Mid - Senior Site Reliability Engineer

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to be part of 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:

• Deploy, configure, and maintain services in production, QA and development environments, on various platforms such as OpenStack, Kubernetes and AWS

• Deploy and maintain containerized application using Docker tools

• 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

• 5+ years of experience developing and operating mission-critical systems

• Excellent understanding of Linux configuration and administration

• 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

• Experience managing cloud-native/K8s applications in public/hybrid cloud environment.

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 and Kubernetes in a production environment

• Experience with AWS or CDN

• Experience with OpenStack in a production environment

• Experience with HTTP proxies such as Squid

• Experience with RedHat Enterprise Linux

• Strong experience with a high-level scripting language such as Python

• Experience with CMDB and ITIL platforms such as ServiceNow

• 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

• Experience with Cryptography and HSMs a plus

• Registry Services, E-commerce or ISP environment experience

• Red Hat Certified System Administrator certification or above

• AWS Cloud Practitioner certification or above

• Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate certification or above

This position is based in our Reston, VA office and offers a flexible, hybrid work schedule.

The pay range is $106,300 - $143,800.

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.