Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Works on a Platform Engineering team and supports aligned product teams by planning its work, coordinating with others, and developing functionality to enable teams to be successful in quality and reliability. Most important technical skills are Kubernetes, AWS, OpenTelemetry, Terraform, and at least one programming language such as Java or Go.

Job title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Urbandale IA 
Duration: 1+ year of contract

Job Description:
Person will work a split schedule between onsite and remote.
The worker should be comfortable working in a paired programming environment and be an excellent communicator. High priority given to soft skills such as self-driven and takes initiative. Works on a Platform Engineering team and supports aligned product teams by planning its work, coordinating with others, and developing functionality to enable teams to be successful in quality and reliability.

Most important technical skills are Kubernetes, AWS, OpenTelemetry, Terraform, and at least one programming language such as Java or Go.

• (3 - 6 years) Experience in programming/software development (Java (70%), Go (10%), Scala (10%), Python (5%), Terraform (5%))
• (3 - 6 years) Site Reliability experience, observability and/or tracing experience
• (3 years) Experience hosting services in AWS cloud technologies
• (3 years) Experience deploying and/or managing EKS/Kubernetes clusters
• (3 years) Ability to manage many competing priorities/requests in a fast-paced environment
• (3 years) Excellence in verbal and written communication forms with tact and negotiation