Site Reliability Engineer

 

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About the role:

Adyoulike, an Openweb Company, is looking for an SRE / DevOps / Sysadmin profile to expand its Infrastructure team.

What You’ll Do:

• Ensuring the availability of various services, maintaining and improving them.

• Handling production deployments, being proactive, and anticipating infrastructure scaling needs.
• Listening to the needs of different teams and responding accordingly
• Promoting and enforcing a development methodology.
• Analyzing, recommending, and validating technical solutions.
• Administering and ensuring the continuous operation of Adyoulike's IT infrastructure.
• Optimizing infrastructure performance.
• Staying up-to-date with technological developments to ensure continuous infrastructure operation, especially production servers.
• Participating in the design and evolution of infrastructure architecture.
• Creating and maintaining comprehensive documentation of the infrastructure architecture and the team’s procedures.

 

Technical Environment:

 

• Containerization / Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes

• Databases / Streaming: Kafka, Aerospike, ScyllaDB, Postgres

• Frontend: Envoy, Nginx

• CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub

• Monitoring: Prometheus*, Grafana*, Kibana, ELK*, Datadog

• Cloud / Hosting: GCP*, AWS, OVH-Cloud

• Scripting: Bash, Python, Go

• Other tools: Ansible, Terraform*, Jira

*required

Some numbers:

• Infrastructure spread across 3 data centers (Europe & USA)

• 45 billion requests per day

• 480,000 events processed per second

• 24 TB of compressed data written daily

 

 

What You’ll Bring:

• Detail-oriented;

• Available and supportive towards other teams (dev, data, support, etc.);

• Highly autonomous;

• Able to quickly adapt to new needs and technologies;

• Proactive and a source of ideas.

The following skills:

• A strong service-oriented mindset;

• Some experience with highly available architectures;

• A strong sense of responsibility;

• Knowledge of Apache Kafka and NoSQL databases (a strong plus);

• Strong diagnostic and troubleshooting skills.