Job TitleSite Reliability Engineer - Tier 1
Job Description
Site Reliability Engineer
Signify, the new company name of Philips Lighting, is the global leader in lighting building on 125+ years of innovations. Our purpose is to unlock the extraordinary potential of light for brighter lives and a better world.
We are proud to be ahead of the game in the Internet of Things and being carbon neutral. We learn through disruptive challenges and our performance is powered through our diverse teams. Our Philips products, Interact connected lighting systems, and data-enabled services transform people’s lives in homes, buildings, and public spaces.
As part of the Cloud Center of Exellence, you will be responsible for the provision of our professional web-based services to our business customers. We are rolling out our services in various regions of the world and you will contribute by developing reliable, efficient, scalable and secure services. We believe in automation as the key to solving operational challenges. There is no problem you cannot solve - an international multi-disciplined operations team across the globe will work with you hand in hand.
You will be based in our European Operations Centre in Bangalore. Your activities include occasional international travel to Europe.
Your role:
- You are the operational owner for one or more customer-facing systems and coordinate all operational changes.
- You are the expert in AWS cloud technologies and consult teams on available technologies, services and best practices.
- You design your systems for maximum robustness and maximize the operational performance.
- You facilitate a permanent knowledge exchange by sharing your experiences, training others and continuous learning.
Your skills:
As Site Reliability Engineer you aim to solve operational problems by software and have experience in the following areas:
- Practical experience in operating customer-facing services in the Amazon AWS cloud environment, having an AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification or equivalent knowledge.
- A reference project where you have optimized a system for scalability, performance and reliability.
- Software development experience and programming skills in multiple scripting or higher languages.
- You have designed comprehensive monitoring tools (Icinga, AWS Cloudwatch, etc.), to collect and analyse data for further system optimization.
- Building a CI/CD pipeline
- Building infrastructure out of source code using Terraform.
- Experience with distributed systems and complex network architecture – DNS, firewalls, routing, tunnels are known to you.
- Knowledge in Site Reliability concepts e.g. having an SRE foundation certification.
- Linux server administration
- Experience in agile software environments e.g. Scrum or SAFe
- Software testing and designing test strategies is a plus
- ITIL foundation certification is a plus
- Language: Fluent English a must, other languages a plus.
