Req ID: 28256BR
bswift,a leader in cloud-based technology and services for employee benefits and health exchanges, is currently seeking anJunior Site Reliability Engineerto become an active member of a Systems Engineering team that loves to automate, secure, and learn about any technology it can get its hands on! Learn how to debug .NET website performance issues on high performance Windows Server 2012 infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
* Investigate and remediate website performance issues across many different environments (IIS Web Farms, Microsoft SQL 2014, F5 Load Balancers, Amazon CloudFront)
* Respond to production performance incidents using best in class Application Performance Management tools (AppDynamics, ThousandEyes, Idera SQL Diagnostic Monitor)
* Prototype new application performance management technology Collaborate with developers, quality assurance, database administrators, and product management to ensure the performance issues you find are remediated
* Assist in implementing best practices for change control, problem, incident, and release management (ITIL)
* Participate in a 24/7 on call rotation with other team members for urgent incident response (PagerDuty)
* Get trained on:
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* AppDynamics
* F5 Big IP Load Balancers
* Amazon CloudFront
* Idera SQL Diagnostic Monitor
* ThousandEyes
* Puppet
* PowerShell Desired State Configuration
* Write manual scripts to monitor environment changes (PowerShell Desired State Configuration, Puppet, Github)
* Assist with application load testing and the monitoring of infrastructure while under load (WebLoad, AppDynamics, perfmon)
Desired Experience / Skills:
* Exposure to the .NET programming language or debugging compiled .NET code (C#, Visual Basic)
* Basic scripting ability (PowerShell/VBScript/Bash or other language)
* 1+ years of experience with Windows Server 2008 or higher
* 1+ years of experience installing/maintaining a web server (IIS/Apache/Tomcat/etc.)
* 1+ years of experience setting up and managing Microsoft SQL Server Experience communicating technical material to both technical and non-technical client audiences in verbal, written, and presentation form.
* Experience managing crisis situations to resolution, and reporting on cause, action, results, and future mitigation plans
* Experience deploying applications to Microsoft IIS Server Experience with tools like Fiddler or FireBug
* Any exposure to hardening software, network, or operating system environments
* Any exposure to managing (virtual or physical) switches, firewalls, load balancers, etc.
* A Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, MIS, or a related field is strongly
preferred.
* Equivalent work experience and/or certificate program participation will be considered on
an individual basis.
Job Function: Interim - Acquisition