Job Description

Our Client is an established company in Singapore, who is seeking to recruit a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE).Key ResponsibilitiesPosition SummaryThe Digital Technology department in Group IT are responsible for building all of consumer and enterprise facing, channel applications & APIs, from mobile applications to eCommerce websites. These applications are primarily built using a microservices architecture on the AWS public cloud. The majority of our applications are deployed as Spring Boot microservices on Kubernetes (AWS EKS).The Digital Technology Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team act as an enabler for our application squads, empowering these "Build-Run" teams to take more responsibility for their production systems, by ensuring that they have the right tools, skills and hands-on experience to succeed in production.The SRE team consists of Software Engineers who are tasked with building the next generation operations automation & observability platform for our hybrid multi-cloud applications. This platform focuses on the deploy, operate and monitor phases of the DevOps lifecycle. The platform is primarily an extension and customisation of Kubernetes as our standard runtime platform, so prior experience as a software engineer working on or preferably extending Kubernetes is essential.The SRE team also mentor and guide application squads on operational best practices for cloud native applications, such as configuration & secret management, observability engineering, data operations, security, etc. as well as partnering with these team to evolve a culture of SRE practices including fundamentals such as SLIs, SLOs and error budgets. The team will also be involved in production & non-production incidents, including post-mortems & advising and in some cases delivering permanent corrective actions.Key Responsibilities

• Building & supporting the next generation Cloud Application Runtime Platform for Digital Technologies
• Mentoring development squads on Kubernetes, cloud engineering, cloud native best practices including configuration & observability
• Building self-service operations, delivery pipelines, primarily GitOps based with kubernetes controllers
• Cloud native application monitoring, log aggregation and distributed tracing platforms and tooling
• Supporting production incidents and solution of permanent corrective actions

RequirementsMandatory Experience

• BSc in Computer Science or related discipline
• Min. 8 years of work experience in Java software development, including 3+ years of Spring Boot microservice development. You will be required to sit a Java programming test.
• Experience building and deploying cloud native applications on Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, OCP)
• Solid understanding of Linux, networking & distributed systems
• Observability tools, ELK, Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch, Grafana, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, etc.

Desirable Experience

• Building and deploying cloud native applications on the public cloud, ideally on AWS.
• Working in a start-up or another environment with a wide scope of responsibilities
• Working on a platform engineering team
• Production support of systems, for example, on a L3 support rota, etc
• Professional certifications in Java, Linux, Networks, AWS or Kubernetes a bonus
• Beneficial if you have experience in some of the following:

• Experience working on an SRE team / being part of an SRE maturity journey
• Argo stack; ArgoCD for GitOps, Events, Workflows, Rollouts, etc
• Go, Python or Groovy development
• Experience analysing Java heap / thread dumps
• Data Engineering & Analysis, ETL pipelines, etc.
• Cloud Engineering on Hybrid multi-clouds using Terraform, Crossplane, AWS ACK & CDK
• Network Mgmt. tools such as, Apigee, Kong, Envoy, NGINX, Istio
• Configuration Mgmt. tools such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef
• Application Performance Monitoring tools, such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Elastic APM
• JBoss, Tomcat, Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

JJ Consulting ServicesEA Licence No.: 12C6207We thank all applicants in advance and regret that only short listed candidates will be notified.Job Type: Full-timeSalary: $4,926.64 - $14,902.28 per monthSchedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• SRE: 1 year (Preferred)