Guidewire, a renowned company in the tech industry, is currently seeking candidates for the position of Senior Site Reliability Engineer. To qualify for this role, applicants should possess a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field, underscoring Guidewire’s commitment to academic excellence in hiring. Notably, this opportunity is open to freshers, signaling Guidewire’s dedication to providing entry points for talented individuals at the outset of their careers. The job is situated in Bangalore, a thriving hub of technological innovation in India.
Company Name: Guidewire
Job Role: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Education Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.
Experience Required: Freshers
Job Location: Bangalore
Role and Responsibilities:
- Take a purist SRE approach to shared multi-tenant infrastructure for a resilient SaaS microservice-based containerized systems in addition to customer-centric application environments.
- Oversee and automate the team’s growing presence in AWS.
- Contribute to core infrastructure systems development with features, bug fixes, reliability improvements, etc.
- Platform reliability engineering of a complex single sign-on SAML/OAuth-based central authentication platform.
- Creatively build and develop tooling to aid in driving 24x7x365 follow-the-sun operations of critical production systems.
- Automate deployment tasks for core product and infrastructure tools and maintain automation infrastructure.
- Create system documentation and training materials to empower and educate our fellow team members.
- Build and maintain observability tooling, metrics, and dashboarding for a global platform product infrastructure.
- Improve our incident management lifecycle to identify, mitigate, and learn from reliability risks and issues.
- Enhance platform observability with helping create a self-healing approach to platform reliability.
- Collaborate with engineering teams, providing product feedback and where necessary contribute code to the product.
Required Skills and Qualification:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.
- Software engineering and task automation skills with Bash, Python, and/or Go are a must.
- Familiarity with the Agile software development lifecycle.
- Deep background with Linux systems and engineering.
- Highly experienced with engineering and automating on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Experience supporting web applications running on Java / Apache / Tomcat in a live production environment.
- Prior experience with IaC tools like Terraform/Terragrunt/Terraspace.
- Prior experience with devops/gitops tools (Git, Bitbucket, Flux CD, Teamcity) for gate promotions.
- Production-At-Scale support background in a heavily microservice-based world.
- Hands-on engineering and ops expertise in containerization (Docker, Helm, Kubernetes/EKS, CNI and Ingress networking).
- Strong understanding of Single-Sign On, SAML, OAuth (Bonus if hands-on experience with Okta).
- Seasoned expertise around x.509 certificate technology and basic concepts of encryption.
- Experience working with Relational Databases such as Aurora Postgres and/or Oracle RDS.
- Advanced exposure to application development, web UI (design and development), JSON, application architecture.
- Experience strongly utilizing observability tools (logging/APM) like Datadog, CloudWatch, and PagerDuty.
- Familiarity with event store/stream-processing technologies like Kafka or AWS SQS.
- Understanding of Open Application Model systems such as KubeVela or Crossplane.
