Hybrid IT Resiliency Engineer

at AppSierra

• Job title: IT Resiliency Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, Cloud
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Pune, India

About the role

• IT Resiliency Engineer at Appsierra overseeing resilient engineering design and implementation across technology domains. Collaborating with cross-functional teams on resiliency and recovery efforts.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the design and implementation of resilient engineering across the technology domains.
• Design and review resilient solutions in both cloud-based and on-premises environments.
• Lead chaos engineering efforts to proactively identify and mitigate potential system weaknesses.
• Collaborate with Teams to evolve existing standards for system monitoring and alerting to ensure rapid detection and response.
• Represent the IT Resiliency Office during the Architectural Review Board.
• Collaborate with various teams across the organization to align and prioritize resiliency and recovery efforts.
• Expertise with IaC and Tools such as Ansible.
• Integrate with post mortem process, from a major incident, to identify areas of opportunity for enhancing resiliency.
• Evangelize standards and practices among the Technology organization to enrich our resiliency posture.
• Develop standardized regular reporting on resilience activities, risks, and improvements to the Leadership team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5-10 years experience with platform engineering with a focus on IaC, DevOps practices, and orchestration tools.
• Preferred but not required experience as a Team lead or a hands on Technical Manager role that can engage and deliver projects to completion.
• A track record of successfully architecting and deploying enterprise-level solutions that prioritize system uptime and data integrity across various operational scenarios.
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement systems that ensure high availability, support massive transaction volumes, and facilitate seamless disaster recovery processes.
• Infrastructure and service architecture & engineering experience, including functional and technical requirements gathering, and solution development.
• Strong dedication to customer needs, with excellent communication and the ability to build lasting relationships, alongside the capability to articulate complex resilience strategies in a clear and impactful manner.
• Deep insight into the complexities of multi-AZ and multi-Region cloud platforms, with a keen understanding of how these impact system resilience and disaster recovery planning.
• Proven experience in the ongoing management of mission-critical systems that require constant uptime, including out-of-hours support and rapid response to incidents.
• Knowledgeable in evaluating and deciding on trade-offs between consistency, availability, and partition tolerance, especially in the context of system failures and recovery strategies.
• Well-versed in various cloud service models such as SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, with hands-on experience in designing resilient services on leading public cloud platforms.
• Proficient in Chaos Engineering principles and practices, with experience in designing and conducting experiments to validate the system's capability to withstand turbulent conditions.
• Skilled in implementing observability solutions that provide real-time insights into the performance and health of systems, aiding in proactive issue detection and resolution.
• Practical experience operating in an Agile development environment.