SRE Resilience Lisboa

SRE Resilience
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Decskill was founded in 2014 as an IT Consulting Company and their main mission is to delivery value through the knowledge. We enable companies to meet the chalenges of digital world by providing our clients with business models that ensure technological capacity, flexibility and agility. We are more than 500 consultants with offices in Lisbon, Porto and Madrid.

DECSKILL operates in 3 main areas:

• DECSKILL TALENT, through which we provide our clients with an extension to their IT teams;

• DECSKILL BOOST, through which we provide our client with software development models to increase capacity and optimize Time-to-Market, where we create and manage teams that deliver according to their needs, at the desired speed;

• DECSKILL CONNECT through which we provide our client with consulting services, as well as the implementation and management of information technology infrastructures.

Our practice results in the creation of value for our customers, either by delivering qualified and
- added services, or through highly qualified and motivated professionals, as well as technology solutions that allow us to operate and transform the business of our customers.

We are looking for a SRE for a new project!

Mission : An SRE focused on Resilience. Someone who can look at a complex system of services, products, applications, and contents that work together for a full E2E customer experience in a telco company and identify areas for improvement to make it more solid, stable, reliable.

Closely related to the Googles definition of an SRE however here almost exclusively focused on resilience itself. This can be before, during or after code has been written for that product.

Responsabilities:

• Define/create/implement standards and drive implementation of resilient design
• Understand what happens if a downstream service fails. How is our upstream response handled? What is the customer experience (impact)?
• Define/create/implement fallback mechanisms/circuit breakers, understand if its appropriate to create one at all. Define/create logic for aforementioned circuit breakers (experience shows todays implementations may have a negative impact)
• How do we tackle E2E resilience on a customer journey?
• Define/create/implement timeouts settings E2E (these have caused negative outcomes in the past)
• Participate in complex operational issues E2E, identifying root causes and architectural solutions (or other improvements) to avoid
  - occurrence
• Work closely with architecture team and Tech Leads in early stages of SDLC.

Requirements:

• An environment where services can be built in mobile, web, integration or backend technologies, Google Cloud based and Apigee exposure. Some of the technologies involved are: Angular | Strapi CMS | Squid Proxy | Ping
  Federate | Kotlin and Swift | Apigee | GCP.
• Availability to travel is important, the project requires trips to the UK (once every two months).
• Ability to adapt to different contexts, teams and Clients.
• Teamwork skills but also sense of autonomy.
• Motivation for international projects and ok if travel is included.
• Willingness to collaborate with other players.
• Strong communication skills.

If you’re interested in this job please send your CV to with reference “CA/SRE”.

Thank you! :)

Decskill is committed to equality and
- discrimination with all our talents. We recruit and promote talent, based on diversity and inclusion, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, race, nationality or any other form of discrimination incompatible with the dignity of the human being.