Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Your role and responsibilities

About the job:

• Lead and contribute to multiple concurrent projects, focusing on key business initiatives, abstractions, migrations, and performance optimization.

• Design, develop, and implement effective solutions which benefit the entire platform and align with business objectives.

• Mentor and enable other software engineers through the creation of detailed documentation and runbooks, by promoting synchronous coding activities, and delivering knowledge transfer sessions across the team.

• Advocate for ongoing improvements across the infrastructure platform, seeking opportunities for automation and operational efficiency at scale

• Leverage technical program management expertise, defining technical objectives, leading capacity planning activities, coordinating engineering tasks, and managing expectations to reliably deliver program success.

• Regularly adapt to new platforms, technologies, and areas of focus as objectives are realized and new initiatives begin.

Here's what you can expect to accomplish on the Infrastructure Transformation team at HashiCorp:

Within 30 days, you will:

• Learn about HashiCorp's products, teams, peers, and processes

• Integrate yourself into ongoing initiatives and deliver your first changes using HashiCorp tooling like Packer, Terraform, Nomad, and Consul

• Join ongoing ceremonies and have one-on-ones with each member of our team

• Experience the HashiCorp culture and get familiar with the Tao of HashiCorp

Within 60 days, you will:

• Become a trusted member of the team and a subject matter expert on the systems we build and support

• Take an active role in the designing and implementation of internal systems to support product, engineering, and security teams

• Create tools for automating deployment, monitoring, and operations of the platform

• Recommend improvements to the systems the team builds and supports

Within 90 days, you will:

• Lead projects to build, deploy, and support new platform components

• Develop and deliver abstractions, migrations, tooling, and process to support our systems

• Drive the research and testing of systems to help meet the needs of our Engineering teams, including writing RFCs to show what thoughts and considerations went into the selection of the system

• Identify performance impacting deployments, develop remediations, and deliver resilient solutions

• Provide occasional after-hours support for in-flight team initiatives in the event of an outage

This job can be performed from anywhere in the US

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Professional backend software development experience in cloud environments.

• Experience operating AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud infrastructure.

• Comfortable with microservices architectures, and have experience with microservices in active development and operation, at a global scale,

• Proficient in infrastructure management and operations lifecycle concepts

• Experience building and supporting the production infrastructure for a large-scale SaaS application

• Strong understanding of platform engineering

• Exhibit exceptional problem-solving abilities with a proactive and analytical approach to identifying and resolving infrastructure issues.

• Enthusiastic about adopting the HashiCorp way of building systems, using an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) approach, and taking advantage of immutable infrastructure

• Experience using source management tools like Git

• Willing and eager to learn new technologies and methodologies

• Expert collaborator and are able to effectively communicate across diverse teams and partners

Have a customer-centric attitude and willingness to enthusiastically support the engineering teams to help HashiCorp continue to deliver great products and services

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Excellent project management fundamentals and a demonstrable proficiency in navigating through project phases and activities effectively.

• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS and ECS in a professional setting.

• A passion for automation, optimization, reliability, and operational maturity.

• Proficient in container orchestration (e.g., Nomad, Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible), and other HashiCorp products (e.g., Packer, Consul, Vault)

Experienced in working across a distributed team, able to consistently deliver quality results when given a high level of independence and autonomy.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
• Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.