Site Reliability Engineer - Big Data

Job Description

Verisign is seeking a highly skilled Mid-level Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join their team and play a critical role in ensuring the stability, performance, and security of their data platforms. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of big data systems and automation, be proficient in Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD, and possess a strong desire to learn.This role involves:

• Architecting, deploying, and managing large-scale data platforms (Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, Druid) running on top of Kubernetes
• Automating cluster provisioning (CICD), scaling and monitoring using Ansible, Python and Jenkins
• Participating in technical designs for software solutions that combine Open-Source, Commercial and custom developed components
• Ensuring platform SLOs by collecting, visualizing, and alerting on relevant telemetry
• Upgrading large-scale data platforms improving system capabilities and security while ensuring minimal customer impact
• Troubleshooting complex issues in large and distributed environments
• Staying up to date with the industry data platform best practices and standards, focusing on hybrid cloud environments
• Supporting data platform customers
• Participating in the on-call rotation monitoring production systems and responding to incidents

Requirements include:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 5+ years of experience managing big data platforms (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Druid)
• Excellent understanding of Linux configuration and administration
• Strong automation experience
• Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code such as Ansible
• Experience with Docker or Kubernetes in a production environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Verisign offers:

• A dynamic and flexible work environment
• Competitive benefits
• The ability to grow your career