Site Reliability Engineer

The Solutions Infrastructure team is a site reliability engineering team to develop solutions using satellite data and machine learning/image processing algorithms. We are looking for a SRE to design, develop and maintain infrastructure for our data pipeline and other solutions. Japanese nationals are required for this position due to the nature of some projects.

Responsibility

• The Solutions Development Department at Synspective is responsible for developing models and algorithms which produce insights using multiple sources of data, including our own satellite data. To do this, we develop an analytics platform to produce geoscience insights efficiently and easily

• Design and develop infrastructure for Synspective's software solutions ensuring scalability, reliability, and security

• Develop and maintain a monitoring mechanism for our solutions

• Optimize Cloud usage costs and alerts

• Maintain infrastructure for data processing pipelines

• Design and implement infrastructure for new data processing

Details of work

• Develop and drive deployment and security of our infrastructure environments

• Experiment and develop a Continuous Deployment system

• Develop a policy and toolchain to manage user managed VMs.

Selling points of this role

• Learn and apply cloud infrastructure as it applies to satellite data and software.

• Be part of a venture to change the world through using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data

• Work with a group of driven engineers across multiple disciplines to achieve our goal of a learning world.

• Work with a variety of people from diverse backgrounds

• 3+ years of experience as an SRE/DevOps

• Experience building customer-facing cloud-native systems on one of the major cloud providers using Kubernetes and Docker

• Experience with Infrastructure as a code tools like Terraform, Opentofu, etc

• Good knowledge and experience with computer networking, and SSL.

• Experience in SLA/SLO definition and implementation monitoring SLI

• Experience with CI/CD tools and processes (For example Jenkins, Circle CI, Cloud Deploy, Github Actions, or any continuous deployment system).

• Experience working with Linux based systems

• Experience in software development for internal use (requirement gathering, designing, programming and maintenance) - preferred languages: python and golang

• Experience in working in a team loosely following agile methodology

• Ability to exchange requirements and align with non-SRE teams

• Ability to communicate in Japanese and willing to communicate in English

Preferred qualifications

• Experience building infrastructure using Terraform

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform

• Grafana, Prometheus, LOKI stack experience is a plus

• Experience in handling GIS/Map data and services

• Experience with python scripting and dependency management.