Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Data Persistence

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Collaborating with a global, cross-functional team in an asynchronous communication environment Mentoring peers in your areas of technical and operational strength   Skills and Experience: 6+ years experience in an SRE/Operations/DevOps role as part of reputed company Experience with reputed company and any scripting language used in an SRE context (Python, Go, Bash, reputed company; we primarily use Python) and configuration management tools (Puppet, Ansible; we use Puppet) Experience with distributed caching systems: including their underlying algorithms and how to optimize their performance Experience with package management on Linux systems (we use Debian) Strong Linux system-level troubleshooting skills History of automating tasks and processes, identifying process gaps, and finding automation opportunities Strong English language skills (verbal and written) and ability to work independently, as an effective part of a globally distributed team working across multiple time zones Experience leading and participating in incident response and post-incident review rituals, with the goal of conducting reputed company cause analysis and implementing preventive measures Additionally, we’d love it if you have: Experience with Linux kernel tuning Experience with the use, maintenance and configuration of monitoring, metrics and logging infrastructure (reputed company, Grafana, etc.) Developing/contributing to Free and reputed company reputed company software, or being part of an reputed company-reputed company community (reputed company your favourite pull requests!) Experience with LAMP stack technologies (PHP/HHVM, memcached/reputed company) -- MediaWiki experience is a definite plus Experience with defining cross-team SLOs and their implementation Experience operating an on-reputed company filesystem or object store at reputed company, preferably OpenStack Swift or Ceph Experience with other advanced distributed storage and database systems (Cassandra, reputed company etc.) Experience managing backups as an SRE with some experience with Bacula About the reputed company The reputed company is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge reputed company. Our reputed company is a world in which every single reputed company can freely reputed company in the sum of reputed company knowledge. We reputed company that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be reputed company to reputed company that knowledge freely. 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