Sr. SRE Engineer

W2 Contract to Possible Hire

Hybrid, Santa Clara, CA

$75-90/hr + PTO, Paid Holidays, Benefits

We are looking for a seasoned SRE to join our multifaceted and fast-paced Infrastructure, Planning and Processes organization where you will be working as a Senior SRE Engineer. The position will be part of a fast-paced crew that develops and maintains our internal cloud provisioning product for GPUs and Tegra systems.

The team works with various other business units such as Graphics Processors, Mobile Processors, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Driverless Cars to cater to their infrastructure & system’s needs.

What you’ll be doing:

• Working on systems deployed in our internal cloud making them available and reliable for our end users.
• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues related to CPU, memory, disk, and network utilization.
• Providing high quality of user support.
• Monitoring KPIs and making sure that team’s SLAs are met.
• Managing and maintaining production Kubernetes clusters.
• Drive automation of monitoring to gain more insight into applications and system health.
• Craft and develop tools needed for automating workflows.
• Develop, Improve and Maintain our infrastructure codebase.
• Craft and implement critical metrics using various analytics methods and dashboards.
• Take part in prototyping, crafting, and developing cloud infrastructure
• Reuse AI techniques to extract useful signals about machines and jobs from the data generated.

What we need to see:

• Experience of maintaining cloud infrastructure and highly available production environment.
• Experience managing systems installed data centers. Proficient with BMC (Redfish), KVM, and IPMI tools.
• Working knowledge of Openstack.
• Background in Databases like SQL (MySQL) and timeseries DBs like Prometheus.
• Strong knowledge of networking principles and protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, and VLANs.
• Experience with data analytics/visualization tools like Kibana, Grafana, Splunk etc.
• Strong Ansible skills. Experience with Ansible AWX.
• Strong background with Jenkins and/or other CI/CD systems.
• Proficient with Kubernetes, dockers & virtualization.
• Proficient using source code management and binary repository systems like GitLab, GitHub, Artifactory, Perforce etc.
• Knowledge of monitoring systems such as Zabbix, Prometheus, PagerDuty and/or similar systems.
• Advanced knowledge of standard methodologies related to security.
• 5+ years of proven experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent experience.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Previous experience with SRE teams managing on-prem infrastructure.
• Experience managing hardware like GPUs and Tegras.
• Thrives in a multi-tasking environment with constantly evolving priorities.
• Prior experience with large scale operations team.
• Experience with Windows server infrastructure.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills and communication with all levels of management.
• Experience with using and improving data centers.
• Ability to analyze sophisticated problems into simple sub problems and then reuse available solutions to implement most of those.
• Ability to design simple systems that can work efficiently without needing much support.

TCWGlobal is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on age, ethnicity, gender, nationality, religious belief, or sexual orientation.