Site Reliability Engineer

Rackspace Technology is a leading provider of IT as a service in today’s multi-cloud world. They are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to help guide clients in using Kubernetes and related technologies to solve business challenges, design solutions, and mentor other engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Help guide clients to the right architecture to meet their needs, design and build solutions, and steer developers towards best practices and patterns to containerize their applications
• Work on AWS, Azure, GCP, and OpenStack to deliver solutions to customers, mentoring other talented engineers in k8s best practices, and solving problems in the realm of App Transformation, BigData, and IoT
• Solve customer business challenges by productionizing and standardizing home-grown k8s stacks so they autoheal and scale on demand
• Help customers rearchitect, refactor, and transform their applications to migrate into the cloud
• Mentor the team as we grow and expand our container and Kubernetes offerings
• Help other teams productize standard reference architectures so they are repeatable and stable

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years experience developing software, with at least 2 years of experience using Docker, Kubernetes, and public cloud
• Working knowledge of GoLang, Python, Java, Ruby, C# or Scala programming language(s)
• Working knowledge of a few RDBMS, NoSQL, and BigData solutions
• Understanding of data structures, code complexity analysis, concepts like Gof4 Design Patterns and CQRS
• 5 - 7 years of relevant technical experience required, including a minimum of 2 years of engineering experience in migration, implementation, and production management
• Advanced knowledge and experience across multiple technologies in a single domain (Cloud, Security, DevOps, etc)
• Occasional domestic travel, up to 50%
• Associate's degree in technical field preferred
• OS certification and Rackspace Cloud Savvy/Smart certification strongly preferred
• At least one top tier technical certifications in a highly desired technology domain preferred