Site Reliability Engineer

Job description

3218690
Additional Cities

Atlanta
Career Level

Experienced
Relocation Assistance

No
Business

GE Digital
Business Segment

Digital Technology
Function

Digital Technology
Country/Territory

United States
Additional States/Provinces

Georgia
Postal Code

30305-3326
Role Summary/Purpose

The Site Reliability Engineering team at GE Digital is responsible for Software Development and reliability and performance of Predixworldwide. We obsess over availability by building tools and engineeringnew systems to automate our platform. We are software engineers with full visibility and influenceacross the entire stack.
Essential Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

·  Design and Develop new greenfield Software Solutions in vast diversity of emerging technologies

·  Utilize the newest technologies to build and automate business and operability process

·  Develop automated solutions to predict and address potential problems before they result in a service interruption

·  Oversee and adapt monitoring and alerting systems

·  Collaborate with all GE business units worldwide, providing a bastion technical expertise

·  Identify potential process improvements across the entire engineering organization

·  Define and drive architectural enhancements into system to mitigate potential failure points

·  Provide impact assessment and mitigation plan for changes going into the production environment

·  Investigate root cause of severe and systemic outages, identify corrective actions

·  Establish performance baseline, capacity thresholds, correlate events, and define monitoring/alerting criteria

·  Provide technical coaching and direction to more junior teammates
Qualifications/Requirements

·  Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Management or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with a minimum 2 years of professional experience in coding, or a HS diploma with 6 yeas of professional experience in coding.

·  Minimum 1 year experience operating large scale distributed systems.

·  Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job
Desired Characteristics

Technical Expertise:

·  Excellent hands-on programming knowledge in Application Development

·  Demonstrated ability to script around repeatable tasks (Go, Ruby, Python, Bash)

·  Excellent knowledge of UNIX system internals, Windows is an advantage

·  Strong analytical and problem solving skills

·  Experience with all stages of an agile software development lifecycle (CI/CD)

·  Familiar with large scale cluster management systems (Mesos, Kubernetes)

·  Experience with developing cloud-native applications (High Availability)

·  Able to dive into any level of a modern internet service (schedulers, containers, Linux kernel, caching, object storage, distributed filesystems, RDBMS, NoSQL, etc.)

·  Comfortable with network troubleshooting (tcpdump, routing, proxies, firewalls, load balancers, etc.)

·  Able to troubleshoot and debug applications (C, Java, Go)

·  Proficient in configuration management systems (Chef, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Salt)

·  Experience with configuring, customizing, and extending monitoring tools (Sensu, Grafana,

·  Prometheus, Graphite, Splunk, etc.)

·  Experience deploying and managing infrastructure on public clouds (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

·  Comfortable using Git on the command line

Leadership:

·  Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas. • Preemptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome.

·  Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications.

·  Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making.

·  Understands and encourages change when needed.

·  Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team.

·  Able to navigate accountability in a matrixed organization.

·  Self-starter; communicates and demonstrates a shared sense of purpose. Learns from failure.

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Personal Attributes:

·  Critical thinker; able to quickly adapt to changing environments

·  A hacker or tinkerer at heart

·  Risk taker, not afraid to think outside the box or challenge the status quo

·  Emotional Intelligence, ability to influence up and out and the ability to work independently

·  Must be a team player with a strong desire to win

·  Passionate about continuously learning

·  Highly organized and efficient; able to balance competing priorities and execute accordingly

·  Strong oral and written communication skills. . Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications

GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening.
Primary Country

United States
Primary State/Province

Georgia
Primary City

Atlanta