Site Reliability Expert (SRE)

Are you looking to join our Information Technology team in a unique role that contributes to the optimal maintenance of our production environment? Join the Simons family as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE).

The person in this role plays a key part in ensuring the smooth operation of our production environment by adopting a proactive, software-engineering-oriented approach. Reporting to the Director of Solution Architecture and Software Engineering, the SRE is responsible for ensuring the continuous availability of large-scale distributed software applications while maintaining high levels of performance and reliability. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide primary operational support for multiple large-scale distributed software applications.
• Collect and analyze metrics from operating systems and applications to support performance optimization and incident troubleshooting.
• Measure and optimize system performance.
• Deliver infrastructure services using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Maintain services that use the Operator Framework.
• Maintain and enhance continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools using ArgoCD and GitHub Actions.
• Automate IT operations tasks using Ansible.
• Participate in system design consultations, platform management, and capacity planning.
• Balance feature development velocity and reliability with well-defined service-level objectives.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing procedures.
• Build sustainable systems and services through automation and continuous improvement.
• Develop software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications. 

Desired Profile:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, IT engineering, electrical engineering, or any other relevant field.
• At least two (2) years of experience in a role related to DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or software engineering.
• Experience with Kubernetes, preferably Red Hat OpenShift.
• Experience with full-stack observability platforms such as Datadog and New Relic.
• Practical coding knowledge beyond simple scripting.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native approaches.
• Advanced programming skills (structured and object-oriented) using one or more high-level languages such as Java, Python, C/C++, Go, and JavaScript.
• Proactive approach to identifying issues, performance bottlenecks, and areas for improvement.
• Strong teamwork abilities and communication skills to work effectively with diverse stakeholders in a constantly evolving environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively in both French and English, spoken and written, in order to use systems and tools and carry out various tasks in English. 

Benefits Available:  

• A telemedicine service and Employee and Family Assistance Program.  
• Group insurance plan and RRSP.  
• Up to 40% off Simons purchases.  
• Fitness area with changing rooms, group classes, and kinesiology services. 
• Cafeteria service offering an extensive and affordable menu.