Sr. Site Reliability Administrator

OPENTEXT - THE INFORMATION COMPANY

As the Information Company, our mission at OpenText is to create software solutions and deliver services that redefine the future of digital. Be part of a winning team that leads the way in Enterprise Information Management. 

The Opportunity
The role Cloud Application Engineer/Site Reliability Engineer is to build solutions to enhance the availability, performance, and stability of OpenText services as well as automate away repetitive work as part of a cloud dev ops organization.  
This role would be a great fit for someone with creative and innovative problem-solving skills. You will develop and implement solutions that operate at scale. Our teams are empowered and expected to improve our products to deliver a reliable experience to customers truly. 

You Are Great At
Collaborates with Agile squads/developers, sustain and business partners and provides significant contributions to develop specifications to resolve problems, and to address enhancement needs focusing in areas of logging, monitoring, and metrics for operational readiness
•    Uses technical knowledge, creativity, and company practices to drive down occurrences of incidents through the development of proactive monitoring and alerting.
•    Provide attention to incidents according to Service Level Agreements.
•    Provide continuous feedback to development teams on system stability, defect analysis, and system enhancements
•    Develop runbooks and patterns to sustain applications in a production environment
•    Participate in technical discussions and drive a transition to sustain activities with the development teams
•    Work with IT business and development partners to gather input to develop new capabilities in displaying/monitoring/alerting on key performance indicators (KPIs) by tracking business transactions (BT) in real-time
•    Partner with application owners to develop creative and effective solutions to mitigate risk and successfully remediate any audit issues, providing quality and timely responses
•    Take ownership and accountability for the incident resolution process, participating in RCA and SWAT investigations.
•    Plan for validation and verification of changes deployed by infrastructure teams, and development teams.
•    Participate in day-to-day real-time advanced-level technical support and troubleshooting on issues reported by the user/customer base.
•    Provides guidance in resolving performance-related issues and designing solutions for any technical issues faced by the application
•    Establish and maintain a good relationship with team members, Product Development, Product Management, Customer Service, Client management, and other cross-functional teams.
•    Participate in training and information-sharing activities.
•    Act as backup for other team members when necessary.
•    Requires rotating shift work as needed.
•    On-call rotation is required, as 7x24x365 support is required.

What It Takes
•    The ability to understand and maintain Scripting Software
•    Deep understanding of Linux systems
•    Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure; Google, AWS, or Azure a plus 
•    Experience with PaaS technologies such as Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, and Bosh.
•    Good understanding and operational experience with container technologies like Docker, rkt, Mesos.  
•    Good understanding and working experience with microservices and RESTful architecture.
•    Experience with Continuous delivery tools like Ansible, Rundeck, or Argo CD to set up automated pipelines as needed. 
•    Strong working knowledge of aPaaS or Application operations best practices.
•    Operational understanding or experience with message brokers such as Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ.
•    Operational understanding or experience with search technologies such as Solr search or Elasticsearch.
•    Experience in supporting middleware technologies such as Apache, Tomcat, and Spring.
•    Experience with at least one scripting language such as shell, Perl, python, javascript, etc…
•    Experience with installing and configuring Apache and Tomcat.
•    Experience in supporting Java applications built using frameworks such as Spring, struts, spark, etc.
•    Experience and knowledge in RDBMS and No-Sql databases such as Oracle, Postgres, MariaDB, and Cassandra. 
•    Deep expertise in Monitoring distributed systems application architectures and the ability to correlate environment conditions and metrics to application events.
•    Experience with APM tools such as Newrelic, Dynatrace, or AppDyanmics.
•    Experience with monitoring tools such as Zabbix or check_mk.
•    Knowledge and familiarity with centralized logging systems such as Graylog or Kibana.
•    Strong understanding of ITIL principles, certification is a plus.
•    Is passionate about “getting under the hood” of systems and technologies to understand their inner workings, and fix what needs fixing.  This requires diagnosing & troubleshooting user facing service incidents & outages
•    Knowledge and familiarity with API gateway such as APIGEE and Oauth 2.0 standard.
•    Diagnosing, and resolving problems in high-throughput web applications & network services
•    Proven problem-solving and analytical ability.
•    Excellent organizational/time management skills.
•    Ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently.
•    Ability to lead, drive and implement highly scalable and complex solutions
•    A strong understanding of Security best practices.
•    A proven record of being able to work independently and collaboratively.

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