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Infrastructure Support Engineer
Location
Australia
Posted
7 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Mid Level
Job Description
Infrastructure Support Engineer
Thoughtworks
Role Description As a consultant Infrastructure Support Engineer, your daily responsibilities are integral to ensuring technical excellence and operational efficiency, particularly in cloud environments. Your contribution as a first responder extends to automating day-to-day operations, responding to and escalating production incidents, and assisting development teams in incident resolution. - You will keep a vigilant eye on the operations of shipped products and services following the agreed upon “Eyes on glass/Follow the sun” engagement models. - You will monitor product/service operations against key performance indicators defined by the business and take necessary actions in response to detected deviations. - You will document the appropriate responses to various kinds of incident scenarios in collaboration with development teams and prepare runbooks. - You will reduce the human effort in day-to-day operations by automating, configuring and tweaking alerts, and monitoring as necessary. - You will respond to production incidents and execute well defined responses, raising the incident to higher levels of support wherever necessary. - You will assist development teams in incident resolution as necessary, e.g.: as a pair, providing updates, handling communication, etc. - You will assist in conducting incident root cause analysis (RCA), preparing incident postmortem reports, communicating incident RCA to client stakeholders whenever necessary and responding to queries and resolution approaches. - You will pair on implementing service/product reliability improvement by writing infrastructure/observability configuration code, in collaboration with service reliability engineers. Qualifications - You are familiar with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitlabCI, CircleCI, etc. - You have had exposure to log aggregation systems, e.g.: EFK, Splunk, Datadog. - You have hands-on experience with monitoring, alerting and observability, e.g.: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog. - You possess a good understanding of at least one Public Cloud, e.g.: AWS, Azure, GCP. - You have hands-on experience executing most common operations in managing workloads on any container ecosystem tech stacks e.g.: Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift. - You have a basic understanding of API concepts such as request, response, headers, authentication, JSON payloads, etc. - You have a basic understanding of networking including concepts such as high availability, load balancing and proxies. - You have a basic understanding of traffic load management approaches such as horizontal and vertical scaling. - You have a basic understanding of availability concepts such as downtime, time to recover/restore, SLAs, etc. - You have experience running basic system administration operations in a Linux operating system such as RHEL or Ubuntu. Requirements - You have good communication skills and are proficient in English. - You can confidently hold a Q&A discussion. - You have a good attitude towards learning new technical skills and concepts. - You possess innovative thinking and confidence in suggesting ideas to the team. - You have strong drive and ownership to sign up and deliver work when called upon without being too concerned with role boundaries. - You are willing to be part of a rotation- and need-based 24x7 team. Benefits - There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. - Your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. - We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys.
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