Senior SRE - Applications Performance

Hiring near our Barcelona, Spain Center of Excellence - hybrid work environment.

About Gartner IT: 

Join a world-class team of skilled engineers who build creative digital solutions to support our colleagues and clients. We make a broad organizational impact by delivering cutting-edge technology solutions that power Gartner. Gartner IT values its culture of nonstop innovation, an outcome-driven approach to success, and the notion that great ideas can come from anyone on the team. 

About the role: 

The person will primarily be responsible for supporting production or operations of critical client facing applications. They will ensure the application's operational readiness by evaluating its performance, reliability, scale, resiliency & observability. They will be responsible for identifying issues in production, triaging identified issues, partnering with other engineers on the team to identify the root cause. Other responsibilities include managing applications and infrastructure as a code, creating & executing chaos tests, managing alerts & dashboards.

What you’ll do: 

• As part of the SRE scrum team, perform full stack triaging of alerts and engage other engineers to identify root cause of application performance & stability issues.

• Collaborate with cross functional members of swat team during production incidents and provide critical technical insight to identify the root cause.

• Establish Relationships with stakeholders such as development teams or product owners to define service level objectives (SLOs) for application features/services

• Measure performance against SLOs in partnership with development teams or other stakeholders, and ensure systems continue to meet SLOs over time. 

• Identify opportunities to improve performance, scalability, and stability of applications.

• Participate in operational support and on-call rotation shifts for supported systems and products

• Available to work flexible hours as required to prepare for and/or to provide operational support of select events like major app releases or Gartner hosted conferences, ensuring coordination among globally distributed teams

• Conduct blameless post mortems to troubleshoot priority incidents.

• Design, develop dashboards and reports to communicate key metrics

• Identify opportunities to improve alerting posture and create/update alerts accordingly.

• Oversee, design, implement, and manage DevOps capabilities using continuous integration/continuous delivery toolsets and automation

• Identify opportunities to automate manual operational work (i.e., “toil”) using pipelines or by using new software or any other appropriate mechanisms

• Work closely with the Application team to understand application architecture and perform Single point of failure analysis and create scenarios for testing resiliency of the application

• Create/derive NFR/Workload model and ensure performance & resiliency is considered early in the SDLC. 

• Execute performance/chaos tests, analyze using APM and other tools to identify performance & stability issues.

• Document any findings/analysis/results, communicate and present to stakeholders

• Incorporate automation to reduce the probability and/or impact of problem recurrence

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or related discipline, or equivalent work experience.

• 6+ years of information technology experience with 4+ years working on DevOps or SRE team or similar team.

• Experienced in triaging of production issues using APM tools such as Dynatrace or AppDynamics or New Relic and log aggregation tools such as Splunk, ELK, etc. 

• Experience with SRE concepts like SLI/SLOs & error budgets

• Experience with AWS cloud, specifically services such as EC2, EKS, API GW, Lambda, Route53, SNS, RDS, Elasticcache, OpenSearch, etc. or similar cloud technologies & services

• Knowledge of Docker containers and related orchestration technologies 

• Preferred: Experience with CDN such as Cloudflare and various features like bot management features, Advanced WAF, Coding at edge

• Preferred: Experience with CI/CD processes and tools ( Jenkins, Argo, Harness, etc.)

• Preferred: Experience with chaos engineering 

• Proficient Operating Systems (UNIX/Linux) background.Proficient Operating Systems (UNIX/Linux) background.

• Preferred: Experience with Agile and DevOps development methodologies

• Preferred: Exposure to automation and scripting skills using jenkins, python, shell, etc.

• Preferred: Knowledge of Infrastructure as a code using terraform.

• Ability to work independently and partner with team members with a strong sense of initiative and drive

• Excellent analytical, verbal & written communication skills with data driven analysis

What you will get:

• Competitive compensation

• 23 days annual holiday and an additional day off for your birthday.

• Private Medical and Dental Care.

• Life and Disability Insurance.

• Public Transport Subsidy.

• Ticket Restaurant Card.

• Childcare Vouchers (Ticket Guarderia).

• IncentiFit - annual reimbursement for health-and-wellness-related activities.

• Pension Scheme.

• Tuition Reimbursement.

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Employee Assistance Program.

• Gartner Gives Charity Match.

• Relocation Assistance - a specialist to help you with all the appointments and paperwork.

• Limitless growth and learning opportunities.

• A collaborative and positive culture - join a diverse team of professionals that are as smart and driven as you.

• A chance to make an impact – your work will contribute directly to our strategy.

• A hybrid work environment—enjoy the flexibility of working from home and the energy of collaborating with peers in our dynamic offices.

• New offices close to Glòries and the beach in the fantastic, “innovation and tech” 22@ district of sunny Barcelona.

• Fresh fruit, snacks, selection of teas, fair trade organic coffee and a fridge full of beer for our Thursday Beer O’Clock.

And much more!

Please Note:

- Applications must be submitted in English.

- A valid EU visa/passport is required for this position.

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Who are we? 

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective insight, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to more than 20,000 associates globally who support ~15,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That’s why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

What makes Gartner a great place to work? 

Our sustained success creates limitless opportunities for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. We have a vast, virtually untapped market potential ahead of us, providing you with an exciting trajectory long into the future. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.

We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.

Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations.

We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company, enabling us to multiply our impact and results. This is why, year after year, we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

What do we offer? 

Gartner offers world-class benefits, highly competitive compensation and disproportionate rewards for top performers. 

In our hybrid work environment, we provide the flexibility and support for you to thrive — working virtually when it's productive to do so and getting together with colleagues in a vibrant community that is purposeful, engaging and inspiring.

Ready to grow your career with Gartner? Join us.

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