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Site Reliability Engineer IV
Verisign • Reston, VA 20190 • Posted 3 days ago
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Hybrid • Full-time • $132,500-$179,300/yr • Senior Level
Job Highlights
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Verisign is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer IV to lead a team responsible for building, managing, maintaining, and scaling centralized infrastructure services crucial to our mission-critical services. The ideal candidate will have a blend of technical skills and a desire to work as part of a team, focusing on operational process and change management, and mentoring less experienced engineers. This role involves overseeing technical designs, deploying and maintaining services across various platforms, and providing critical technical leadership.
Responsibilities
- Oversee technical designs for software solutions combining Open Source, COTS, and custom components
- Deploy, configure, and maintain services in production, QA, and development environments on various platforms such as OpenStack and Docker
- Develop enabling infrastructure using Terraform
- Develop deployment automation tools including Ansible
- Develop automation and configuration management solutions using SaltStack and Jenkins
- Develop encryption solutions using Hashicorp Vault
- Develop a large-scale Software Defined Network (SDN) using Guardicore
- Document processes, procedures, and configurations
- Coordinate with other technical staff to implement systems and software
- Perform occasional operations support functions, including problem isolation and resolution
- Provide critical technical leadership in operational process and change management
- Mentor less experienced engineers
- Regularly report progress to management
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 8+ years of experience developing and operating mission-critical systems
- Excellent understanding of Linux configuration and administration
- Strong experience with a high-level scripting language such as Python
- Strong automation experience
- Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong understanding of network protocols and security
- Experience developing mature solutions for monitoring and reporting using tools like Grafana and Splunk
- Familiarity with development tools such as Github, Jira, and Confluence
Preferred
- Deployment automation experience using tools such as Ansible
- Experience using Jenkins in a continuous delivery and integration environment
- Experience with Docker or Kubernetes in a production environment
- Experience with OpenStack in a production environment
- Experience with HTTP proxies such as Squid
- Experience with RedHat Enterprise Linux and/or FreeBSD
- Experience with CMDB and ITIL platforms such as ServiceNow
- Experience with RedHat Identity Manager and/or FreeIPA
- Experience administrating Linux and Unix systems in a large scale environment
- Experience using VMWare in a production environment
- Experience working with teams using Kanban and/or Scrum
- Registry Services, E-commerce or ISP environment experience
Full Job Description
Verisign helps enable the security, stability, and resiliency of the internet. We are a trusted provider of internet infrastructure services for the networked world and deliver unmatched performance in domain name system (DNS) services.
We are a mission focused, values driven company where each individual can contribute to building a stronger, more secure internet. We offer a dynamic and flexible work environment with competitive benefits and the ability to grow your career.
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer IV to help lead a team responsible for building, managing, maintaining, and scaling centralized infrastructure services on which our mission-critical services depend. We prize engineering professionals who are equipped with great technical skills and attitudes that motivate those around them. We seek individuals with a sense of purpose and for whom detail and craftsmanship are of their essence; individuals that are curious, demonstrate initiative, and love solving problems.
Responsibilities:
Our ideal candidate will have a unique blend of impeccable technical skills and a desire to work as part of a team to grow themselves and those around them. The team deploys engineers and operates enabling infrastructure in support of mission critical customer applications. The candidate must have:
Desired Skills, Experience, and Attributes:
Verisign is an equal opportunity employer. That means we recruit, hire, compensate, train, promote, transfer, and administer all terms and conditions of employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected categories under applicable law.
Additional Information:
Our Careers Page
Our Benefits Summary
Verisign in the Community
Our EEO Statement
Our Privacy Notice for Job Applicants/Candidates
Reasonable Accommodations
Staffing agency policy: No fees will be paid for unsolicited resumes submitted to Verisign or our employees by third parties.
We are a mission focused, values driven company where each individual can contribute to building a stronger, more secure internet. We offer a dynamic and flexible work environment with competitive benefits and the ability to grow your career.
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer IV to help lead a team responsible for building, managing, maintaining, and scaling centralized infrastructure services on which our mission-critical services depend. We prize engineering professionals who are equipped with great technical skills and attitudes that motivate those around them. We seek individuals with a sense of purpose and for whom detail and craftsmanship are of their essence; individuals that are curious, demonstrate initiative, and love solving problems.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee technical designs for software solutions that combine Open Source components, COTS (commercial off the shelf) components, and custom developed components
- Deploy, configure, and maintain services in production, QA and development environments, on various platforms such as OpenStack and Docker
- Development of enabling infrastructure using Terraform
- Development of deployment automation tools including Ansible
- Development of automation and configuration management solutions using SaltStack and Jenkins
- Development of encryption solutions using Hashicorp Vault
- Development of a large-scale Software Defined Network (SDN) using Guardicore
- Documentation of processes, procedures, and configurations
- Coordination with other technical staff to implement systems and software
- Performance of occasional operations support functions, including problem isolation and resolution
- Documentation of processes, procedures, configurations, and deployment plans
- Provide critical technical leadership in the areas of operational process and change management, and mentor less experienced engineers
- Regularly reporting progress to management
- Participate in a 24x7 on call rotation
Our ideal candidate will have a unique blend of impeccable technical skills and a desire to work as part of a team to grow themselves and those around them. The team deploys engineers and operates enabling infrastructure in support of mission critical customer applications. The candidate must have:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 8+ years of experience developing and operating mission-critical systems
- Excellent understanding of Linux configuration and administration
- Strong experience with a high-level scripting language such as Python
- Strong automation experience. Not just developing automation, but knowing why we automate and what to automate
- Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code
- Strong written and verbal communication skills - able to clearly and succinctly describe complex issues
- Strong understanding of network protocols and security
- Experience developing mature solutions for monitoring and reporting using tools like Grafana and Splunk
- Familiarity with development tools such as Github, Jira, and Confluence
Desired Skills, Experience, and Attributes:
- Deployment automation experience using tools such as Ansible
- Experience using Jenkins in a continuous delivery and integration environment
- Experience with Docker or Kubernetes in a production environment
- Experience with OpenStack in a production environment
- Experience with HTTP proxies such as Squid
- Experience with RedHat Enterprise Linux and/or FreeBSD
- Experience with CMDB and ITIL platforms such as ServiceNow
- Experience with RedHat Identity Manager and/or FreeIPA
- Experience administrating Linux and Unix systems in a large scale environment
- Experience using VMWare in a production environment
- Experience working with teams using Kanban and/or Scrum a plus
- Registry Services, E-commerce or ISP environment experience
This position is based in our Reston, VA office and offers a flexible, hybrid work schedule
The pay range is $132,500 - $179,300.
The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is noted above, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience. Verisign offers a discretionary bonus which is based on individual and company performance, and certain roles may be eligible for discretionary stock awards.
Verisign is an equal opportunity employer. That means we recruit, hire, compensate, train, promote, transfer, and administer all terms and conditions of employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected categories under applicable law.
Additional Information:
Our Careers Page
Our Benefits Summary
Verisign in the Community
Our EEO Statement
Our Privacy Notice for Job Applicants/Candidates
Reasonable Accommodations
Staffing agency policy: No fees will be paid for unsolicited resumes submitted to Verisign or our employees by third parties.
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