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Friday, March 25, 2022

Another SRE Job - at Pearson?!?

This must be the week for SRE jobs. This one is at Pearson, where I worked from 5-30-2011 --> 1-26-2016 1702 days (4 years, 7 months, 3 weeks, 6 days). As I mentioned the other day, no, I'm not qualified for this role so no, I'm not going to apply.

However, I do have the following simple questions:

  • what is the standard for including hyperlinks as actual hyperlinks in a job ad - should they be an active hyperlink, as designated below in red or not an active hyperlink, as designated below in purple?
  • I wish there was a standard...
  • what does #LI-POST mean, as designated below in green.


I don't have an answer to either question and it doesn't matter as I am not even applying for what might be an awesome job.


Site Reliability Engineer Iowa City, Iowa 

We are the world’s learning company with more than 24,000 employees operating in 70 countries. We combine world-class educational content and assessment,powered by services and technology, to enable more effective teaching and personalized learning at scale. We believe that wherever learning flourishes so do people.

The Cloud Infrastructure Services team is seeking candidates for a Site Reliability Engineer. SRE’s play an integral role ensuring that our customers have a highly available and reliable platform. The role supports the deployment and customization of our ERP Platform. As a Site Reliability engineer, you will scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.

As an SRE, you will:

  • Design scalable, robust, secure systems using cloud architecture

  • Build automation using industry tools (like Jenkins, Ansible, etc.) to deploy hundreds of different services

  • Ensure a high degree of availability across all of our service offerings.

  • Identify bottlenecks and problems throughout the infrastructure.

  • Drive projects/technical initiatives and architectural/technical service improvements .

  • Build automation to scale infrastructure based on forecasted demand.

  • Develop custom tools as necessary.

  • Document system design and procedures.

  • Maintain applications and services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.

  • Practice sustainable incident response and postmortems.

  • Partner and lead internal and external technology resources in solving complex business needs

  • Participate in an on-call rotation.

  • Provide architectural recommendations

  • Ensure SLA obligations are met.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • 4+ years' hands on experience managing, maintaining, and automating infrastructure in AWS.

  • 4+ years' hands on experience managing and maintaining Linux systems.

  • BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving systems engineering (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Advanced problem-solving experience involving leading teams in identifying, researching, and coordinating the resources necessary to effectively troubleshoot/diagnose complex project issues; prior success extracting/translating findings into alternatives/solutions; and identifying risks/impacts and schedule adjustments to facilitate management decision-making.

  • Hands on Experience with Oracle Database and Middleware Infrastructure.

  • Good understanding of standard networking protocols and components such as: HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, ICMP, the OSI Model, Subnetting and Load Balancing.

  • Fluent in at least one scripting language, Python experience highly preferred.

  • Strong experience using logging and monitoring tools (ie: Splunk, Cloudwatch, NewRelic)

  • Experience with Ansible or other configuration management systems.

  • Strong familiarity with software configuration management systems and/or source code version control systems

  • Excellent English communication skills

The anticipated starting salary range for Colorado-based individuals expressing interest in this position is $100,000.00-$107,000.00. This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program.

Benefits available to eligible employees can be seen at: https://pearsonbenefitsus.com/

Learning is the most powerful force for change in the world. More than 20,000 Pearson employees deliver our products and services in nearly 200 countries, all working towards a common purpose – to help everyone achieve their potential through learning. We do that by providing high quality, digital content and learning experiences, as well as assessments and qualifications that help people build their skills and grow with the world around them. We are the world’s leading learning company. Learn more at pearsonplc.com.

Pearson believes that wherever learning flourishes, so do people. We are committed to being an anti-racist company in everything we do. We value the power of an inclusive culture and a strong sense of belonging. We promote a culture where differences are embraced, opportunities are accessible, consideration and respect are the norm, and all individuals are supported in reaching their full potential. Through our talent, we believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion make us a more innovative and vibrant place to work. People are at the center, and we are committed to a sustainable environment and workplace where talent can learn, grow, and thrive.  

To learn more about Pearson’s commitment to a diverse and inclusive workforce, please click here:  http://www.pearson.com/careers/diversity-and-inclusion.html

Pearson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other group protected by law.

Job: TECHNOLOGY

Organization: Corporate Strategy & Technology

Schedule: FULL_TIME

Req ID: 2109432


Thursday, March 24, 2022

SRE is Intriguing

As my interest in Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR) evolves, I find myself wondering what life would have been like if I had, in the past, tranistioned to being a Site Reliability Engineer. No, I'm definitely not qualified for the position below!

Site Reliability Engineer, Trello

SRE | New York, United States | Remote Americas | Full Time

Apply for this job

Atlassian can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity, assuming candidates have eligible working rights and a sufficient timezone overlap with their team. As our offices re-open, Atlassians can choose to work remotely or return to an office, unless it’s necessary for the role to be performed in the office. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Trello, you’ll work on keeping everything running efficiently as we scale our infrastructure to support our more than 90 million Trello users while maintaining our 99.99% uptime target. The code you write and deploy into production will directly contribute to the scalability and resilience of Trello, and you will directly improve our user’s experience with the product.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Comfortable owning the infrastructure and pragmatically solving problems dealing with complex systems.
  • Working with developers to support the latest features that we have in development, like Power-Ups, data pipeline improvements, and scalable microservices.
  • Contributing your insights across the team to help us improve or re-architect existing systems for scale and extensibility.
  • Contributing to new and existing compliance initiatives.

On your first day, you will have expertise in:

  • Engineering microservices and tools across one or more programming languages (e.g. Go, Python).
  • Automation and Infrastructure-as-Code projects and tooling (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Terraform).
  • Building and maintaining a continuous integration and delivery pipeline (e.g. Bamboo, Bitbucket Pipelines, Github Actions).
  • Observability tools and methodology (e.g. logging, metrics, tracing) for highly available web services.
  • Designing and delivering AWS cloud-native infrastructure solutions.
  • Incident response and management in on-call rotation.
  • Focus on operational maturity and reliability with microservices.

It's great, but not required to have:

  • Experience building and managing large scale, high impact systems on AWS or other cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience with large MongoDB cluster deployments.

More about our benefits

Whether you work in an office or a distributed team, Atlassian is highly collaborative and yes, fun! To support you at work (and play) we offer some fantastic perks: ample time off to relax and recharge, flexible working options, five paid volunteer days a year for your favourite cause, an annual allowance to support your learning & growth, unique ShipIt days, a company paid trip after five years and lots more.

More about Atlassian

Creating software that empowers everyone from small startups to the who’s who of tech is why we’re here. We build tools like Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Trello to help teams across the world become more nimble, creative, and aligned—collaboration is the heart of every product we dream of at Atlassian. From Amsterdam and Austin, to Sydney and San Francisco, we’re looking for people who want to write the future and who believe that we can accomplish so much more together than apart. At Atlassian, we’re committed to an environment where everyone has the autonomy and freedom to thrive, as well as the support of like-minded colleagues who are motivated by a common goal to: Unleash the potential of every team.