Senior Site Reliability Engineer II - Cost Optimization Focus

Senior Site Reliability Engineer 2- Cost Optimization Focus

Location

India, Remote

Summary of role

Own availability, the most important product feature, by continually striving for sustained operational excellence of Sumo’s planet-scale observability and security products.  Work alongside your global SRE team, partnering with our FinOps team, executing on projects to monitor, alert, and optimize cost efficiency.  Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Engineering and Finance, to ensure that every dollar spent on our cloud infrastructure delivers as much value to the company as possible. In this role, you will play a crucial role in developing data models for cost analysis and profitability forecasting, as well as driving cross-team cost-saving projects with your leadership and technical expertise. 

Responsibilities

• Support the engineering teams within your product area by maintaining and executing a reliability roadmap of opportunities for improvement for reliability, maintainability, security, efficiency, and velocity - and help realizing those opportunities that drive efficiency and reduce costs.
• Lead initiatives to implement cost-saving projects, leveraging data insights and technical expertise
• Develop and maintain data models and reporting for Sumo Logic cost and profitability, such as unit economics or cost per customer
• Ensure engineering teams have near-real-time visibility into their cloud spend and can be held accountable for it, by providing them with cost dashboards, alerts and insights
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for cost optimization and efficiency improvements 
• Engage in capacity planning activities by designing a resource reservation strategy and participate in commitment purchases (CSP, RI etc.)
• Drive continuous improvement and operational excellence for our FinOps tools
• Participate in on-call rotations to understand operations workload so you can continually work to improve the on-call experience and reduce operational workload for running microservices and related components.
• Complete projects to optimize and tune on-call experience for your engineering teams.
• Write code and automation to reduce operational workload, increase efficiency, improve security posture, eliminate toil, and enable Sumo’s developers to deliver features more rapidly.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability, velocity, and cost efficiency.
• Facilitate blame-free root cause analysis meetings for incidents to learn and drive improvement
• Participate in and continually improve our global IRC (incident response coordination) for all products.
• Drive root cause identification and issue resolution with the teams.
• Work inside of a fast-paced iterative environment.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Understand and apply modern approaches to cloud-native software financial operations (finOps)
• Experience monitoring, alerting, and forecasting cloud spend.
• Cloud native application development and operations experience leveraging best practices 
• Strong debugging and trouble-shooting skills across the entire technology stack
• Deep understanding of AWS Networking, Compute, Storage, and managed services.
• Competency with modern CI/CD tooling like Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible & Jenkins
• Experience with full life cycle support of services, from creation to production support
• Versed in Infrastructure as Code practices using technologies like Terraform or Cloud Formation
• Ability to author production ready code in at least one the following: Java, Scala or Go.
• Experience with Linux systems and at home on the command line
• Experienced with agile frameworks, such as Scrum and Kanban, and how to operate within these frameworks to continually deliver value.
• Flexible and willing to step into new roles and responsibilities
• Willingness to learn and use Sumo Logic products for solving reliability and security issues
• Bachelor’s or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or another scientific or technical discipline
• 6-8 years of industry experience.

Desirable Skills

• Experience using Sumo Logic products or other observability products for reliability and security
• Experienced with planet scale product development
• Running and operating SaaS products on AWS Cloud with expert level proficiency
• 1+ years of experience with cloud financial management or FinOps framework
• Expert level experience in one or more of: Java, Go, Scala, or Python
• Expert level experience in one or more of: Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes
• Extensive experience running and tuning JVM workloads at scale

About Us

Sumo Logic, Inc. empowers the people who power modern, digital business. Sumo Logic enables customers to deliver reliable and secure cloud-native applications through its Sumo Logic SaaS Analytics Log Platform, which helps practitioners and developers ensure application reliability, secure and protect against modern security threats, and gain insights into their cloud infrastructures. Customers worldwide rely on Sumo Logic to get powerful real-time analytics and insights across observability and security solutions for their cloud-native applications. For more information, visit www.sumologic.com.

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