Service Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Our vision: Make things come alive !
Billions of objects worldwide will be connected to the Internet; their data will be stored in the cloud and will participate in the digitalization of our environment. Having a global, simple, low-cost and low-power connectivity solution is fundamental. This is the challenge that Sigfox addresses by deploying a low-bandwidth dedicated network, already present in 60 countries.
 Created in 2010 the company is a recognized global pioneer and leader in a sector that is already disrupting business models and will revolutionize the whole of society. The ambition of Sigfox, embodied in the slogan "Make Things Come Alive", is to give a voice to the physical world around us and to allow these billions of objects to play a role in economic and social development. 

SRE is responsible for the availability, performance, efficiency of monitoring, change and incident management, and Sigfox cloud infrastructure capacity.

The main responsibilities of a SRE engineer are the following:
 

• Contribute to the design and implementation of cloud infrastructure to deliver Sigfox services to partners and customers.
• Deploy and guarantee the operational availability of services via monitoring and troubleshooting across all platforms (development, test and production environment) .
• Design, develop and maintain the necessary tools to automate all tasks and operations.
• Analyze the performance of the different components and their capacity, while guaranteeing their reliability. Actively participate in transversal projects within Sigfox.

• System and network administrator or passionate self-taught, with significant experience in open source systems engineering, infrastructure and/or cloud technologies.
• Developer eager to work on the design and administration of automated, scalable and highly available platforms.

Skills

• Proven ability to diagnose and troubleshoot incidents or problems.
• Proactivity for the continuous improvement of processes, methods and work-tools.
• Service culture and sensitive about SLA compliance.
• Autonomy and good organisation capacity.
• Rigor, precision and good oral and written communication.
• Advanced English.

 
Technologies

• Administration GNU / Linux systems and Cloud: virtualization (kvm), AWS, GCP.
• Knowledge of one or more programming languages: Python, Go, Java, Bash or others.
• Automation tools: Ansible, Terraform.
• Container technologies and micro-services environment: Docker, Kubernetes.
• Data, storage, streaming: Mongo DB, Kafka, Elastic Stack, Redis, Percona / Postgre, InfluxDB, Consul / Etcd.
• Monitoring tools: Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana. Knowledge on on-premises server infrastructures appreciated: switches, router (BGP, MPLS),firewalls, load balancer.