Maybe you didn’t know, but IOHK / IO Global is a long time corporate driver within the entire Nix ecosystem.
Important functions of our company like DevOps & SRE being born out of the Nix ecosystem spirit, we open source (almost) everything we do based on our open-source-by-default policy.
At the heart of Nix@IOG, we are looking for a couple of folks to complete our exquisite Resident SRE team, of which I attached the role description below.
If you’ve got the skills and/or are hungry and thirsty to learn a ton, please join our team partly constituted of ex-release managers for Nixpkgs, like @nrdxp, @jonringer or @disassembler , whom you can ping for technical questions about the job at any time.
Once you want to get more serious about your application or for any HR-related questions, please contact @Posh or @IOHKDaveR in a DM.
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IOHK | Role Definitions| iohk.io
| Department: | Job Function: | Motto: |
|---|---|---|
| Operations | Resident Service Reliability Engineer | Keep things ticking like a clock |
Summary
Do you also get allergic reactions from inefficiencies? Let’s fix ‘em!
As a Resident Service Reliability Engineer at IOHK you will work chiefly with one of our diverse projects to plan, teach and implement fully reproducible GitOps-based operations across various pre-production and production environments on the blockchain.
As part of our well-structured SRE team, you will work closely with internal domain experts to ensure high-quality, stable environments for our internal and external customers.
Duties
- Working on ‘build and deployment cycles’ across all development environments
- Supporting the build, deployment, and configuration management for multi-tier applications
- Participating in the building of tools and processes to support the infrastructure.
- Improving and maintaining tooling and scripts for automation purposes
- Supporting our teams to write software that is simple and flexible to configure and deploy
- Collaborating with agile teams to establish and maintain automated regression suite infrastructure and performance testing infrastructure
- Building capabilities to allow development teams to be self-sufficient
- Explore and implement latest best practices ranging from open telemetry to zero trust architectures, from 12-factor design to hybrid remote-local development environments
Key Competencies
Minimum requirement: 2 out of 3 or very strong Nix experience.
- Nix experience using the tools within the nix ecosystem and specifically using nix as a configuration language
- SysAdmin experience administering application servers, containers, and web servers
- Datacenter Scheduler experience with schedulers like kubernetes, mesos, nomad or – although not a dc scheduler – very extensive systemd experience
Secondary Competencies
- Command line fluency
- Code discovery fluency with tools like
greporripgrep - Fluency in git based workflows, commit discipline
- Scripting and programming skills
- Experience with continuous integration tools
- Experience with AWS, Google Compute, or other cloud providers
- Proficient English language and communication skills
- A spleen for statically-typed or functional programming languages
- An even bigger spleen for GitOps
Education / Experience
- Proven years of experience in Build and Release engineering, Linux operational excellence and automation
- We are particularly interested in people with experience of Nix, Open source work and Functional and/or Statically Typed Languages
- You will be someone who works well on your own and with a team
- You value cooperation and collaboration above all, and are not afraid to ask for clarification or help when needed
- You are kind and respectful of others’ opinions and you are open and act with integrity when engaging in academic or technical discussions
