Site Reliability Engineer

Rackspace Technology provides managed IT services across cloud, applications, data, security, and infrastructure. The Site Reliability Engineer will help customers design, build, migrate, and productionize Kubernetes-based cloud solutions, while automating operations, standardizing architectures, and mentoring engineers on container and Kubernetes best practices.

Responsibilities:

• Rackspace Professional Services is helping customers solve business challenges using Kubernetes
• 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
• You'll be working on AWS, Azure, GCP, and OpenStack to deliver solutions to our customers, mentoring other talented engineers in k8s best practices, and solving problems in the realm of App Transformation, BigData, and IoT
• Work with us to solve customer business challenges by productionizing and standardizing home-grown k8s stacks so they autoheal and scale on demand
• Help our 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
• High school diploma or equivalent required
• 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