Golang Job: Site Reliability Engineer - Opportunity for Workin

The Elevator Pitch: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?

VMware's Cross-Cloud SaaS Platform team provides the public cloud infrastructure and Managed Kubernetes clusters that host all of VMware's SaaS products consumed by our customers. The platform is globally distributed and built using a combination of industry-standard open-source solutions and VMware Products. We host VMware's most significant SaaS products in production, including VMware Cloud on AWS, CarbonBlack, Networking (NSBU) and Cloud Management Business Unit (CMBU) services. The Site Reliability Engineering team is responsible for ensuring the uptime and reliability of our Managed Platform and providing value add services to our customers, internal VMware engineering teams. We get to play with the latest cloud-native technologies to support the business, and inclusivity is critical where everyone can have a voice and make a difference. You will be part of a vital team providing the platform integral to VMware's SaaS transformation; we are essential in increasing VMware's Annual Revenue Recognition (ARR) by ensuring our services are stable and secure. We are a passionate, hard-working, friendly, supportive, culturally diverse global team.

Success in the Role: What are the performance goals over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?
You will assist the team in continuing to ensure that our uptime and reliability are aligned with the defined SLOs. Being able to design solutions, automate everything, reduce toil, and be a fantastic collaborator working well in a globally distributed team. Experience in managing and automating Public Cloud (AWS/GCP/AZURE) Infrastructure and Kubernetes is required. Being inquisitive and determined to get to the root cause of a problem ensuring that we don't see repetitive issues, or better yet, have the foresight to address them before they occur. Some critical areas of focus will be assisting with our Observability stack, such as logging, metrics, tracing and dashboards.

We have three functional pillars within the Platform Team:

Managed Platform - Deploy, manage and support the uptime and reliability of our SaaS platform, including our public cloud configurations, 10's of thousands of pods running on hundreds of Kubernetes clusters.
Managed Services - Provide value-add cloud-native services that run on Kubernetes. The team currently supports VMware's Managed Kafka, Observability stacks, logging services, secrets management and more! Having Golang experience is ideal in the development of Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions.
Security & Compliance - The platform is certified in FedRAMP High, PCI, HIPAA, SOC2 and more. We are constantly innovating, building new services and automating to secure our platform and increase our security posture with least privilege principles and zero trust.

What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?
The hiring manager for is Tom O' Rourke. Tom has been at VMware for 10 years and is our Director of Engineering for the Cross-Cloud SaaS Platform team. The team is distributed globally and follows dynamic, open culture at work and encourages to learn from each other, teach others and grow along with others being collaborative and courteous.

Where is this role located?
This role is open to fully remote and can be done anywhere in Ireland. If you live in the surrounding area of Dublin, you will have the option to work from the office partly or fully if you wish to do so.

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 classes

This position is eligible for VMware Ireland ERP campaign

Category : Engineering and Technology
Subcategory: Site Reliability
Experience: Business Leadership
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Posted Date: 2022-09-22

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