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A Lot About You
Yahoo Data Production Engineering team is seeking experienced DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure engineers with expertise in GCP (or AWS). If you are passionate about working in a dynamic environment and have the required skills, we would love to have you on board with us. Apply now to join our team!
We are looking for Production Engineers (SREs/DevOps) who are problem solvers at heart, with solid ability to dig into code and own the reliability domain. As a member of the PE team, you will work with your developer partners and implement operability improvements, security, infrastructure
Responsibilities:
Lead initiatives to enhance and optimize existing cloud infrastructure, drive improvements in scalability, efficiency, and resilience, and oversee large-scale projects related to cloud platforms, automation, and performance optimization.
Develop and optimize tools for infrastructure management and automation on cloud platforms, applying Software Engineering Reliability (SRE) principles to write high-quality, maintainable code in languages such as Python, JavaScript, and GoLang.
Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate SRE principles into the product lifecycle, ensuring improved site reliability and product functionality across cloud platforms.
Develop and implement automation strategies across cloud/on-prem environments to enhance system deployment, monitoring, and operational efficiency. This includes designing and managing CI/CD pipelines and utilizing infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation.
Maintain and support production systems and associated infrastructure, ensuring their availability, performance, and scalability through continuous monitoring and automation.
Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand product and technical roadmaps, identifying potential impacts on system operability and proposing proactive solutions for Cloud environments
Foster cross-functional collaboration between development, infrastructure, and operations teams to improve the overall performance and reliability of services on cloud.
Minimum Qualifications
BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent degree
A minimum of 2+ years of industry experience in site reliability engineering, system engineer, or a related role, ideally in large-scale environments, with a focus on supporting 24x7 highly-available systems.
Familiarity & working experience with Kubernetes and container-based orchestration
Intermediate level of coding expertise in one or more language including Nodejs, Python, or Go
Experience working with IaC (eg. Terraform, Ansible)
Experience with using Git to manage code
Experience with building CI/CD pipelines
Good knowledge of TCP/IP and networking
Familiarity with Observability tools, metric design and implementation
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in designing and optimizing GCP Dataproc, Composer (Airflow, EMR on AWS) and bigquery slot management for big-data pipeline orchestration
Experience in designing, managing large scale infrastructure in either AWS EKS, AWS Open search, OR GCP GKE, GCP Observability/Monitoring and with multi zone, multi region deployments
Deep understanding of UNIX/Linux system internals and tools for troubleshooting application stack dumps and networking
Experience working with GitHub Actions
Experience with storage solutions like REDIS, DynamoDB
Some experience with the Hadoop ecosystem comprising Oozie, Pig, Spark etc
Prior experience in technical operations and exposure to tools/product development.
Familiarity with observability tools & best practices and hands-on experience with applications like Chronosphere, Splunk, OpenSearch, GCP Observability Suite, Grafana & OTEL
Important notes for your attention
Applications:
All applicants must apply for Yahoo openings direct with Yahoo. We do not authorize any external agencies in India to handle candidates’ applications. No agency nor individual may charge candidates for any efforts they make on an applicant’s behalf in the hiring process.
Our internal recruiters will reach out to you directly to discuss the next steps if we determine that the role is a good fit for you. Selected candidates will go through formal interviews and assessments arranged by Yahoo direct.
Offer Distributions:
Our electronic offer letter and documents will be issued through our system for e-signatures, not via individual emails.
Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements.
If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.
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