IT Operations Senior RampES SRE

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Texas, United States of America

Job Family Group:

Information Technology (IT)

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

Business unit:

Projects and Technology

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

Where you fit in

We play an important role by developing, deploying, and operating Information and Digital Technologies which enable Shell to produce more and cleaner energy for the world.

Shell’s Information and Digital Technologies organisation applies technical, commercial, and emerging digital technologies skills to help Shell industrial assets competitively optimise energy production while reducing emissions intensity. We partner with our business to replicate technologies across our business portfolios.

What’s the role?

Shell is looking for an IT Operations Senior SRE to join our team. In this role you will contribute to Secure, Reliable and Affordable Operations as well as delivery of value-add IT services within our rapidly growing Renewables & Energy Solutions (R&ES) landscape.

In this role as IT Operations Senior SRE you are embedded in DevOps teams with full stack developers, architect, product owner and data engineers to deliver through the product and software development lifecycle (from design to deploy) and be ready for production to ensure security, reliability, and compliance.

Accountabilities include:

• Build and scale the technology infrastructure to meet rapidly increasing demand.

• Collaborate with Development and QA to launch new features and services.

• Monitor and troubleshoot platform issues.

• Automate deployment, monitoring, management and incident response.

• Develop and improve operational practices and procedures.

• Build a resilient, secure and compliant, efficient cloud-based applications.

• Build and automate controls by embedding stages in pipelines to get them certified as complaint release pipelines.

• Manage cross-functional requirements working with various company stakeholders.

• Drive and champion the Site Reliability culture and reserve time to contribute back into the inner source tribes to enhance Shell’s SRE capabilities. Run demo Proof of Concepts for these capabilities.

• From an operations perspective, the SRE will be covering multiple products within the same product line and supporting the IT Operations team in meeting the operational excellence requirements and commitments.

• The SRE effort is usually split between DevOps teams support and IT Operations activities (together 50%). Other important activities include product feature enhancements (50%).

• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve agility, reliability and velocity.

• Lead the development and automation of the CI/CD pipeline.

• Lead Engineers and motivate to maintaining their services by measuring and monitoring service level objectives and indicators.

• Be the driving force for correct incident response and blameless post-mortems within Product Development.

• Develop a framework for maintenance and review of dashboards, alerts, capacity planning and deployment readiness checklists.

• Explore the opportunities for auto heal to be implemented into our infrastructure and applications deployments.

What we need from you?

Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer.

Bachelor’s Degree is a must.

Minimum ten (10) years’ experience with software engineering, software development, or system operations.

Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

Essential skills: Unix/Linux shell, can write shell scripts, and understands Linux internals.

AWS/Azure administration or system engineering certification and proven hands-on experience.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform and container orchestration tools preferably Kubernetes.

Managing post-mortems to avoid structural issues resurfacing using blameless culture.

Production grade setup management incl high availability designs using nodes, pods and horizontal autoscaling within the cluster.

Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale production systems.

Knows Python, Java, Go, Rust, or similar.

Understands networking in the cloud and messaging, especially between services.

Has hands-on experience using source control (Git, GitHub, GitLab) and feature branching strategies.

Inquisitive and assertive mindset, being empowered to drive improvement initiatives in the tech stack independently

Impact the product development teams to deliver in secure, reliable and compliant manner.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemicals companies with over 90,000 employees in more than 70 countries and territories. In the US, we have operated for over a century and are a major oil and gas producer onshore and in the Gulf of Mexico, a recognized innovator in exploration and production technology, and a leading manufacturer and marketer of fuels, natural gas and petrochemicals. We deliver energy responsibly; operate safely with respect to our neighbours and work to minimize our environmental impact. We are in search of remarkable people who will thrive in a diverse and inclusive work environment to deliver exciting projects locally and globally. People who are passionate about exploring new frontiers. Innovators and pioneers. People with the drive to help shape our future. Because remarkable people achieve remarkable things.

An innovative place to work

There’s never been a more exciting time to work at Shell. Everyone here is helping solve one of the biggest challenges facing the world today: bringing the benefits of energy to everyone on the planet, whilst managing the risks of climate change.

Join us and you’ll add your talent and imagination to a business with the power to shape the future – whether by investing in renewables, exploring new ways to store energy or developing technology that helps the world to use energy more efficiently.

An inclusive place to work

To power progress together, we need to attract and develop the brightest minds and make sure every voice is heard. Here are just some of the ways we’re nurturing an inclusive environment – one where you can express your ideas, extend your skills and reach your potential…

We’re creating a space where people with disabilities can excel through transparent recruitment process, workplace adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Feel free to let us know about your circumstances when you apply, and we’ll take it from there.

We’re closing the gender gap – whether that’s through action on equal pay or by enabling more women to reach senior roles in engineering and technology.

We’re striving to be a pioneer of an inclusive and diverse workplace, promoting equality for employees regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

We consider ourselves a flexible employer and want to support you finding the right balance. We encourage you to discuss this with us in your application.

A rewarding place to work

Combine our creative, collaborative environment and global operations with an impressive range of benefits and joining Shell becomes an inspired career choice.

We’re huge advocates for career development. We’ll encourage you to try new roles and experience new settings. By pushing people to reach their potential, we frequently help them find skills they never knew they had, or make career moves they never thought possible.

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According to the United Nations, the global population could increase to more than 10 billion people. A key role for society – and for Shell – is to find ways to meet the growing demand for energy, with less carbon emissions. We need people who dare to think differently – to take part in developing tomorrow’s energy solutions today.

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