Flexera saves customers billions of dollars in wasted technology spend. A pioneer in Hybrid ITAM and FinOps, Flexera provides award-winning, data-oriented SaaS solutions for technology value optimization (TVO), enabling IT, finance, procurement and cloud teams to gain deep insights into cost optimization, compliance and risks for each business service. Flexera One solutions are built on a set of definitive customer, supplier and industry data, powered by our Technology Intelligence Platform, that enables organizations to visualize their Enterprise Technology Blueprint™ in hybrid environments—from on-premises to SaaS to containers to cloud.
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We’re looking for a high-energy, highly motivated Site Reliability Engineer that will be a key member of the SRE team within Spot (recently acquired by Flexera).
The SRE will work across a vast array of cloud-based mission-critical systems, services, and technologies with a focus on databases, aiming to build an autonomous, monitored, fault-tolerant infrastructure that is optimized for both simplicity and uptime. The senior SRE will collaborate with the backend, frontend and DevOps engineering teams to ensure that product solutions are scalable, efficient, and reliable.
will design infrastructure to support our massive growth and work with the team to maintain the highest level of service.
Key Responsibilities:
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Assist in the design, construction and improvement of the SRE team infrastructure in the areas of monitoring, incident management, change management using infra as a code.
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Mentoring, recommendations for improving and streamlining the database area in the team in aspects of indexes, retention, load, slow queries, user data distribution, troubleshooting, performance degradation, connectivity problems, and other database-related incidents.
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Work on mission critical systems in a large-scale SaaS production environment.
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Work with cloud native advanced technologies and solutions such as Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Prometheus and cloud managed services.
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Work closely with application developers and stakeholders to ensure that the database structure is efficient, scalable, and meets the organization's requirements.
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Be responsible for installing and configuring database management systems (such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB etc.) across all cloud providers (Azure, GCP, AWS).
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Monitor database performance, analyze query execution plans, and identify bottlenecks or performance issues.
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Perform routine maintenance tasks, such as provisioning, decommission, cost optimization and database upgrades while ensuring compatibility with existing applications and data.
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Oversee data migration projects when transitioning from one database system to another or when consolidating data from multiple sources.
Job Requirements
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5+ years of experience in a similar role and strong experience in AWS & Azure clouds computing, with a focus on AWS.
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5+ years supporting large scale in production applications\services in an SRE or similar role.
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Experience working on Production environments taking into consideration high scale, disaster recovery, zero downtime upgrades and migrations.
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5+ years of strong knowledge with Linux based systems, various system-level topics – OS, file system management, networking protocols & technologies such as TCP/IP, SSL/TLS, CDNs.
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Ability to work in a fast-paced, context-switching environment with teams distributed across multiple time zones.
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Knowledge and experience with docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes – Preferred).
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Experience with Infrastructure as code, and deployments performed using descriptive languages such as Ansible & Terraform (Preferred).
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Self-driven and eager to learn with can-do attitude.
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Well organized and detail oriented, analytical abilities, and problem-solving.
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Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana & CloudWatch.
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Good English written and verbal communication and collaboration skills.
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Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Advantage:
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Experience as a DBA/Data Engineer
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2+ years of hands-on experience working with large cloud relational MySQL and PostgreSQL database management, maintenance, monitoring, and optimization – Must, columnar and analytical databases (such as ELK, MongoDB)
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Scripting Proficiency in Python and Shell (Bash), advanced OOP knowledge in languages such as Python, Java
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Flexera understands the value that results from employing a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce. We recognize that equity necessitates acknowledging past exclusion and that inclusion requires intentional effort. Our DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) council is the driving force behind our commitment to championing policies and practices that foster a welcoming environment for all.
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What We Do
Flexera delivers SaaS-based IT management solutions that enable enterprises to accelerate digital transformation and multiply the value of their technology investments. We help organizations inform their IT with definitive visibility into complex hybrid IT ecosystems, providing unparalleled IT insights that allow them to seize technology opportunities. And we help them transform their IT with tools that deliver actionable intelligence across an ever-increasing range of dimensions to effectively manage, govern and optimize their hybrid IT estate.
More than 50,000 customers subscribe to our technology value optimization solutions, delivered by 1,300+ passionate team members worldwide. To learn more, visit flexera.com
Why Work With Us
People work here for, well, the people. People stay for the camaraderie with smart, passionate teams who actually like working together and managers who support them. We also offer competitive benefits, hybrid working and unlimited time off.
Our inclusivity scores are in the top benchmark and we are consistently rated a “great place to work.”
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