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Lead Software Reliability Engineer
RE Partners Consulting LLC
Mississauga, CAN
Full Time, Contract
Mid · 3+ years experience
Hybrid
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Test-Driven Development (TDD)JavaNPMSpringRenovateLiquibase
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Lead Software Reliability Engineer
We are seeking experienced, hands-on Software Reliability Engineers to act as evangelists for continuous integration, testing, and safe, automated deployments. This is a practical DevOps and SRE role for practitioners who lead by example to make change safe and easy for development teams. The position is roughly 70% coding and configuration.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct targeted engagements with development teams facing challenges getting to safe and rapid release cadence, or struggling with vulnerability resolution.
- Wrapping the application in a suite of well-designed tests, most of which can run locally, including smoke tests to be run as part of the deployment process.
- Sourcing and integrating appropriate test data, implementing data masking in lower environments
- Upgrading to supported runtimes (generally Java or NPM).
- Containerizing applications where feasible.
- Upgrading open-source libraries to their latest available major versions (e.g., migrating from Spring 2).
- Upgrading to the latest version of all dependencies, whether installed software, libraries, internal code, base images or operating system. Implementing processes that allow us seamlessly to stay current
- Implementing continuous library updates using Renovate.
- Introducing best practice source control and branch management
- Improving code review processes
- Ensuring best practice security patterns, secrets management, authentication and authorisation
- Simplifying and automating application deployment processes, including automated database changes with Liquibase and installed software with Ansible.
- Introducing standard observability patterns.
- Overhauling exception handling and logging.
- Implementing resilient hot-hot cross-datacenter deployment topologies.
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