Sr Site Reliability Engineer

BMC Software is a leader in IT service and operations management, focusing on delivering innovative solutions. They are seeking a highly skilled Performance SRE Engineer to ensure the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of systems through proactive optimization and cost management initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain up time of systems and applications within agreed SLOs and reduce Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR)
• Design and execute chaos experiments to validate system reliability and fault tolerance. Collaborate with R&D and Operations teams to identify weaknesses and improve system resilience
• Analyze system performance metrics and identify bottlenecks across infrastructure and applications. Implement tuning strategies for Kubernetes clusters, workloads, and cloud resources
• Drive cloud cost optimization strategies and implement FinOps best practices. Monitor and report on resource utilization and cost trends, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives
• Develop and improve observability across the environment, including proactive alerts derived from hyperscaler and Kubernetes metrics, logs, and traces. Enable dashboards for performance, reliability and FinOps KPIs
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters, including upgrades, scaling, and architecture improvements. Implement best practices for container orchestration and workload scheduling
• Work closely with DevOps, engineering, and product teams to ensure performance and reliability goals are met. Document processes, standards, and findings for continuous improvement

Requirements:

• Strong experience with Kubernetes administration and container orchestration
• Hands-on experience with chaos engineering tools and implementation of best practices
• Proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS, OCI, or GCP) and cost optimization strategies
• Familiarity with performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, Locust, k6)
• Expertise with core DevOps and SRE technologies like: Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Jenkins, Terraform, IaaC via Terraform
• Review recurring incidents and identify improvement and automation opportunities and collaboration with product feature development teams