Job Url: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/7088406?ref=himalayas.app&source=himalayas.app

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:

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 movement
About the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive. 

The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.

As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expressi