Job Url: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/6963387?gh_src=94cfded01us

Job Description: You are responsible for:

Design, implementation and maintenance of public facing infrastructure and services
Use of configuration management and deployment tools
Architectural design and operation at scale
Monitoring of systems and services, optimization of performance and resource utilization
Proactively identify sources of instability in distributed systems and analyze how complex systems fail from a reliability and resilience perspective.
Common operating system level tasks such as logging and backup / restore
Cookbook / runbook implementation for common maintenance actions 
Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation and escalations for resolving production issues
Lead incident response and post-incident reviews, contributing to failure analysis and implementing preventive measures
Automation and streamlining of tasks as well as identifying process gaps
Collaborating with a global and asynchronously communicating team (don’t worry if you have never worked remotely, we’ll help you get used to it)
Mentoring peers in your areas of technical and operational strength
Expected to travel domestically or potentially internationally 2-3 times in a year for team gatherings and conferences
Skills and Experience:

Candidates should be based within UTC -8 to UTC -3 time zones to ensure good collaboration overlap with the team.
5+ years of experience in an SRE/Operations/DevOps role
Experience with operating highly available infrastructure
Experience with running applications and services at scale
Experience implementing containerization solutions (Docker, Kubernetes)
Proficient with shell and a programming language used in an SRE/Operations engineering context (Python, Go, Ruby, etc.)
Comfortable with Open Source configuration management and orchestration tools (Puppet, Ansible, TerraForm etc.)
Communicative technical English
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:

Experience with package management for operating systems (Debian, etc)
We are avid supporters (and users) of open source software; history of contributing to Open Source projects is valued
Familiarity with RFC 2549
Prior participation in the Wikimedia movem