In everchanging SaaS landscape there are a few persistent items that contribute to developing quality solutions with speed. Namely, ensuing operational activities are treated as software development enhancements, manual tasks are remediated though automation, risk reduction though compartmentalization of services/code and consumption of readily available provider services. Product/development teams require an accountable partner to advance on these topics, The SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) team will be this partner.
The SRE team will support the Siemens Xcelerator platform and will be responsible for identifying, managing, improving, and reporting on availability, resiliency, reliability, and stability efficiencies. This includes providing technical guidance and leadership to drive solutions, create & enhance processes that deliver excellence. A strong relationship with the various product teams of the Xcelerator platform is necessary to support core objectives. This roles success will be defined by product teams meeting their SLO's with healthy product adoption and operational excellence.
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This position will be responsible for leading the SRE team both technologically and culturally though an enterprise ecosystem to ensure developers and products exceed product SLO's (Service level Objectives) and clearly, without dispute, benefit from every interaction with the SRE team.
Responsibilities
- Direct managerial responsibility for all SRE team members in a single division
- Cross division role model to advance the SRE practice in Siemens
- Complete technological control over methods of automation, codifying optional activities, microservice architecture, platform engineering to ensure changes, updates or technical advancements are in place for a product
- Ensure the team is able to provide & lead the design, deployment, automation, and scripting solutions to drive new capabilities, visibility, and efficiency
- Simplify highly complex ideas, architectures and concepts to encourage achievable adoption
- Collaborate with other technical platforms and partners to engineer automated and integrated solutions between tools, services, teams that increase availability, reliability, and performance
- Own and ensure the internal and external SLA's meet and exceed expectations
- Be part of maintaining a 24x7, global, highly available SaaS environment
- Participate in an on-call rotation that supports our production infrastructure
- Troubleshoot production availability incidents that often span across multiple teams and services
- Ensure the SRE team can lead production incident post-mortems, and contribute to solutions to prevent problem recurrence; with the goal of automated response to all non-exceptional service conditions
- Communicate to business and technical partners on incidents as they occur when they impact system performance or availability at a critical level
Required Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience
- Bachelor's Degree with at least 6+ years of SRE leadership experience
- 6+ years experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or equivalent role
- Lead a large organization though a SRE transformation where existing applications were adapted to contemporary targets
- 6+ years experience with automation via scripting & API development
- 8+ years experience with software development in the cloud
- 6+ years experience with monitoring tools
(Datadog, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Cloudability, or equivalent tools)
• 6+ years experience with containerization, specifically Kubernetes
- 8+ years experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) services
• 6+ years experience Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or equivalent tools
Qualified Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States. Qualified Applicants will not require employer sponsored work authorization now or in the future for employment in the United States.
Preferred Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience
- Siemens Teamcenter software
- Desired certifications include: Datadog, Kubernetes, Security, AWS certification
- Understanding of ITIL
- Deep understanding of Incident management strategies
- 4+ years experience with issue/incident tracking tool
(ServiceNOW, ServiceDesk, Jira or equivalent tools) - 8+ years experience with open source tools (Linux, Python, Git, Ansible)
- 8+ years experience Enterprise IT environment with distributed environments
- Networking concepts, including firewalls, VPN, routing, load balancers, security and DNS
• Senior level system administration experience, including troubleshooting, support, mentorship/training, and oversight
Why us?
Working at Siemens Software means flexibility - Choosing between working at home and the office at other times is the norm here. We offer great benefits and rewards, as you'd expect from a world leader in industrial software.
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The salary range for this position is $151,300 to $272,400 and this role is eligible to earn incentive compensation. The actual compensation offered is based on the successful candidate's work location as well as additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education/training. Siemens offers a variety of health and wellness benefits to employees. Details regarding our benefits can be found here: www.benefitsquickstart.com. In addition, this position is eligible for time off in accordance with Company policies, including paid sick leave, paid parental leave, PTO (for non-exempt employees) or non-accrued flexible vacation (for exempt employees).
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