Site Reliability Engineer, 100% remote, from 4500€ monthly

PDI Technologies Slovakia, s.r.o.

Place of work
Remote work
Contract type
full-time, trade licence
Wage (gross)
4 500 EUR/monthfrom 4500 eur/monthly on contract and more, based on experience and level of expertise

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

Do you love designing scalable fault-tolerant systems that can run efficiently with high performance? Do you insist on the highest standards for the systems your team implements and supports for your customer base? Are you an advocate of fast release cycle times automating deployments, validation and systems monitoring? If this is you, then join an energetic production operations team implementing PDI’s next-generation global cloud platform & services.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will partner with a team of TechOps and DevOps engineers for the design, implementation, deployment & operation of our PDI CI/CD production pipeline & PDI Hybrid Cloud Platform. The platform will be used internally by the engineering teams, providing them an internal pipeline to work with POCs, alpha, betas and release candidate environments, as well as supporting the pipeline into our production stage and release environments managed by you and your TechOps team and running hybrid clouds composed of federated PDI private cloud and public cloud clusters.

With the variety of environments, platforms, technologies & languages, you must be comfortable working in both Windows & Linux environments, including PowerShell & bash scripting, database administration as well as bare metal virtualization technologies and public cloud environments (Azure, GCP, AWS).

Primary Responsibilities
· Promote and evangelize Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) design thinking every day
· Work with configuration management tools such as Ansible or Chef, and with automation tools such as Jenkins
· Build comprehensive understanding, operate & monitor our hybrid cloud system components including our API gateway, high perf cache, high perf messaging, data services, etc.
· Collaboratively design & implement the infrastructure for portability and containerization, supporting deployments to the PDI data centre private cloud on Hyper-V clusters as well as public clouds (AWS preferred)
· Collaborate with Platform & DevOps Agile teams, supporting deliverables
· Participate in any design & implementation of continuous deployment pipeline to production and the automated gate criteria approving releases into stage & production environments
· Partner with the PDI DevOps team, collaboratively building our high maturity CI/CD pipeline & PDI Hybrid Cloud platform
· Deploy production software and monitor & manage its uptime
· Continuously increase knowledge of our systems and solution stacks through active study, research & experimentation, and contribute to team knowledge-base through discussion and documentation

Employee perks, benefits

· Attractive pay
· Referral program
· Being a part of a growing team with stimulating assignments supporting global clients and solutions
· Ability to continuously learn new skills
· Home-office
· Flexible working hours

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

Secondary with school-leaving examination
Follow-up/Higher Professional Education
University education (Bachelor's degree)
University education (Master's degree)
Postgraduate (Doctorate)

Educational Specialization

IT

Language skills

English - Upper intermediate (B2)

Personality requirements and skills

· 5-9 years in SysOps or related software engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience
· Experience with portable provisioning technologies and infrastructure as code: Terraform, Packer, Ansible or SaltStack and Hyper-V Cmdlets
· Experience with configuration management tools such as Chef or Puppet
· Comfortable with the setup, configuration, care and support of portable cloud technologies such as API gateways, Cassandra, Spark, Kafka, Redis, Microsoft SQL Server
· Familiar with containerization (Docker) and cloud orchestration (AWS preferred)
· Highly motivated self-starter with a desire to help others and take action
· Requires strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into non-technical terms
· Ability to independently work as a contributing member in a high-paced and focused team
· Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks with competing deadlines
· Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to work under pressure
· Ability to socialize ideas and influence decisions without direct authority
· Collaborative in nature with a strong desire to dig in and learn independently and as well as through asking questions
· Considers ‘best-practice’ standards, as well as departmental policies and procedures
· Strong overall understanding of SDLC
· Experience in Windows and Linux systems, CLI and scripting
· Working knowledge of object-oriented programming
· Working experience with one or more flavors of SQL RDBMS administration and scripting DDL and DML
· Experience with direct customer contact (tech support, customer service, etc.)

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Brief description of the company

For nearly 40 years, PDI has helped convenience retailers and petroleum wholesalers adapt to changes in the industry by leveraging the latest technologies. Simplifying the complexity in your world is our main focus. That's why we're delivering an integrated portfolio of global, cloud-based solutions and services to meet our customers needs today and well into the future. From the back office to fuel logistics, and the latest wave of consumer demands and digital commerce, PDI solutions and services are designed to give you a competitive edge. Our deep domain knowledge is backed by our industry-specific software offerings and a people-first approach. Serving the entire supply chain means that we’ve had to solve a wide range of industry challenges and deliver measurable value. To address the increasingly dynamic convenience retail and petroleum wholesale industry, PDI leads the way with converged digital, cloud-optimized, secure, and scalable solutions including ERP, Loyalty, Fuel Pricing, Point-of-Sale and Logistics to create a broader industry ecosystem. The result is unparalleled insights, simplified operations, and higher profitability for your employees and business. We’re dedicated to helping our more than 1,500 customers in over 50 countries, providing solutions and services to over 200,000 sites.

Number of employees

500-999 employees
ID: 4011839  Dátum zverejnenia: 15.1.2021  Spodná hranica mzdy (brutto): 4 500 EUR/month