Senior Site Reliability Engineer

What We Need :

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will be responsible for leading a talented team of SREs / DevOps Engineers across a wide variety of Cloud Services.

He / She will be our leader as we move toward a platform / systems architecture and infrastructure that is highly automated, fully instrumented, self-scaling, self-healing and loosely coupled.

Must be a go-getter with efficient multi-tasking abilities along with efficient people management skills.

What You'll Do :

• Standardize and modernize Amazon EKS platforms & AWS Serverless Suites, including all Cutting-Edge Managed Services from AWS.
• Provide expertise and hands on implementation of large - scale , mission critical Kubernetes workloads with High Resiliency and m ulti -r egion architecture.
• Mentor 2-5 talented S ite Reliability Engineers.
• Champion a ccountability, r esponsibility through a ctions & t houghts.
• Prioritize & r e-align quickly to adapt to a demanding fast paced Shift Left environment.
• Maximize automation to improve speed and quality while relentlessly driving low-value, repetitive work out of our operational activities.
• Work with our application delivery teams to design and build scalable and maintainable solutions for our customers.
• Develop baselines for governance, consumption / cost and performance to ensure that our elastic cloud-based applications operate efficiently, securely and with zero down time.
• Run Reliability Incident management processes along with Root Cause Analysis, developing Runbooks
• Instill Standardization in DevOps processes across a wide range of applications.
• Lead and drive the operational cloud readiness program, ensure services are well understood and the program adapts over time.

What You'll Need :

• 5+ years of h ands- o n experience i n public cloud specifically AWS
• 3+ years of leading SRE / DevOps teams across complex AWS ecosystem.
• Deep understanding of high velocity SDLC best practices along with CI / CD & Application / infrastructure Monitoring practices to operate workloads at high scale.
• Expert p roficiency in Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS CDK , Lambda, API Gateway, Route53, S3, EC2, LoadBalancing , DynamoDB, CloudWatch, IAM, Networking, IOT, SQS, EventBridge etc.
• Adept at solving & troubleshooting High volume Distributed architecture applications running on AWS.
• Deep knowledge of AWS Cost optimization techniques such as Reserved Instances, Spot Instances & Life Cycle Management.
• Proven ability to collaborate and build strong relationships with development teams including Conflict Resolutions.
• Strong software development background including knowledge of microservices architecture along with fluency in JavaScript , TypeScript, or Node.JS or Python.

At least one among the following AWS Certifications

• AWS Solution Architect Associate
• AWS Solution Architect Professional
• AWS DevOps Associate
• AWS DevOps Professional
• Professional Kubernetes Certifications

What You'll Bring :

• Respect for others and a strong belief that others should do this in return
• Demonstrated initiative and achievement-oriented leadership
• Ability to delegate tasks and manage others effectively, especially in times of complexity or conflict.
• Growth mindset and desire for continued knowledge sharing and learning
• Understanding of impact of own work and your team’s outcomes
• Ability to solve technical and operational problems and troubleshoot in a timely manner
• Ability to identify and support new opportunities for continued improvement across business
• Comfort interacting with individuals of all levels
• Effective communication skills and the ability to build team trust
• Ability to influence others to adopt a broader point of view

What You'll Bring :

Respect for others and a strong belief that others should do this in return

Demonstrated initiative and achievement-oriented leadership

Ability to delegate tasks and manage others effectively, especially in times of complexity or conflict

Growth mindset and desire for continued knowledge sharing and learning

Understanding of impact of own work and your team’s outcomes

Business insights that contribute to meeting organizational objectives

Ability to solve technical and operational problems and troubleshoot in a timely manner

Ability to identify and support new opportunities for continued improvement across business

Comfort interacting with individuals of all levels

Effective communication skills and the ability to build team trust

Ability to influence others to adopt a broader point of view

Compensation :

Salary to be determined by multiple factors including but not limited to relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications, and alignment with market data.

$136,000 - $170,000

Location : VIRTUAL CST, TX

VIRTUAL CST, TX

Position Type : Regular

Regular

Time Type : Full time

Full time

Pay Type : Salaried

Salaried

Benefits :

iHeartMedia’s benefits offering is flexible and offers a variety of choices to meet the diverse needs of our changing workforce, including the following :

Employer sponsored medical, dental and vision with a variety of coverage options

Company provided and supplemental life insurance

Paid vacation and sick time

Paid company holidays, including a floating holiday that enable our employees to celebrate the holiday of their choosing

A Spirit day to encourage and allow our employees to more easily volunteer in their community

A 401K plan

Employee Assistance Program (EAP) at no cost services include telephonic counseling sessions, consultation on legal and financial matters, emotional well-being, family and caregiving

A range of additional voluntary programs, such as spending accounts, student loan refinancing, accident insurance and more!

We are accepting applications for this role on an ongoing basis.