Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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About Signify

Through bold discovery and cutting-edge innovation, we lead an industry that is vital for the future of our planet: lighting. Through our leadership in connected lighting and the Internet of Things, we're breaking new ground in data analytics, AI, and smart solutions for homes, offices, cities, and beyond.

At Signify, you can shape tomorrow by building on our incredible 125+ year legacy while working toward even bolder sustainability goals. Our culture of continuous learning, creativity, and commitment to diversity and inclusion empowers you to grow your skills and career.

Join us, and together, we’ll transform our industry, making a lasting difference for brighter lives and a better world. You light the way.

More about the role

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.