Job Title : Lead Site Reliability Engineer
Location : Cork, County Cork
Company : opentext
Salary :
Open Date : 2023-01-16
Close Date : 2023-05-16

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

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) , you will join a global team, where you’ll have the opportunity to learn, grow, and mentor other team members. You will be actively engaged with Product Management, Product Engineering, and others across the CloudOps Delivery team. You will bring your ideas and knowledge to continue to improve and make our cloud deployments more resilient.

Your function will be implementing SRE best practices and being the point person for management. you will be able to participate in the conception, design, research, development, build, maintenance, and monitoring.

To achieve that, we are using great tools like; Git, Chef, Ansible and Terraform among others. We would like you to bring your experience and improve our usage of any tool or even suggest a new one. Our Tech Stack consists of GCP, AWS, Azure, Cloud Foundry, Anthos, Bosh and Kubernetes. We are currently adopting Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines to streamline our deployments You would be coming in to improve or learn how to do them.

There’s plenty of opportunities to learn and projects to participate depending on your main strengths and aptitude.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop CI/CD pipeline through industry standard CI/CD technologies
• Ability to develop shared library to using GitLab to enable build and deploy
• Able to build and deploy applications to cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Able to work with a cross functional teams to deliver Infra-as-a-code solutions to build infrastructure configuration management solutions
• Troubleshoot build and deployment related issues on cloud platforms
• Collaborate with application teams, infrastructure teams, tools teams, and operations teams to develop integrated solution to enable CI/CD pipelines (both on premise and public cloud)
• Act as Scrum Leader while developing new CI/CD process for cloud operations deployments

Required Skills

• 7+ years overall deployment/build/support/architecture experience with minimum of 2+ years in DevOps or cloud technologies
• General knowledge of UNIX/Linux & Windows
• Experience working with Azure in a solution and deployment role
• Experience with scripting (Shell, Python etc.,)
• Should have experience on build and deployment process for different technology-based applications like Java, .Net, PHP, Node JS, Angular, Python etc.
• Experience with at least one of CI/CD build and deployment system (Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub or AzureDevOps GitHub, Maven)
• Experience in a scrum team as an SRE or senior DevOps role from start to finish (build/deploy/support)
• Strong understanding of cloud native and container based distributed systems like Kubernetes
• Ability to collaborate with Engineering, Architecture, Infrastructure, and Operations teams to develop design and deliver solutions to drive infrastructure provisioning on any cloud platform using Terraform, Helm, and Ansible
• Ability to work with AppDev/Engineering to develop release mechanisms that improve the product release cycle (enable hooks for APM, develop DR and Automated redeployment strategies)
• Experience with Prometheus, Dynatrace or AppDynamics, or AppInsight and LogInsights

Desired Skills

• Exposure to open source technologies
• Experience in Docker, Docker compose, Docker file
• Experience on container orchestration technologies on cloud platforms (AKS/EKS/PKS/GKE Instances)
• Infra automation using Ansible/Terraform/Helm
• Ability to provision infrastructure using Terraform both in a pipeline and outside a pipeline
• Working experience of provisioning and managing container clusters
• Experience managing container-based applications
• Good understanding of docker networking, volumes and registry

OpenText's efforts to build an inclusive work environment go beyond simply complying with applicable laws. Our Employment Equity and Diversity Policy provides direction on maintaining a working environment that is inclusive of everyone, regardless of culture, national origin, race, color, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, family status, age, veteran status, disability, religion, or other basis protected by applicable laws. Should you require accommodations during the selection process, please contact [email protected].

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