Site Reliability Engineer

Are you interested in building the technical foundation of the worldwide transition to clean energy? Do you enjoy working with a highly motivated and talented team to deliver mission critical software? Voltus is growing our Site Reliability Engineering [or “Platform”] team to help deploy, manage, troubleshoot, and enhance our Platform and tools for its internal and external customers.
As a Site Reliability Engineer you will be responsible for deploying and maintaining our core Platform, which consists of Hashicorp’s Nomad, Consul, and Vault systems in AWS. In addition, you will help manage and maintain our monitoring systems, which currently include Prometheus and Datadog. 
You will build innovative automated solutions and tools to help debug and resolve problems in production and prevent them from recurring. Further, you will proactively seek out system weaknesses and find ways to fix them before they cause production issues using monitoring data, logs, and watching trends.
Voltus is a fully distributed company and this job is remote. You have the flexibility to work from anywhere, but you must overlap with the Eastern Time zone for at least 4 hours of the workday (9am-5pm).

About the Role

• Keep our core Platform (Nomad, Consul, Vault) up and running and performing optimally.
• Work closely with internal partners and teams to ensure that we ship software that meets security, SLA, and performance requirements.
• Write, update, and use documentation, including runbooks/playbooks
• Automate work including infrastructure needs, testing, failover solutions, failure mitigation, and much more
• Debug complex problems across an entire stack and creating solid solutions
• Develop CI/CD processes to improve cadence.

About You

• 5 years experience with software engineering, software development, or system operations.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Know your way around a Unix/Linux shell, can write shell scripts, and understands Linux internals.
• Experience debugging complex problems.
• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale production systems
• Know Python, Java, Go, Rust, or similar.
• Understand networking and messaging, especially between services.
• Have hands-on experience using source control (Git, GitHub) and feature branching strategies.
• Have experience with a variety of open-source databases (MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Cassandra, etc.).
• Intellectually curious and always want to learn more.

Preferred Skills and Attributes

• Experience with DevOps engineering or SRE.
• Experience with the Hashistack (Vault, Consul, Nomad).
• Experience with containers, such as with Docker.
• Experience with monitoring and observability such as with Datadog, Prometheus or similar.
• Build systems such as Make, Bazel, or similar.
• Experience automating infrastructure, testing, and deployments using tools like Ansible, Chef, or Terraform and can explain the Infrastructure as Code paradigm.
• Understands the difference between provisioning and configuration management.

About UsOur mission is to be the Distributed Energy Platform that fulfills the promise of the energy transition. The Voltus platform connects any distributed energy resource (DER) to any energy market across the US and Canada, providing flexibility, reliability, and resilience to the grid while generating revenue for our partners. By partnering with industry leaders and the DER ecosystem, we are building the decarbonized, distributed, decentralized, and digitized energy system of the future.
Voltus is a remote and virtual company, distributed across US, Canada, and abroad with many team members in New York, San Francisco, Boston, Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, DC and other cities.
At Voltus, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer because we recognize that a diverse organization begins with a diverse candidate pool. This means we do not tolerate discrimination of any kind and are committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of your gender identity, race, nationality, religion, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status, or marital status.