66degrees is a leading consulting and professional services company specializing in developing AI-focused, data-led solutions leveraging the latest advancements in cloud technology. With our unmatched engineering capabilities and vast industry experience, we help the world's leading brands transform their business challenges into opportunities and shape the future of work.
Overview of Role66degrees’ Managed Cloud Optimization (MCO) team works with some of the largest cloud users in the world to help them transform their businesses with technology. On a daily basis, our SREs work with varied and exciting customers on topics ranging from solving critical outages to designing and deploying new cloud workloads to building self-healing automation. Our SREs work with cutting-edge Google Cloud technologies like Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Anthos, BigQuery and data pipelines, as well as leading 3rd party tools like Prometheus, Datadog, and many others. This is 12 months of remote contract role with high possibility of conversion into full time role. The ideal candidate should be flexible in shift timings.
***Please Note: Need candidate to join within 30 days***
Responsibilities
A 66degrees’ Site Reliability Engineer’s responsibilities and duties are as follows:
- Ensure near-zero downtime with monitoring and alerting, self-healing automation, and continuous improvement
- Create highly automated, available and scalable systems by applying software and infrastructure principles
- Employ and advise clients on DevOps and SRE principles and practices, covering deployment pipelines, HA, service reliability, technical debt, and operational toil for live services running at scale
- Provide a proactive approach to our clients’ workloads, anticipating failures, automating tasks, ensuring availability, and providing a great customer experience
- Work closely with clients, your team, and Google engineers to investigate and resolve infrastructure issues
- Contribute to ad-hoc initiatives such as writing documentation, open-sourcing, and improving operation, making a huge impact at a rapid-growth Google Premier Partner
Requirements
- Minimum 3+ years of cloud and infrastructure experience, including demonstrated expertise with Linux, Windows, k8s, databases, and networking services
- 2+ years of Google Cloud experience and related certifications strongly preferred but not required
- Proficiency with Python required. Other programming language experience is a plus
- Strong provisioning and configuration skills using Terraform
- Experience with 24x7x365 monitoring, incident response, and on-call support.
- Experience in troubleshooting that spans systems, network, and code
- Experience determining & negotiating Error budgets, SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs with product owners
- Demonstrate the ability to work independently and as a member of a greater team, including cross-team activities
- Experience working in Agile Scrum, Kanban methodologies in SDLC
- Proven experience balancing service reliability, metrics, sustainability, technical debt, and operational toil for live services running at scale
- Strong communication skills, as this is a heavily customer-facing role
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or equivalent required
66degrees is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, national origin, age, weight, height, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status or other legally protected class.
