Site Reliability Engineer

 

For over 60 years, IQAir has been a leader in improving indoor air quality in residential, commercial and institutional markets. IQAir’s vision is to assist people in living longer, healthier lives by providing products and services to help them breathe cleaner, healthier air. For our Switzerland team, located in Steinbach, Switzerland, we have an immediate opening for a Site Reliability Engineer.

 

Summary

At IQAir, we’re passionate about building software that solves problems. We have a global air quality platform. We count on our site reliability engineers (SREs) to empower users with a rich feature set, high availability, and stellar performance level to pursue their missions. As we expand customer deployments, we’re seeking an experienced SRE to deliver insights from massive-scale data in real time. Specifically, we’re searching for someone who has fresh ideas and a unique viewpoint, and who enjoys collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop real-world solutions and positive user experiences for every interaction.

 

Objectives of this role

• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health
• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
• Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating for continual improvement
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large-scale distributed software applications

 

Responsibilities

• Gather and analyze metrics from operating systems as well as applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service-level objectives
• Other projects as assigned

 

Minimum Qualifications

• Able to communicate in English in verbal and written form
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in computer science or related discipline
• 3 years experience with monitoring system installation and configuration
• Ability to program (structured and OOP) using one or more high-level languages, such as Python, Javascript, and Go
• Experience with distributed storage technologies such as NFS, EFS, HDFS, Ceph, and Amazon S3, as well as dynamic resource management frameworks ECS Fargate, Kubernetes, Yarn)
• Proficiency in Angular JS, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, JQuery, Node.js, JSON, Ajax, SASS, XML, MongalDB, REST, GO, GraphQL, etc.
• Proficiency in AWS Services like ECS, EC2, Cloudfront, DynamoDB
• Proactive approach to identifying problems, performance bottlenecks, and areas for improvement
• Ability to pass pre-employment drug and background screen

 

Other Requirements

May be required to attend and participate in professional development activities both in and outside the company to stay abreast of new developments and best practices.

What IQAir offers

IQAir offers a number of additional discretionary benefits such as:

• Work with a small, flexible international team
• Extensive on the job training and professional development
• Company with a strong value system
• Work in a Clean Air Facility
• 60-year history of excellence
• A comprehensive benefits package that includes:
• • 100% subsidized medical, dental & vision for team member
  • 401K Plan with company match, 100% vested from day one
  • On-site gym and 24-Hour Fitness Gym Membership
  • Wellness Program
  • Alternative Transportation & Carpool Incentives
  • 14.5 paid Holidays per year
  • 12 Day of PTO in first year
  • A slide!

and much more!