Site Reliability Engineer

Job#: 3046764

Job Description:
Azure Reliability Engineer

Location: REDMOND, Washington (Remote) working PT hours

Role Overview

This is a site reliability engineering role within the Service Health Platforms team. The position is responsible for operating enterprise network observability platforms, which include commercially available platforms and internally developed systems that ingest network telemetry. The data from these systems provides the foundation for tools used by network engineers to operate efficiently.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and operate Windows and Linux VMs hosted in Azure to ensure compliance with security and configuration standards.
• Maintain network observability platforms, including syslog-ng and trapd, by performing upgrades, patching, capacity planning, and authoring rules using regular expressions.
• Provide support for IBM SevOne Network Performance Manager and Broadcom AppNeta observability platforms.
• Manage assigned projects and program components to deliver services in accordance with established objectives.
• Identify and automate tasks with Bash, PowerShell, or Python.
• Troubleshoot network observability configurations, software applications, and operating systems.
• Deploy, configure, and manage cloud services on platforms like Azure to ensure scalability and reliability.
• Implement DevOps practices and tools, including CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.
• Perform BCDR failover testing where appropriate.
• Participate in an on-call rotation.

Required Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or a related field; or equivalent experience.

Experience: 5-7 years of enterprise experience in an IT systems, network, or site reliability engineering role.

Technical Skills:

• Strong understanding of network observability, including SNMP, SNMP Traps, NetFlow, and gNMI.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or similar.
• Strong understanding of enterprise networking protocols.
• Experience with system capacity planning, as well as functional configuration and audit.
• Experience with syslog-ng (3 years).
• Experience with Linux sysadmin (5 years).
• Experience with Network Engineering (3 years).

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in automating tasks using Bash, PowerShell, or Python.
• Proficient with regular expressions.
• Experience with IBM SevOne and/or Broadcom AppNeta or similar observability platforms.
• Experience with various source control platforms.
• Working knowledge of Ansible and playbooks.
• Intermediate knowledge of data retrieval languages such as KQL and T-SQL.
• Experience with commercially available AI platforms.

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