Principal Site AWS Reliability Engineer - Marlborough, Massachusetts

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Job Description for Principal Site AWS Reliability Engineer

As a site reliability engineer, you will ensure the proper accessibility and functionality of the production environment. You will be a key member of the team taking on complex assignments where independent action and a high degree of initiative are required to resolve problems and develop recommendations. You will understand the challenges around rapidly building, scaling, and managing distributed applications and services, and will collaborate with hardworking engineers across multiple disciplines to address those challenges. Our services are deployed in an Amazon Web Services environment, and so you will be working hands on with many AWS components. You will design operational processes and solutions to actively address issues before they become customer facing.

This is a hands-on position with a strong emphasis on coding and regular production support. You are comfortable learning new technologies. You thrive in true-agile, highly paced, customer facing environment. You have a low tolerance for mediocrity. We are looking for folks that thrive in an all hands on deck startup mentality, just like us! You should be ambitious, confident, and ready to contribute in a dynamic production facing environment.

· Provide advanced support for incident resolution for technical problems involving the full application stack
· Track down defects and come up with creative solutions to improve reliability and availability
· Identify persistent or recurring problems and recommend creative solutions
· Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability and reliability of our cloud services
· Propose, design, test, and implement strategic operational system solutions
· Automate Operations functions (Cloud deployments, upgrades, capacity additions)

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:
·  Minimum 5 years in a Windows/UNIX-based large-scale web operations role
·  Minimum 5 years experience with at least one high level programming language like Python, Ruby, or Java (Python is desirable)
·  Minimum 4 years advanced-level experience with Windows/Linux
·  Minimum 3 years experience with AWS cloud native services using EC2, S3, ECS, SQS, API Gateway, Lambda, etc. including with AWS data analytics and processing services a plus.
·  Minimum 3 years experience with relational databases and NoSQL (SQL, Redshift, DynamoDB, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:
·  Knowledge of automation tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, etc. in a production environment
·  BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical knowledge

Professional Skill Requirements:

·  Experience with Custom Applications, deployments, and configuration
·  Experience with cloud services a strong plus
·  Strong analytic, problem solving skills required
·  Extraordinary ability and motivation to solve problems and learn fast
·  Ability to perform at a high level within a technical team
·  Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
·  Excellent communication and relationship skills
·  Distributed teamwork
·  Ability to quickly learn and develop expertise in highly complex existing applications and architectures
·  Deep understanding of the challenges with building, scaling, and running distributed applications and services
·  Familiarity with application profiling, system scalability, monitoring and performance
·  Trouble-shooting skills that span systems, network, storage, and code
·  Obtain complete knowledge of our complex applications
·  Transfer knowledge, train, and coach others in area of expertise

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