Senior Site Reliability Engineer (IaaS)

About the role

Tencent Cloud is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (IaaS) to join its Cloud & Smart Industries Group. The role focuses on optimizing and upgrading cloud product architecture and operations, ensuring the stability and reliability of Tencent Cloud's PaaS products through monitoring, troubleshooting and automation initiatives.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor and maintain Tencent Cloud's IaaS products, resolve technical issues and mitigate risks across different technical scenarios.
• Drive optimization and upgrades of product architecture and operations based on a deep understanding of cloud architecture and technical principles.
• Promote automated operations, high-availability component construction and high-availability drills to improve efficiency.
• Use tools and platforms such as CI/CD, intelligence and data to raise the operations team's efficiency, cut operational costs and avoid repetitive work.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science or a related field.
• Over 5 years of experience in development, architecture design and system operations, preferably in large-scale distributed systems in the cloud.
• Experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP or Tencent Cloud; cloud certification and cloud operations experience preferred.
• Excellent written and spoken English; Chinese Mandarin is required because about 50% of the role involves collaboration with China headquarters.

Required skills

• Distributed systems knowledge and open-source components such as CDN, Nginx, microservices, Kubernetes, Redis, Kafka, MySQL and HBase.
• One or more programming languages such as Java, Go, Shell and Python scripting.
• Strong Linux, TCP/IP and troubleshooting skills.
• Containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes operations and troubleshooting.
• MySQL or another database, NoSQL databases and caching databases like Redis.
• Technical documentation and risk awareness.