Site Reliability Engineer (shift-work)

What do we do?
As a pioneer for digital transformation GFT develops sustainable solutions across new technologies – from cloud engineering and artificial intelligence to blockchain/DLT. With its deep technological expertise, strong partnerships, and comprehensive market know-how GFT offers advice to the financial and insurance sectors, as well as in the manufacturing industry. Through the intelligent use of IT solutions GFT increases productivity and creates added value for clients. Companies gain easy and safe access to scalable IT-applications and innovative business models.

Who are we?
Having started in Germany in 1987, GFT Technologies has grown to become a trusted Software Engineering and Consulting specialist for the international financial industry, counting many of the world’s largest and best-known Banks as our clients. We are an organization that empowers you to not only explore but raise your potential and seek out opportunities that add value. At GFT, diversity, equality, and inclusion are at the core of who we are. Ensuring a diverse and inclusive working environment for all communities is one of the main pillars of our diversity strategy, based on our core values and culture. We have been certified for 2022/23 as a ‘Great place to work’ in the APAC region. So, if you want to have the opportunity to work with an outstanding and progressive organization this position could be right for you.

Role Summary
SRE ensures smooth day-to-day operations of the Bank. Understanding of production system access and control, production deployment, Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, continuous deployment and systems observability is essential for this role.

Key Responsibilities
• Participate in on-call rotations(*) to provide support for critical systems. Engineers are required to work on a rotating 2-2-2 schedule: 2 morning shifts followed by 2 days off, 2 afternoon shifts followed by 2 days off, and 2 night shifts followed by 2 days off.
• Morning: 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM
• Afternoon: 05:00 PM - 02:00 AM
• Night: 01:00 AM - 10:00 AM
• Resolve system incident when occurs
• Deployment of changes into staging and production environments
• Work with Platform Engineers to understand the changes
• Develop deployment pipeline for changes
• Understand the changes and develop observability (monitoring and alert) according to the changes
• Develop and conduct resiliency testing solution
• Continuous enhancement of monitoring solution
• Create and update operation runbooks
• Automate operation runbooks

Required Skills and Qualifications
Technical Skill
• Strong experience with Amazon Web Services
• Strong experience and understanding of Kubernetes system
• Scripting skills with Python or Bash
• Experience in continuous deployment tools
• Harness (good to have)
• Experience in infrastructure as code (IaC) tools
• Terraform
• Experience with observability solutions
• Prometheus & Grafana
• SumoLogic (good to have)

Soft Skills
• Good in communication and able to communicate fluently in English
• Good problem solving skill
• Self-motivated and able to learn fast

What can we offer you?
• Competitive salary
• 13th-month salary guarantee
• Performance bonus
• Professional English course for employees
• Premium health insurance

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to respond to every candidate individually. If you have not received a response from GFT regarding your application within 10 workdays, please consider that we have decided to proceed with other candidates. We truly appreciate your interest in GFT and thank you for your understanding.