Site Reliability Engineer

About the role:

We are currently looking for highly motivated SRE Engineer with systems knowledge to work in the Production Engineering / DevOps group. This position will act as a primary technical liaison and is responsible for delivery of On-Prem and AWS / Cloud infrastructure solutions within the PayTV services team. This position will also work closely with other engineering development teams to design, build and operate consistent and repeatable code and server deployments. In this Role we are responsible for providing a stable, reliable, scalable, and observable infrastructure that is used for Deployment, Upgrade, System maintenance. An ideal candidate will have a strong operations background as well as some development experience. Candidates for this position must be able to, from day one, roll up their sleeves and hit the ground running, and bring their experience to the team to make the infrastructure deployments and operations much smoother. Most importantly, the right individual will be with a positive, “can-do” attitude and a passion for delivering technical solutions in a fast-paced environment.

Here's what you get to do:

•  Partner with Production Engineering/TechOps engineers to own and manage 24/7 operation of Pay TV systems and the larger Xperi family according to Service Level Agreement.
•  Provide architecture and technical leadership of the overall Production Engineering infrastructure/observability & tooling
•  Own and maintain the development of Config as Code (CI/CD pipeline) for production and testing environments
•  Support and own efforts to achieve automation, quality, stability, security, resiliency and high availability goals of the systems.
•  Develop a roadmap to optimize the operations together with key stakeholders
•  Collaborate with development engineering teams to drive the development of tools and methods to monitor system health, data analysis for identifying potential issues, seamless software updates, automation related to error detection and mitigation, and cost monitoring
•  Build trusting relationships with work partners across the organization, especially with development engineering teams for ideation and implementation of continuous improvement to the service
•  Own and provide clear and timely updates and status of the service operation and reliability to key stakeholders and leadership
•  Guide and mentor other Production Engineering Engineers
•  Manage very large Scale Cloud and on prem System Deployment, Config change, Monitoring, Trouble shooting.

Who we are looking for:

We seek a talented and experienced Production Engineer to join a growing team building out a cloud services platform at Xperi. You will join a team of Production Engineers who will be responsible for managing the production system of our SaaS infrastructure for media processing and delivery systems.

• Minimum of 5 years+ of individual contributor
• Demonstrable experience with both Agile and waterfall engineering processes.
• Experience with delivering, integrating, and deploying web services and working with partners and customers to deliver innovative solutions.
• Experience with operational aspects of On-Premise and Public Cloud deployments
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• BE/BTech/Masters in CS/CE/EE or equivalent. 

 Top 4 primary skills and expertise level requirement (1 to 5; 5 being expert)

Config as Code/CICD - 5

 Docker, Kubernetes, terraform - 5

 Linux/scripting – 5

Serverless Cloud Technolgies- 5

Large Scale Vertical and Horizontal Vertical Scalling

 Supporting Tools Used

•  Git
•  Service Now
•  JIRA
•  Confluence
•  Jenkins
•  mySQL
•  Tomcat
•  JVM
•  Big Panda
•  Monitoring Tools hands on.
•  Prometheus
•  Kafka
•  Splunk
•  Python
•  Terraform
•  Ansible
•  Zoom
•  Grafana
•  Pager Duty
•  Any Scripting Language(Shell script/Python)

Life @ Xperi:

At Xperi, we value People, Customers, Performance and Innovation. We are dedicated to creating a workplace where all employees have a voice and sense of belonging, feel safe and valued, and are acknowledged for how their unique differences contribute to organizational culture and business outcomes. 

Our employees and their families are important to us, and our comprehensive pay, stock and benefits programs reflect that. Xperi supports personal well-being, builds financial security and enables employees to share in our collective success. 

Rewards include:

• Competitive compensation (salary, equity and bonuses) and comprehensive benefits designed to foster work-life balance, care for your health, protect your finances and help you save and invest for the future.
• Generous paid time away from work, including flexible time off, holidays and sick time, health and wellness initiatives, and a charitable match program to help you give back to your community.
• Great perks, which vary by location and can be site-specific: employee discounts, transportation reimbursements, subsidized cafes and fitness facilities.
• A flexible, hybrid work environment combining the best of in-office collaboration and community-building along with the benefits of working from home.