Associate Software/Site-Reliability Engineer

Hi, I’m David Hayden, Manager of Engineering at Puppet,

I’m looking for an Associate Software/Site-Reliability Engineer to join our Development Infrastructure and Operations (DIO) team.  We design, develop and improve test automation and release tooling that is innovative, robust, and efficient, improving the workflow of developers and release of Puppet’s products; we also run and improve the core computing infrastructure that powers everything we do at Puppet.

In addition to supporting Puppet’s foundation, we also act as customer zero! We get to use the latest and greatest Puppet technology before anyone else, as well as provide valuable insights to our development team about the experience. 

DIO manages the common infrastructure used by our engineering department. We are a team of generalists with backgrounds ranging from developer to traditional sysadmin to data center operations to physiology. We leverage our varied experiences to tackle the diverse needs of our internal customers. While we have many of the responsibilities of a traditional ops team, we often find ways out of those problems through software engineering and automation.

As an Engineer in DIO at Puppet, you will:

• Contribute to improving existing testing tools, and engage with quality, release, and system operation engineers on integrating with CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Delivery) systems, and optimizing automation workflows.
• Use the latest pre-release version of Puppet Enterprise, CD4PE, Nebula, Remediate…  to manage our infrastructure, providing critical feedback to the development teams, making us “customer zero,” providing influential and valuable insight about our current and future products. 
• Tackle complex and varied issues on systems ranging from the archaic to cutting-edge.
• Work closely with internal customers, such as the teams responsible for building and testing our products.
• Work with physical, virtual, and containerized workloads.
• Spend much of your time at a command line.
• Become intimately familiar with a world that revolves around git.

Sounds like a lot? Fortunately, you will be surrounded by a collaborative team with expertise in all these areas.

Who are you?

• You love working with the very latest version of tools and giving feedback.
• You enjoy working closely with your team and your customers. You want to see your team and customers succeed, and you want to be a big part of that. 
• You're hungry to learn new things. You're interested in learning about technologies both new and old, and helping your team learn about those technologies as well.
• You love to establish an understanding of complex systems, tear them apart, and put them back together again, better than before.
• You can't stand to let a problem fester. When you see a bug your first instinct is to fix it. Unreliable infrastructure bothers you, and you want to find ways to shore it up or replace it.
• You like solving problems practically. Sometimes it makes sense to build something new. A lot of times it makes sense to make it good enough. Once in a while you just have to leave a comment apologizing to future SREs.
• You are a proactive communicator. You strive to be articulate and empathetic in your interactions and believe in “working out loud” to share work early and helpfully.

What valuable experience and skills will you bring to the table?

• You are proficient at coding in Java, Python, Ruby, C++, C# or a similar language
• You’ve used version control before
• Ability to identify and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of existing tooling and potential alternative solutions or approaches to problems
• Basic understanding of XML, JSON, SQL
• You have a desire to interact closely with people throughout the company
• You can write clearly about work scope and status
• You can clearly communicate technical concepts and reasoning to both technical and non-technical audiences

Bonus, but not required (shout about it in your application if you have experience)

• Expertise with a configuration management system, preferably Puppet
• Ability to design the configuration of a service for maximum reusability
• Understanding of computing security practices, both technical and social
• Ability to work closely with developers to understand application architecture and optimize applications for operational efficiency
• Experience administering Linux, AIX, Solaris, macOS, or Windows
• Experience building and / or managing containers
• Experience with VMware, Nutanix, Kubernetes, AWS, GCE, Azure, or similar
• Experience with monitoring
• Experience working in a datacenter

We are hiring at various experience levels and we’re particularly interested in having a diverse team with a broad set of skills and viewpoints. If this seems like your dream job, but you’re not sure if you qualify, apply anyway!

*Visa Sponsorship

Please note, this position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

About Puppet

Puppet’s core mission is to eliminate soul crushing work. We created the industry standard for managing infrastructure as code. And we didn’t stop there—our product portfolio has grown to help organizations automate across their entire software delivery lifecycle. With more than two-thirds of Fortune 100 companies using Puppet’s open source or commercial products, our code is helping power thousands of organizations across the world.

As the industry leader in DevOps solutions, we realize that our success is a collective effort; all made possible by the incredible people working here, our customers, partners, and Puppet community. Our culture is built on positivity, diversity, inclusivity and support—and we seek people who are resilient, entrepreneurial-minded, team players who continually strive to be incrementally better every single day. In our work together we aim to be curious, accountable, empathetic and, above all, collaborative. If this sounds like the environment you’d thrive in, why not say hello?

Learn more about Puppet by checking out the values we live by and the awesome benefits and perks we offer employees!

Puppet is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, ancestry, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.

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