Associate Director, SRE

Associate Director, SRE

01 Jan 2024
California, Centurycity, 90067 Centurycity USA

Associate Director, SRE

Vacancy expired!

Odesus is a premier IT consulting company specializing in project staff augmentation. For over a decade, Odesus has been the go-to company providing top quality IT consultants.
Our client ini W. Los Angeles is actively seeking an Associate Director to build out a new SRE team to focuse on the video stack. The technology stack is entirely hosted at AWS.

  • Spearhead load testing, capacity planning, proactive monitoring, and performance optimization efforts
  • Engage in service ownership jointly with assigned Engineering teams to ensure adherence to architectural and operational best practices
  • Achieve architecture and service-level familiarity with a suite of services
  • Identify areas of improvement and collaborate across teams on architecture changes
  • Define and advocate operational process and enforce structure, including documentation, training and runbooks, escalations, RCAs and post-mortems to ensure systems are well understood and work smoothly, and recover gracefully in case of an unexpected failure
  • Develop custom and enterprise tools and services to advance internal platforms
  • Set an example to challenge other teams to improve operational visibility, advocacy, and communication
  • Manage deployment - optimize, monitor, and enhance content and delivery pipelines to enable development teams to release quickly and often
  • Own custom and enterprise tools and services supporting internal platforms and initiatives
  • Lead day-to-day activities as well as the roadmap of our SRE team
  • Build and mentor our SRE team into a cohesive, high-performing, strategic unit - through hands-on execution Set and measure critical engineering KPIs to achieve performance targets
  • Enforce a mindset of automating as much as possible to ensure scalability and repeatability of operational processes
Qualifications
  • 7+ years of relevant industry experience working on public-facing, high-volume, high-availability applications
  • Experience growing an SRE or DevOps team in a lead role for 2+ years
  • Experienced with monitoring/data aggregation tools and platforms such as Splunk, Grafana, New Relic
  • Strong CS fundamentals and a solid working knowledge of modern, agile software development principles, and microservice architectures
  • Adapt at working in an open-source setting, utilizing AWS services
  • Automation/coding background covering Python, NodeJS, Go, Jenkins, Codeship Rigor in end-to-end test coverage and CI/CD best practices
Due to Covid19, this role can be remote. However, candidates are expected to be able to work onsite at a future date. Therefore, local candidates or those willing to relocate with short notice is highly preferred. Candidates who are also at a short flight distance to Los Angeles will also be considered
For more information and immediate consideration, please send your resume as a Word document today!

Job Details

  • ID
    JC7635690
  • State
  • City
  • Job type
    Permanent
  • Salary
    Depends on Experience
  • Hiring Company
    Odesus
  • Date
    2020-12-03
  • Deadline
    2021-02-01
  • Category

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