Key skills
PythonSQLBashGoogle CloudKubernetesHelmIAMDatadogIstioService MeshCI/CDCommunicationNetwork Security
About this role
Hopper is a leading travel platform on a mission to enhance global travel experiences. They are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their Cloud FinOps team, focusing on optimizing infrastructure and cost efficiency in Google Cloud while ensuring reliability and scalability for their services.
Responsibilities:
- Work on projects that will drive a higher cost efficiency, such as: Reduce our network egress costs by removing unnecessary headers
- Ensure that our warehouse data is in use and select the most efficient storage for it. E.g., cold storage for buckets with infrequent retrieval
- Ensure that autoscaling for both databases and compute is well optimized
- Work on improving the current cost attribution to ensure all teams have clear visibility into their costs
- Participate in providing support to incidents and be part of on-call rotation for platform incidents, as each engineering team has their own on-call rotation
- Contribute to solving doubts and problems engineers might face with our infrastructure and approving PRs that require Platform supervision
Requirements:
- Strong background in SRE, DevOps, Software Engineering or Systems engineering
- Troubleshooting skills
- System design with good analytical capabilities
- Good communication skills
- Knowledge of major cloud providers, preferably Google Cloud
- SQL knowledge
- Containers, Kubernetes, and related tooling like Kustomize and Helm
- Service Mesh, preferably with Istio
- Networking knowledge. DNS, TLS, certificates, ingresses, etc
- Observability with log collection, metrics, APM, etc. preferably Datadog
- Security knowledge, IAM, RBAC, network security, etc
- Knowledge on authentication and authorization technologies
- CI/CD
- Database technologies
- Competent in scripting with Bash and Python or other scripting languages