Engineering -SRE/Devops Professional
About Tekion:
Job Summary:
We are looking for an energetic SRE to join our Infrastructure team! We are on a mission to build a world-class observability platform. If you love digging into data, automating boring tasks, and making systems "talk" to us through metrics and traces, we want to meet you. You wont just be watching screens; you will be building the tools that keep our platform reliable and helping our developers sleep better at night.
Responsibilities
- Driving OpenTelemetry Adoption: You will help us migrate from legacy agents (like Filebeat) to the OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector. You ll tackle cool challenges like standardizing log formats and implementing tail-based sampling.
- Kubernetes Automation: Work on creating standardized base images with pre-configured OTel agents to make life easier for our developers.
- Taming the Data: Help us solve "High Cardinality" issues. You ll refine our metric ingestion strategies to ensure we are storing useful data without exploding our storage costs.
- Tooling & Dashboards: Build actionable dashboards and alerts in New Relic, Observe, and Grafana. You ll help ensure our alerts actually mean something (reducing noise!).
- Incident Response: Participate in the on-call rotation using tools like Pagerduty to detect and resolve issues fast.
- Coding & Scripting: Use Python, Go, or Bash to automate manual operational tasks
Qualifications:
- Experience: 6+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Software Engineering.
- Kubernetes Pro: You know your way around K8s clusters, pods, and deployments. Prometheus/Grafana, or ELK, Datadog).
- Observability Obsessed: Experience with at least one major tool (New Relic,
- Cloud Native: Familiarity with public clouds (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Coding Skills: Comfortable writing scripts in Python, Go, or Java.
- Curious Mindset: You ask "why" when a system breaks and "how" we can prevent it next time.
Perks and Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Generous stock options
- Medical Insurance coverage
- Work with some of the brightest minds from Silicon Valley s most dominant and successful companies
