Key Responsibilities as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer:

• Participate in review of current network process, change, and build procedures; translate to network automation projects.

• Work with Agile team members to design and implement feature in support of established security and acceptance criteria.

• Develop and document standards and provide training to others.

• Research network automation industry trends and automation tools.

• Knowledge of source code management systems, version control tools and developing web services.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure code quality and maintainability.

• Align product features and roadmap to NPL strategic themes.

• Participate in Agile concepts and activities such as daily stand-up meetings, task tracking boards, design and code reviews, automated testing, continuous integration and deployment.

• Work with leaders across product line and business units to understand business strategies and shape technology roadmaps to support those strategies.

• Partner with Business Units to ensure solutions will operate at scale without issue and create visualizations for data collected from networking devices for quick interpretation and notification.

• Provide clear technical direction, prioritization, and delivery excellence for the Network activities; ensuring team members are delivering against priorities, eliminating roadblocks and technical debt.

• Identify, analyze, and resolve vulnerabilities, deployment and operational issues.

• Ensure NPL meets Chevron security, architecture, and best practice guardrails and policies.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Technologies, or Management Information Systems.

• Site Reliability Engineering Fundamentals: Leverage SRE principles and best practices of SLO, SLI, SLA, error budgets, eliminating toil via automation, observability and monitoring, emergency response (triage, postmortem, retrospective), demand forecast and capacity planning, deliver results.

• Cloud Fundamentals

• Network Fundamentals; in-depth knowledge about networking protocols and TCP/IP stack

• Automation and programmability; proficient in Python, Ansible, YAML and asynchronous programming

• System and network monitoring

• Structured technical problem solving and debugging; perfect understanding of access control lists, address translation, tunneling, and standard routing protocols

• Critical thinking, self-motivated with excellent communication skills, and the demonstrated ability to work both independently and as part of a team. Able to conceive and develop a presentation to a peer group that is logical, well-written, and concise

Experience:

• Basic network routing and switch experience. Familiarity with network switches, load balancers, and firewalls

• Network automation/orchestration experience

• Experience using Restful APIs to integrate various technologies

• 5 years’ experience as a network automation engineer with 5+ years of automation programing experience. 5-10 years of experience

Preferred Qualifications/Certifications:

• Experience working in a Linux environment and has a working knowledge of basic Linux commands/utilities

• Desire to develop new ideas, while following best practices for design and coding

• Microsoft Cloud Fundamentals (AZ-900) and Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) certifications

• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Cisco Certified Network professional (CCNP), and/or DevNet certifications