We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to support our team responsible for building, managing, maintaining, deploying, and securing mission-critical services to make the Internet work.  We prize engineering professionals who are equipped with great technical skills and attitudes that motivate those around them.  We seek individuals with a sense of purpose and for whom detail and craftsmanship are of their essence; individuals that are curious, demonstrate initiative, and love solving problems.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in technical designs for products migrating to a shared Kubernetes environment
• Installation, configuration, and maintenance of physical hosts used to support production and non-production applications
• Development of deployment automation using Ansible
• Orchestration of Kubernetes workloads
• Coordination with other technical staff to deploy systems and software
• Performance of operational support functions, including problem isolation and resolution
• Documentation of processes, procedures, configurations, and deployment plans
• Provide critical technical leadership in Kubernetes environments (on-prem and AWS)
• Regularly reporting progress to management
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation with other team members
• Work with software developers to plan and deploy services and software

Our ideal candidate will have excellent technical skills, excellent troubleshooting instincts, curiosity about new technologies, and strong investment in maintaining secure and available services.  The team is responsible for critical internet services and our expectation is that everyone contributes to the team in keeping these systems up and running.  

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 8+ years of experience deploying and operating mission-critical systems
• Excellent understanding of Linux configuration and administration
• Strong automation experience - Not just developing automation, but knowing why we automate and what to automate
• Understanding of physical servers and the demands of maintaining them
• Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code
• Strong understanding of and production experience with Kubernetes workloads
• Strong written and verbal communication skills – able to clearly and succinctly describe complex issues
• Familiarity with networking protocols and systems

Required Skills, Experience, and Attributes:

• Experience with RHEL 8/9
• Experience with SELinux
• Experience with IBM POWER hardware and AIX operating systems
• Experience with ServiceNow
• Experience with a high-level scripting language such as Python
• Experience with network troubleshooting using such tools as ping, traceroute and dig
• Deployment automation experience using tools such as Ansible
• Experience working with teams using Kanban and/or Scrum a plus
• Experience with Docker in a production environment
• Experience with OpenStack in a production environment
• Experience with Unix-like systems in a large-scale environment
• Experience using Jenkins in a continuous delivery and integration environment

This position is based in our Reston, VA office and offers a hybrid work schedule.

The pay range is $135,800 - $183,800.

The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is noted above, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience. Verisign offers a discretionary bonus which is based on individual and company performance, and certain roles may be eligible for discretionary stock awards.