Job description
Systems Reliability Engineer
London, United Kingdom
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We are looking for a well-rounded customer facing professional to join our Systems Reliability team. The right candidate for this role will be passionate about helping customers deploy/maintain/troubleshoot distributed services/applications in the cloud and on-premise infrastructure. You will be responsible for the big picture of how the services in the ThoughtSpot stack relate to each other and use a breadth of tools and approaches to solve a broad spectrum of problems. You are the ideal candidate if you take ownership of customer issues and see problems through to resolution.
What You'll Do:
- Take a customer-first approach to troubleshoot, debug and diagnose product issues.
- Ensure prompt and accurate updates, meet SLAs and provide timely resolution to customer issues.
- Create knowledge-base articles to document knowledge and help customers self service.
- Understand the requirements and nuances of data centers and public cloud (VMware, AWS, Azure, GCP) features.
- Maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot ThoughtSpot cloud infrastructure.
- Work with Engineering teams to define, and implement tools to enhance debuggability, supportability, availability, scalability, and performance.
- Be an expert in cloud and on-premise infrastructure by developing automation and best practices.
- Participate in on-call rotation for critical SRE systems, lead the incident review and root cause analysis.
- Understand cloud NetOps and SecOps aspects.
What You'll Bring:
- B.S. degree in Computer Science or relevant industry experience.
- Relevant work experience troubleshooting Linux Systems.
- Experience in virtualization and Cloud technologies
- Experience in enterprise customer support, on-call rotation for critical SRE systems, leading incident review and root cause analysis.
- Ability to diagnose technical problems and work with Engineering on escalated issues.
- Strong problem solving skills, algorithmic thinking and a strong foundation in how systems should work.
- Understanding of tools & frameworks required to Operate and manage Cloud infrastructure.
- Strong customer service skills.
- Solid communication skills and ability to work independently.
- Ability to leverage automation, monitoring and data analysis to ensure high availability.
- Familiarity with programming languages like C/C++, Python, Go or Java.
- Exposure to infrastructure and service monitoring tools.
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