SRE or OPS Databricks

Job description

**Role & responsibilities** - Define and Uphold Reliability Standards: Establish and manage Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets for the OpenShift platform and its core services. - Automate Everything: Design, build, and maintain robust automation to handle the full lifecycle of OpenShift clusters, including provisioning, upgrades, patching, scaling, and disaster recovery. - Reduce Toil: Proactively identify and eliminate manual, repetitive operational work by developing and maintaining automation scripts (Python, Go, Bash) and Ansible playbooks. - Incident Response and Root Cause Analysis: Lead high-severity incident response and conduct deep, blameless post-mortems to identify and implement permanent solutions to prevent recurrence. - Proactive Health Management: Develop and implement automated health checks and self-healing capabilities to ensure cluster and application resilience. - Subject Matter Expertise: Serve as the top-tier technical authority for OpenShift Container Platform architecture, networking (OVN-Kubernetes, SDN), load balancing, cross cluster management, storage (OpenShift Data Foundation/Ceph), and security. - Observability: Architect and manage a comprehensive observability stack (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Fluentd) to provide deep insights into platform and application performance. - CI/CD and GitOps: Engineer and optimize CI/CD pipelines for both platform components and tenant applications, championing GitOps principles for declarative configuration management. - Capacity and Performance: Conduct advanced performance tuning, load testing, and capacity planning to ensure the platform can meet future demand. Required Qualifications: Experience - 8+ years of overall experience in roles such as Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Linux Systems Engineering. - 5+ years of hands-on, intensive experience administering, automating, and troubleshooting Red Hat OpenShift (OCP 4.x preferred) in large-scale production environments. - Proven experience in a senior or lead engineering role, demonstrating ownership of complex projects and mentorship of others. Technical Skills - Expert-Level OpenShift: Deep, authoritative knowledge of OCP installation (IPI/UPI), upgrades, cluster administration, node management, and disaster recovery. - Kubernetes Mastery: A fundamental and deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture and components (etcd, kube-apiserver, scheduler, etc.) and Operators (OLM). - Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Strong proficiency with Ansible and Terraform for automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration management. - Programming/Scripting: Advanced scripting and software development skills in Python or Go, as well as Bash. - Observability: Hands-on experience building and managing monitoring and logging solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Alertmanager, ELK Stack, Splunk, Fluentd/Vector/OTEL). - CI/CD & GitOps: Expertise with CI/CD tooling (e.g., Tekton ,Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions). - Core Infrastructure: Strong proficiency in Linux/RHEL administration, networking (SDN, OVS, routing, firewalls, load balancer), and storage (Ceph, NFS, block storage, Object). Education & Certifications - Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. - Preferred Certifications: Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration (EX280) or Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Reliability (EX380/EX480). Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) is a strong plus. Soft Skills - Analytical Mindset: Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to diagnose complex technical issues across multiple platform layers. - Ownership and Accountability: A strong sense of ownership and the drive to see issues through to resolution. - Communication: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of explaining complex topics to both technical and non-technical audiences. - Composure: Ability to remain calm and effective under pressure during critical incidents. On-Call - Willingness to participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation to handle critical platform incidents. **Preferred candidate profile**