Site Reliability Engineer - SRE Lille

About the job

Scaleway is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our teams.

Reporting to a Lead SRE, you will be responsible to ensure we can reliably serve our products for users around the world. We expect you to have a strong background in development and system administration. Our systems evolve constantly and the tools needed to observe and act to ensure their resilience need to evolve accordingly.

Minimum qualifications

• Previous experience as a developer in Go, Python or Rust
• Experience in system programming with usual scripting languages (bash, Python)
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot production systems failures
• A great attitude and desire to work with a team
• Passion for incremental improvements on tooling, love all things of automation
• Experience with Linux systems (Ubuntu/Debian)
• Experience with cloud environments architecture (baremetal, virtual machines, containers, orchestrators)
• Good understanding of computer networks: TCP/IP, DNS, load-balancing, IPv6, BGP and network virtualisation
• Understanding of written and spoken English, capable of writing technical documentation in English, ability to speak English if needed

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with infrastructure as code and continuous deployment
• Experience dealing with physical hardware automation
• Experience with monitoring & logging systems
• Experience administering relational databases
• Knowledge of one cloud platform and related use-cases
• Take initiatives to propose new solutions and defend them
• Team player, willing to share knowledge, opinions, and participate in regular team rituals
• Good communication skills and coaching skills

Responsibilities

• Create or optimize existing tools & documentation that will help identify, diagnose and remediate production incidents, automating as much as possible
• Troubleshoot high-impact issues working with multiple engineering teams
• Take on-call responsibilities, mitigate issues encountered in production and secure the best real-time answer to our customers
• Ensure a high quality of service for our customers by leveraging observability and monitoring technologies
• Manage lifecycle of products in production
• Help implementing best practices in stability, resiliency, scalability, security and performance across our systems

Technical Stack

• Python, Go, Rust
• RabbitMQ
• PostgreSQL
• HA Proxy, Nginx, REST APIs / Flask
• S3 API
• Sentry, Prometheus, Grafana, ElasticSearch, Fluentd, Kibana
• Ansible, AWX, Foreman, Salt
• GitLab, Nexus
• Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS
• Jira, Confluence, Slack, GSuite

Location

This position is based in our offices in Paris or Lille (France).