Lead SRE (Site Reliability)

About Cake Solutions

A BAMTECH MEDIA COMPANY - Delivering Direct to Consumer video at scale.

Cake Solutions delivers well-engineered, resilient, responsive, and elastic systems. Successful systems are not just lines of code; they are a result of the best architecture, engineering, and project management. We all come to work to make our systems elastic, resilient, and responsive, but also ready for change. Our expertise in engineering & delivering distributed systems enables us to excel in implementing business-critical Internet of Things, media delivery, and e-commerce systems.

Position

• Continuously refine monitoring processes, thresholds, and configuration
• Work closely with product developers to ensure new features have the proper operational support and maintainability - provide deep technical guidance to development teams
• Help with designing, building and maintaining the cloud native platform needed to support our growth plans, we do that handling Infrastructure as code and automating as much as we can
• Mentoring and supporting team members on production readiness and best practices
• Develop software for the purposes of automating, monitoring and maintaining deployed infrastructure and services
• Handling high-severity internal or customer incidents, ensuring we meet all SLAs
• Help teams create and maintain documentation and runbooks/playbooks
• Participate in Scrum processes and ceremonies
• Respond to issues and escalations
• Participate in on-call rotation

Your qualification

• Track record of leading a team of Software or Systems Engineers
• Track record of working as a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or a Software Engineer
• Must be able to code and learn coding in new languages
• Experience in at least one scripting language: Python, Ruby, Bash, Perl
• Experience in working with infrastructure as code tools such as Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, Ansible, CloudFormation, Terraform etc.
• Track record of working with Linux systems in production
• Experience in working with container technologies such as Docker
• Experience in working with cloud platforms such as AWS

Will be a plus

• Experience using Agile practices
• Experience with modern open source infrastructure services and concepts such as Redis, ElasticSearch, Kafka, and Docker
• Experience in software development in any language. Our focus languages are Go and Scala
• Experience in working with any functional programming language such as Clojure, Haskell, or OCaml

What we offer

This is an opportunity to take over the newest department within the Cake/Bamtech org, and will give you scope to have influence over some of the largest streaming platforms in the market. On offer is a competitive salary (that will be discussed at interview), with a new benefits package created by Disney. 

Additional details

We love bleeding edge technology, that’s why Cake became a Scala shop in 2011 and have been supporting the tech community through conferences, meetups and blogs ever since. Our current stack consists of, but not limited to, Linux, AWS, Scala, Go, Puppet, Docker, and Jenkins.