Senior Member of Technical Staff - SDET/SRE - Opportunity for Working Remotely

Company: VMware
Location: Indianapolis
Posted on: November 26, 2022

Job Description:

Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?Are you passionate about quality, availability and performance? Do you strive for maximum efficiency in everything you do, no matter how trivial it seems to others? Do you like solving hard problems, and then automating them away? If you answered yes to all of these questions then you may be the person we are looking for.The Skyline Site Reliability Engineering team brings a software engineering perspective to delivering quality operations at scale, driving automation in every aspect of the job. We collaborate with Engineering and Operations teams, as equals, to provide optimal production services to our customers. We believe that Engineering teams should be able to deploy whatever, whenever with confidence, via lightweight processes with minimal barriers.You will be a part of a motivated and talented team of Engineers and work with modern cloud, container and monitoring technologies, solve challenging problems and help build efficient platforms for managing large volumes of data. You will delight customers by providing reliable, performant Skyline services and contribute to shaping the Site Reliability functions for Skyline Product.Success in the Role: What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?

• Within the first 30 days, you will
• Develop automation for optimizing testing cycles, and iteratively create functionality using agile methodology.
• Work with Skyline SRE, Developers, IT & Production Engineering teams and familiarize yourself with Skyline deployment design and the internal processes for CICD, Monitoring and Incident Management.
• Within the first 90 days, you will
• Become competent in setting up CICD pipelines, Monitoring and Alerting, Load testing and support Incident Management
• Deliver best Product Quality code and function by building automation frameworks, integration and functional tests.
• Develop customer-centric tests to ensure software quality meets the real-world usage scenarios.
• Within the first 180 days, you will
• Lead troubleshooting sessions, participate in Incident Post Mortems, contribute to Infosec & Compliance activities, independently perform Load testing on Skyline Services, design and setup new pipelines and build automation tools.
• Develop modular software that can be shared across multiple components, both through contribution to common libraries and RESTful services.
• Within the first 360 days, you will
• Take ownership of SRE activities - Monitoring, Load Testing, CICD Pipeline build, Capacity planning and Infosec activities for a feature of but not limited to Skyline.
• Own quality, scalability and stability of created code. Innovate to build new testing strategies for delivering quality software.The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?
  • Ensure our product meets the quality, availability and performance goals by developing tools, runbooks, automatic remediation and solid failover strategies.
  • Build code and technologies for Enterprise applications around Product Quality (functional, integration) - both Manual and Automation, with UI and API automation tools like Protractor, Postman, Appium, RestAssured etc.
  • Integrate your test suites with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipelines, developing, automating, and deploying code using GitLab/GitHub, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS or Cloud Foundry.
  • Work across teams to understand test data, functional, and integration testing requirements for ensuring it is available in all relevant environments for delivering the quality product
  • Be responsible for planning the quality development, and execution for the product releases
  • Work with Kubernetes, AWS, Helm charts and Jenkins.
  • Setup, troubleshoot & optimize CICD pipelines to make them reliable, secure and performant.
  • Perform load testing for each release of Skyline
  • Bring in innovative ideas and look for opportunities to improve engineering processes
  • Ensure that production SLAs are defined, measured, monitored and maintained
  • Evaluate, build and modify automation for deploying and operating production services
  • Participate/Lead Post Mortems for incidents
  • Participate in on-call rotation.
  • Mentor other team members.What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?The hiring manager for this position is Ashwin Subandh, Manager Skyline. He has 20+ years of industry experience in a variety of technical and leadership roles. He believes in bringing out the best in people by giving them the right opportunities and creating a safe environment for them.The Skyline team is located in US, Bulgaria and India. They follow and open culture that encourages to learn and grow together, communicate in a collaborative and courteous manner and bring in innovative ideas and solutions to problems.Where is this role located?Flexible: The role is considered flexible and will be a mix of working from a local VMware office and remote depending on your preferences and the arrangements determined with your future manager. You will be expected to live within a reasonable commute of the office.For New York City based candidates the hiring range for this position is typically $140,000 -$252,000. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. Bonus, commission, and/or equity may be eligible for this position. Additional benefits for this position can be found at https://benefits.vmware.com/ .What are the benefits and perks of working at VMware?You and your loved ones will be supported with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. Below are some highlights, or you can view the complete benefits package by visiting www.benefits.vmware.com.
    • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
    • Medical Coverage, Retirement, and Parental Leave Plans for All Family Types
    • Generous Time Off Programs
    • 40 hours of paid time to volunteer in your community
    • Rethink's Neurodiversity program to support parents raising children with learning or behavior challenges, or developmental disabilities
    • Financial contributions to your ongoing development (conference participation, trainings, course work, etc.)
    • Wellness reimbursement and online fitness and wellbeing classesThis job may require the candidate to travel and/or work from a facility that requires full vaccination prior to entry.Category : Engineering and TechnologySubcategory: Software EngineeringExperience: Manager and ProfessionalFull Time/ Part Time: Full TimePosted Date: 2022-11-01Cloud Management: VMwares Cloud Management team delivers vRealize Suite, a solution thats essential to accelerating our customers journey to digital transformation. Its our market-leading, state-of-the-art cloud management platform designed to deliver and manage IT services across private, public, and hybrid clouds. VRealizeSuite is an integrated, comprehensive solution that meets the challenge of managing a cloud infrastructure from a single pane of glass. Were changing the way users design, build, view, and manage public and private clouds,and enabling them to run with optimal performance, insightful analytics and automated delivery. Join our user-focusedteam of software engineers, data scientists, web designers, product managers, and marketers. Youll gain valuable experience in the fast-growing field of cloud infrastructure management from a pioneer and industry leader.VMware Company Overview: At VMware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlessly. Our cloud, mobility, and security software form a flexible, consistent digital foundation for securely delivering the apps, services and experiences that are transforming business innovation around the globe. At the core of what we do are our people who deeply value execution, passion, integrity, customers, and community. Shape whats possible today at http://careers.vmware.com.Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: VMware is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: VMware is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at VMware are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. VMware will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. VMware encourages applicants of all ages. Vmware will provide reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law.

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