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RakutenAs an experienced senior site reliability engineer, you will be involved in constructing, configuring, upgrading, and monitoring the systems that keep our services up and running in all environments. You should be adept at troubleshooting application issues at both the infrastructure and application level. You should practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems. Responsibilities include designing and building infrastructure and automation to rapidly deliver our web services, troubleshooting system and network failures as well as application crashes, creating CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins or similar, proactively engaging in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, performance analysis, and system tuning to identify potential issues before they happen, continuously optimizing operations and reducing risk through automation and process improvement, and acting as a technical expert to introduce new technologies and drive the adoption of these technologies.
- Bachelor’s degree (BS) in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent work experience - Experience deploying and managing large scale internet facing web services - Over 5 years of experience with DevOps processes, culture, and tools (e.g., Chef and Terraform) - Demonstrated experience measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health - Experience with monitoring tools like Elastic Stack (ELK) - Experience with CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins for release and operation automation - Strong sense of ownership, customer service, and integrity demonstrated through clear communication - Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes - Experience with the deployment, maintenance, and troubleshooting of self-managed Kubernetes clusters - Experience with managing, and optimizing distributed database systems such as Cassandra, TiDB
- Previous work experience as a Java application developer is a plus - Experience provisioning virtual machines and other cloud services (e.g., Azure or Google Cloud) - Experience configuring and administering services at scale such as Cassandra, Redis, RabbitMQ, MySQL - Experience with messaging tools like Kafka - Experience working in a globally distributed engineering team
