Responsibilities
Kforce has a client that is seeking a Fully Remote Site Reliability Engineer to join their team. This engineer will be working with a team of passionate engineers responsible for automation, scaling, tuning, and troubleshooting of Cassandra and Elasticsearch databases. They will also collaborate and work with a diverse group of engineers to design and deliver solutions. Responsibilities:
- Manage large critical Cassandra and Elasticsearch clusters
- Write scripts to automate all build and maintenance tasks using puppet and python/go/shell
- Monitor cluster availability, read/ write latencies, and other key performance metrics to proactively identify SLO misses and help mitigate issues
- Tune Cassandra and ES databases for optimizing throughput and read/write latencies
- On-call rotation support with rest of team for quick incident response
- Implement DR strategies, including backups and recovery techniques with minimal downtime
- Write and update runbooks and SOP's
- Proactively monitor and scale Elasticsearch/Cassandra clusters to handle growth in traffic
- Evaluate new technologies, tools, and software versions
Requirements
- Experience managing large Elasticsearch clusters in highly available 24x7 production environments
- Experience creating efficient design of Elasticsearch index, familiar with re-indexing and data mappings
- Experience automating the maintenance of Cassandra and ES using Python and puppet or similar tools
- Experience managing cloud infrastructure on GCP
- Experience in developing automation jobs using any one scripting languages (Python/go/shell) is a high plus
- Heavy Elastic Search and Cassandra experience
- Minimum of 1 1/2 years of experience
- Ability to quickly learn new concepts and technologies and adapt to changing needs
- Heavy Automation experience (Python, etc.)
- Ansible, Puppet, etc.
- Kubernetes is a plus
The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.
We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.
Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.
This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.
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