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Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint’s all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. 20+ years in business. 2.7k employees. 150 countries. 11k+ customers. 300+ patents. If our mission excites you, you’re in the right place; we want you to bring your own energy to help us create a safer world. All we’re missing is you!
Forcepoint is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our Site Reliability Engineering Team. The SRE role will focus on elevating application and service performance and availability in support of our organization’s fast-evolving enterprise technology needs.
The SRE role actively targets risk to service availability for employees and customers by partnering with Engineering and Operations teams leveraging modern observability tooling and service restoration methodologies focused on automation and infrastructure as code where possible.
The ideal candidate will have a broad background spanning both applications and infrastructure. They will have direct experience with multiple coding language, core SRE practices & methodologies.
Job Description:
Monitor, measure and improve the reliability, availability and scalability of IT Infrastructure, applications and services
Identify manual routine operational practices and build robust automation capabilities using code and modern tools
Collaborate with Product Developers and business stakeholders to gather requirements for enabling and improving performance monitoring for applications and services
Engage in Incident response and participate in post-mortem analysis to investigate root cause and capture contributing factors for remediation
Perform analytics on previous incidents and trend/usage patterns to better predict issues and take proactive actions
Design and build custom tools as needed to support process optimization, challenging the status-quo and improving operational efficiency
Participate in 24*7 rotational shifts & On-Call for handling production operation issues
Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning
Create meaningful dashboards/reports for application telemetry and infrastructure health for pro-actively identifying performance constraints and bottlenecks
Requirements:
University degree and 4+ years of related experience, or equivalent work experience.
Strong understanding of cloud-based architecture and cloud operations. Hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services and/or equivalent public cloud technology
Experience in administration/build/management of Linux systems
Foundational understanding of Infrastructure and Platform Technology stacks
Strong understanding of Networking concepts and theories, such as different protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, routing protocols, etc), VLAN configuration, DNS, OSI layers, and load balancing
Understanding of security architecture and certificate management
Working knowledge of Infrastructure and Application monitoring platforms such as Grafana Cloud, Solarwinds, NewRelic, DataDog etc.
Working knowledge of Incident Response and Alerting platforms such as PagerDuty, Opsgenie, XMatters etc.
Understanding of the core DevOps practices (CI/CD pipeline, release management etc.)
Ability to write code using any one modern programming language (Phython, JavaScript, Ruby etc.). Additional scripting skills are preferred
Configuration management platform understanding and experience (Chef/Puppet/Ansible)
Prior experience in Cloud management automation tools (Terraform/CloudFormation etc.) is crucial
Experience with source code management software and API automation is crucial
Cloud certifications or equivalent experience is highly regarded
Service availability oriented mindset with a pro-active approach to problem solving. An ideal candidate should be able to develop automated solutions to prevent recurring problems
Possesses the ability and willingness to challenge the status-quo and optimize current procedures and processes
Strong sense of ownership and an ability to drive cross-functional process improvement
Possesses excellent inter-personal, written and verbal communications skills
Analytical and logical approach to problem-solving and a willingness to automate repetitive tasks and reduce manual/re-active workload
Ability and willingness to coach and mentor Team members and colleagues
Don’t meet every single qualification? Studies show people are hesitant to apply if they don’t meet all requirements listed in a job posting. Forcepoint is focused on building an inclusive and diverse workplace – so if there is something slightly different about your previous experience, but it otherwise aligns and you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply. You could be a great candidate for this or other roles on our team.
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