Site Reliability Engineer III

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The Site Reliability Engineer will be responsible for the availability and reliability of critical platform services and applications. They will work closely with the Software Development Team in order to devise effective release schedules as well as designing and implementing deployment processes and tools that will best support the continuous improvement of Breeze production environments. The Site Reliability Engineer will also be responsible for service delivery, reliability, scalability, monitoring, and helping define all this as immutable infrastructure-as-code.

Here's what you'll do

• Manage core production systems, including frequent changes and updates
• Rapidly identify and resolve problems in production systems
• Handle complex service faults
• Develop or implement tools to improve our monitoring of infrastructure
• Improve technologies and processes while maintaining a rapid agile delivery cycle
• Deploy and maintain highly available, scalable, critical applications on cloud-native microservices architecture
• Implement automation, effective monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code
• Deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments
• Support and work alongside cross-functional engineering teams on the latest technologies
• Iterate on best practices to increase the quality & velocity of deployments
• Sustain and improve the process of knowledge sharing throughout the engineering team
• Have on-call responsibilities in rotation with the engineering team
• Achieve performance measures and adhere to established standards in conjunction with Breeze Aviation Group Values of Safety, Kindness, Integrity, Ingenuity and Excellence

Here's what you need to be successful

Minimum Qualifications

• 4-year degree in Computer Science or equivalent additional practical experience
• 4+ years experience maintaining and deploying highly available, fault-tolerant systems at scale
• A drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g. scripting via Bash, Python, Ruby, etc.)
• Practical experience with containerization and clustering
• Experience with AWS (e.g. IAM, EC2, VPC, ELB, ALB, Autoscaling, Lambda, EKS)
• Version control system experience (e.g. Git)
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with configuration management
• Familiarity with PaaS
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code
• Experience with troubleshooting and monitoring distributed systems in Dev and Prod environments
• Understanding of system and networking concepts and troubleshooting techniques
• Comfortable with Linux & Network administration including load balancing, routing, firewalls, VPN
• Experience in infrastructure security
• High performance orientation, ability to work well under pressure, prioritize projects, meet deadlines, and maintain flexibility
• Strong attention to detail, organization, and time management skills
• Self-starter must have a positive attitude and strong desire for success
• Complete projects on time with minimal supervision, ability to work varied hours when necessary to meet deadlines

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years experience maintaining and deploying highly available, fault-tolerant systems at scale
• Familiarity with AI tools and AI orchestrations and enablement at scale
• Graduate degree in CS or other relevant field of study
• Experience using EKS, Terraform and Ansible

Skills/Talents

Technical -

• Able to create innovative solutions that push Breeze's technical abilities ahead of the curve
• Expertise in Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS.
• Collaborates with stable counterpart teams to contribute to future architecture and influence roadmap

Execution -

• Strives for automation either by coding it or by leading and influencing developers to build systems that are easy to run in production
• Measure the risk of introduced features to plan ahead and improve the infrastructure.
• Proposes and drives architectural changes that affect the whole company to solve scaling and performance problems
• Directly participates in contributing to and influencing the future direction of stable counterpart groups towards a more resilient and reliable products

Collaboration and Communication -

• Works with teams across the whole company influencing design to create features that will work well with third party and internal platforms
• Runs RCAs and planning meetings to get meaningful work scheduled into the roadmap
• Lead Breeze in identifying trends, drawing conclusion from problems we face, and establishing the actions needed to resolve these issues

Physical Demands & Working Conditions

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Frequent use of hands and fingers for typing, handling documents, and operating standard office equipment
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds
• Occasional standing, walking, bending, and reaching within an office environment
• Clear verbal and written communication, requiring adequate speech, hearing, and vision

Perks of the Job

• Health, Vision and Dental - Full Time
• Health Savings Account with Breeze Employee Match
• 401K with Breeze Employee Match
• Generous PTO

Breeze Airways provides equal employment opportunities to all Team Members and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Breeze Airways provides equal employment opportunities to all Team Members and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Breeze Airways will never request your Social Security Number, Driver's License or Date of Birth on our job postings. Job Postings requesting any or all of this information should be regarded as a scam.