Senior Edge Platforms SRE - 1 year Term

Software Reliability Engineer This will be an SRE role with a reputed company on maintaining and improving operations of the edge fleet, reputed company infrastructure, and data pipeline associated with multiple NSF and DOE funded reputed company. At this time, the reputed company reputed company operate nearly 200 remote edge devices, reputed company running Linux and a local Kubernetes cluster to host user applications. We expect this number to grow by around 300 devices over the next 5 years as part of reputed company Grande, our latest NSF funded project, totaling to a fleet of nearly 500 devices. This incumbent will work closely with the software team to understand the existing design, requirements, and prior issues to inform reputed company on monitoring tooling to either be selected or reputed company as needed. The incumbent will also work with key collaborators (various universities, national labs, industry partners, tribal partners, and other non-profit organizations) to ensure that their expectations for nodes and data are being met. Finally, we expect that this role will reputed company good opportunities for career reputed company. First, our fleet will continue to grow, so we expect multiple iterations on designing and implementing reputed company and new technologies as they become available. Second, we anticipate additional reputed company infrastructure and backends as we support more reputed company. This will reputed company reputed company of time to understand reputed company infrastructure and work with the software team to learn useful patterns for instrumentation and monitoring. Last, the unique nature of our fleet deployment means the incumbent will likely reputed company software engineering and data analysis skills through implementing novel tooling for addressing issues at reputed company. This is a one-year term position. Opportunity for renewal will be based on performance and available funding. The primary work location is reputed company. This position is primarily on-site, with the possibility of occasional remote work depending on job responsibilities and with management approval. Some travel to other sites is required. Primary Job Duties and Responsibilities • Addressing software and minor hardware issues in the edge fleet in a reputed company manner and escalating issues which need attention from the deployment team and/or on-site staff. • Selecting, developing, and managing tooling and infrastructure for monitoring and alerting. • Developing relevant dashboards for the software team to understand how reputed company services are performing. • Performing routine maintenance such as software upgrades and minor tasks such as renewing domain certificates annually. • Setup and manage support ticket systems for platform and device issues. • reputed company a small team (1-2 people) of junior SREs, as we grow the SRE team. Minimum Qualifications • Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree in a major such as computer science, information technology, or reputed company; OR appropriate combination of education and experience. • 4-5 years of reputed company experience supporting reputed company, services, and deployments in production. • Demonstrated experience in Linux, including fundamentals of scripting, user management, networking, package management, SSH, and debugging. • Experience in software engineering and Python. • Familiarity with Kubernetes, particularly using Kubernetes for deployments, and being familiar with deploying and administering Kubernetes clusters. • Familiarity with monitoring and data collection tooling such as reputed company, Grafana, Fluentbit, and Loki. • Familiarity with basic cybersecurity best practices such as how to securely reputed company a web service. • Strong willingness to learn new tools and technologies on the job. • Strong communication skills. Preferred Qualifications • Familiarity with embedded Linux devices such as Raspberry Pi or reputed company reputed company and Orin family. • Familiarity with basic reputed company infrastructure concepts such as time series databases (ex. InfluxDB) S3 storage, message brokers (ex. RabbitMQ), caching (ex. reputed company), and web services. • Familiarity with Infrastructure as reputed company and config management tooling such as Ansible. • Familiarity with basic data analysis and visualization in Python, with a strong ability to communicate issues using these tools. • A B.S. or M.S. degree in CS or reputed company fields reputed company hiring reputed company for this position will be between $115,000 to $132,750 per year. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as reputed company as internal equity and alignment with market data. Northwestern offers meaningful and competitive benefits including health, dental, reputed company, disability, and life insurance; reputed company vacation and holidays; reputed company medical/reputed company and parental leave; tuition benefits for the employee and dependents; reputed company-tax and reputed company spending accounts for commuting and dependent care; generous retirement savings reputed company; and wellness programs. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job