Description

Verisign helps enable the security, stability, and resiliency of the internet. We are a trusted provider of internet infrastructure services for the networked world and deliver unmatched performance in domain name system (DNS) services.

We are a mission focused, values driven company where each individual can contribute to building a stronger, more secure internet. We offer a dynamic and flexible work environment with competitive benefits and the ability to grow your career.

Verisign is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer to join our Production Operations team. This is a technical position with high visibility and cross-functional responsibility. Successful applicants must demonstrate superior interpersonal skills, time management skills, and prioritization skills. In this Dev/Ops role, you will lead the design and implementation of the application, which monitors KPIs of flagship products of the company in Production and Capacity, Availability, Performance & Scalability (CAPS) environments, analyze performance trends and provide insights and recommendations. You will act as backup for a REST API based internal database governance platform database application.

Our ideal candidate possesses exceptional technical abilities, thrives in a collaborative team setting, and demonstrates the ability to understand complex systems. Candidate must be capable of managing multiple priorities within our dynamic operations group. We seek effective communicators who can navigate a matrixed environment. A high degree of technical expertise and relevant experience is essential for success in this role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership: Develop and maintain the application which ingests the performance data and health metrics of the flagship products from various data sources into Postgres DB and uses Grafana/GWT dashboards to visualize and monitor the ingested data. Migrate GWT dashboards to Grafana dashboards. Deploy and manage the application stack including the Postgres DB in Kubernetes.

• Performance Monitoring: Analyze registry performance metrics to ensure SLAs are met. Write complex analytical SQL queries for performance monitoring, trend analysis, and anomaly detection.

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with DevOps, Infrastructure teams to ensure reliable and scalable monitoring. Obtain and share knowledge about internal operations applications.

• Documentation: Developing and maintaining comprehensive documentation for processes, procedures, and configurations.Providing detailed analysis and explanation of data for senior leadership.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems or a related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 12+ years of full stack software development experience.
• Experience Analyzing performance metrics and reporting on findings.
• Experience collaborating with peer groups such as QA, Development and Operations
• Experience documenting work tasks and changes in tools such as Jira, Service Now, Confluence
• Comfortable and able to work directly with developers and other engineering teams
• Experience working in highly productive team environments employing agile practices

Required Skills:

• Analytical and SQL skills to understand the trends in performance data
• Shell scripting
• HiveQL
• Python
• Grafana
• Tomcat
• Core Java

Preferred Skills

• Deploying and managing applications in Kubernetes
• REST API
• Postgres database management
• GWT(Google Web Toolkit)
• Flask

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

The pay range is $164,300 - $222,300.

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.

Verisign is an equal opportunity employer. That means we recruit, hire, compensate, train, promote, transfer, and administer all terms and conditions of employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected categories under applicable law.

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