Site Reliability Engineer, Delivery

Requirements

As an ideal candidate you will have

• Boundless curiosity and a demonstrable ability to learn
  
• Experience working on large scale systems
  
• Experience optimizing Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment pipelines as well as the tooling and processes that go with them
  
• Hands on experience with Kubernetes
  
• A strong application and systems observability background
  

Requirements

As an ideal candidate you will have

• Boundless curiosity and a demonstrable ability to learn
  
• Experience working on large scale systems
  
• Experience optimizing Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment pipelines as well as the tooling and processes that go with them
  
• Hands on experience with Kubernetes
  
• A strong application and systems observability background
  

SRE's with Delivery: Orchestration specialization work alongside Backend Engineers with a focus primarily on improving release management tooling and processes. While the backend engineers approach their responsibilities from a software developer point of view, the SRE's approach the same problems from the operational perspective and collaborate closely on finding an optimal solution that will safely and quickly deliver code to various supported environments.

• Guarantees the GitLab Release Process
  
• Creates new tools to automate the release process
  
• Builds new GitLab release features to replace existing custom tooling
  
• Works with individual teams on defining and implementing solutions that will help them release quicker
  
• Creates frameworks that allow engineers to write code that scales with demand
  
• Helps teams instrument their code and helps recognize parts of code that could benefit from increased observability
  
• Works closely with peer Infrastructure teams to control the impact of application code running in user facing products
  
• Helps communicate the release schedule clearly with others
  
• Develop monitoring and alerting to measure release process velocity
  
• Identify process bottlenecks and introduce optimizations