Site Reliability Engineering, Sr. Associate
The Engineering Excellence Group drives innovation velocity and enterprise infrastructure automation, which are critical elements of our growth and scaling strategy. This team is chartered to drive significant productivity, robustness, agility, and time-to-market advantage in the creation of Synopsys products and solutions. The group also leads corporate infrastructure transformation as we continue to drive IT operations leadership and invest in the next wave of disruptive technologies.
 Key Roles & ResponsibilitiesDiscover and implement changes to existing IT infrastructure with the focus of improved reliability, performance, and standardization.Collaborate with Engineering and business units to translate customer, business, and technical requirements into SRE practices and enhancements.Ensure efficient resource utilization and continuously improve processes leveraging automation and internal tools resulting in enhanced service delivery, maturity, and scalability.Troubleshoot production issues providing root cause analysis and designing solutions to prevent future occurrences.Monitoring of services and creating intelligent alarming for quicker incident detection and resolution.Participate in off-hours maintenance activities and be part of on-call rotation schedule. Required SkillsExperience with a wide range of infrastructure technologies, such as but not limited to Linux, Windows, High-performance computing, storage platforms, networking, cloud computing, cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, etc.), virtualization, OpenStack, containerization, and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes). Good understanding of IT infrastructure related services and their dependencies required to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations.Experience with the administration, and performance tuning of Linux and Windows OS. Knowledge of service level indicators and objectives, instrumenting software, and building alerts.Good understanding of software engineering fundamentals with experience developing software and in the practice of testing.Passion for tracking down technical root causes of distributed systems, and software.Experience with ITAM, Service MappingKnowledgeable in ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) processes and frameworksAn ideal candidate should be able to develop automated solutions to prevent recurring problems.Possesses the ability and willingness to challenge the status-quo and optimize current processes and procedures. Experience & EducationMasters/bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field of study. Experience in IT infrastructure & operations and SRE practices.Experience in infra-automation tools and frameworks like GitHub, Jenkins, Terraform (IaC), Ansible, Shell scripting. Experience with one or more of Java/Python/Go/NodeJS languages.Knowledge of SDLC, Agile processes and CI/CD tools.Good understanding of cloud, automation, networking and SIEM tools.Excellent verbal and written communication skillsExcellent problem-solving skills and ability to work through issues and challenges.Inclusion and Diversity are important to us. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, military veteran status, or disability.