Site Reliability Engineer

Summary
As an SRE I at Allegiant, you play a vital role in the design, maintenance, and performance of all production on-premises and cloud-based systems. You will participate in Allegiant’s cloud transformation efforts to ensure our systems and applications remain highly resilient while adding cloud native functionality to achieve long term scalability and stability. As an SRE I, you will be a champion of innovation by taking the initiative to see problems turned into solutions. It is just as easy for you to work with a team on a large project as it is to simply focus on a goal independently. You are systematic in problem solving, levelheaded under pressure, never satisfied with the status quo, and thrive on creative solutions to problems. You demonstrate a willingness to grow in the technical needs while effectively communicating in either written or verbal form the technical insights into how to refine and improve the system, ultimately ensuring performance, stability, and an exceptional end user experience.

Visa Sponsorship Available
No

Minimum Requirements
Combination of Education and Experience will be considered. Must be authorized to work in the US as defined by the Immigration Act of 1986. Must pass a Criminal Background Check.
Education:  Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Math, MIS or other related field
Years of Experience:
•Minimum two (2) years of experience in 24x7 operations requiring rapid response as a seasoned Linux engineer.
•Minimum one (1) years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering experience in an enterprise Linux environment.

•Professionalism, ambition, flexibility, technical expertise, and open communication are paramount characteristics of the team and its team members.
•Possess a desire to develop creative ways to solve business problems through analysis and technology and has a hands-on mentality to problem solving.
•Possess expert knowledge of the Linux operating system and the full capabilities of the Shell.
•Possess an urge for delivering quickly to support mission critical systems and business goals.
•Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, cloud architectures, and engineering best practices.
•Ability to work with a variety of teams and technologies and dive into complex problems to diagnose, isolate, and resolve issues as they arise.
•Strong foundation in security compliance and adhere to best practices in remediating vulnerabilities, analyzing system scans, and implementing patching automation with zero downtime.
•Track record of building and maintaining excellent working relationships with peers across organizations (QA, Development, PM, Operations, Leadership, etc.).
•Expert experience with the urgency of 24x7, customer-impacting operations, and supporting systems under pressure.
•Independent thinker with creative, resourceful, and proactive problem-solving skills working with a close-knit team that offers full ownership of projects in a supportive design environment.
•Ability to create simulation drills and make recommendations for systems and team response.
•Experience deploying, configuring, administering, and tuning Linux in an enterprise environment.
•Experience supporting the following is required: Linux with applications such as Jboss server, Spring Boot, Tomcat, and Apache.
•Extensive knowledge of Python and applying it across disciplines of system administration and system automation.
•Extensive knowledge of Ansible for system automation.
•Extensive knowledge of infrastructure-related services such as DNS (BIND and Route53), Postfix, SSSD, and LVM across cloud and on-prem systems, including Power architectures.
•Experienced leveraging the capabilities of virtualization platforms, cloud and on-prem, to meet project goals and mitigate impact to users.
•Strong understanding of a broad cross-section of technologies including Databases, Networking, Firewalls, Load Balancing, and Security, their interaction, and impact on the systems.
•Experience supporting fault-tolerant message queuing/brokering systems (e.g. AMQ, RabbitMQ, zeromq, Kafka).
•Extensive experience with designing, configuring, implementing AWS or other cloud services and architecture required; experience transitioning on-prem applications to the cloud preferred.
•Experience/knowledge with service discovery solutions like Consul/Eureka/Zookeeper.
•Experience with building packages for RPM-based systems and architecting custom repositories as needed.
•Experience with backup and monitoring solutions implementations in a cloud environment.
•Experience with developing Infrastructure as Code and implementing immutable systems.
•Experience with monitoring tools (SumoLogic, Splunk, Logstash, ELK, DataDog, Prometheus, etc.).
•Strong and demonstrable experience working in teams with a heavy emphasis on Operations, Automation, Quality, and Performance.
•Excellent analytical thinking, problem-solving, commun