and deliver solutions that enhance system reliability, availability and performance
- Establish and track SLIs, SLOs and error budgets
- Develop automation that eliminates manual operational effort and recurring tasks
- Enhance monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting capabilities
- Engage in incident response, root cause investigation and postmortems
- Partner with development teams to strengthen service resilience and operability
- Maintain production systems and assist in resolving complex technical problems
- Contribute to capacity planning, performance tuning and disaster recovery efforts
- Advocate reliability engineering practices across teams
Skills
- Substantial background in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering or Production Engineering roles
- Practical experience operating production systems at scale
- Familiarity with cloud platforms including AWS, Azure or GCP
- Deep knowledge of observability tooling covering monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting
- Proven experience with incident management, postmortems and root cause analysis
- Solid scripting or programming abilities in Python, Go, Bash or comparable languages
- Working experience with Linux systems, networking and distributed systems fundamentals
- Familiarity with containers and orchestration platforms including Docker and Kubernetes
- Sound understanding of CI/CD, automation and Infrastructure as Code
- Excellent problem-solving abilities and capacity to perform under pressure
- Background in defining SLIs, SLOs and error budgets
- Hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, ELK or comparable tools
- Familiarity with Terraform or other IaC technologies
- Exposure to chaos engineering or resilience testing
- Experience with high-availability systems and disaster recovery planning
- Certifications in cloud or Kubernetes
Benefits
- Career plan and real growth opportunities
- Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
- Constant training, mentoring, online corporate courses, eLearning and more
- English classes with a certified teacher
- Support for employee’s initiatives (Algorithms club, toastmasters, agile club and more)
- Enjoyable working environment (Gaming room, napping area, amenities, events, sport teams and more)
- Flexible work schedule and dress code
- Collaborate in a multicultural environment and share best practices from around the globe
- Hired directly by EPAM & 100% under payroll
- Law benefits (IMSS, INFONAVIT, 25% vacation bonus)
- Major medical expenses insurance: Life, Major medical expenses with dental & visual coverage (for the employee and direct family members)
- 13 % employee savings fund, capped to the law limit
- Grocery coupons
- 30 days December bonus
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- 12 vacations days
- Official Mexican holidays, plus 5 extra holidays (Maundry Thursday and Friday, November 2nd, December 24th & 31st)
- Monthly non-taxable amount for the electricity and internet bills
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