Site Reliability Engineer

Welcome to ConocoPhillips, where innovation and excellence create a platform for opportunity and growth. Come realize your full potential here.Who We AreWe are one of the world's largest independent exploration and production companies, based on proved reserves and production of liquids and natural gas. With operations and activities in 13 countries, we explore for, develop, and produce crude oil and natural gas globally. We are challenged with an important job to safely find and deliver energy to the world. Our employees are critical to our success, and with them we power civilization.We're grounded by our SPIRIT Values - safety, people, integrity, responsibility, innovation, and teamwork. These values position us to deliver strong performance in a dynamic business - but not at all costs. We believe it's not just what we do - it's how we do it - that sets us apart.We strive to make a significant difference in the communities where we live and operate. We create an inclusive environment that values all voices and opinions. Together, the different backgrounds, experiences, ideas, and perspectives of our employees drive our success.Job SummaryDescriptionConocoPhillips has a need for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to become a part of our growing Digital IT team focused on building an OpenShift/Kubernetes capability. The SRE will support the reliability of Digital IT/OT critical applications. This transformative role involves automating IT infrastructure tasks and driving SRE best practices, tools, and processes. The ideal candidate should exhibit a growth mindset and proactively monitor and respond to incidents for optimal user experience.The candidate must have senior level experience deploying and supporting applications in Kubernetes. The ideal candidate will have experience in both on-prem OpenShift and Azure Kubernetes container platforms.The successful candidate will possess a strong developer background as well as social skills needed to communicate design requirements and objectives while providing thought leadership to peers and leadership.Candidates should be self-motivated and connectional IT professionals with a strong background in software development, systems administration and IT automation.Job DescriptionYour responsibilities may include:• Maintaining survivability and reliability of IT/OT critical resources• Write and build CI/CD pipelines and build/release processes for IT/OT workflow applications• Provide mentoring to the IT/OT Devops team in the best practices associated with CI/CD deployments using ADO, and GIT• Perform periodic load and scalability testing to establish baselines, drift, and capacity planning• Conduct weekly operational state reviews covering performance trends, anomalies, errors, and other availability events with SREs, product owners, and development teams• Participate in quarterly business and operational reviews aligning on roadmaps, development velocity, efficiency, growth trends, etc• Plan and execute periodic Disaster Recovery exercises including both tabletop and simulated failures (fault injection)Basic/Required:• Bachelor's degree or higher in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, other related Information Technology/Information Systems field, or foreign equivalent• 7 or more years of Information Technology experience• 1 or more years of experience with at least one technology in each of the tech stack categories: Monitoring and Logging Tools(s): AppDynamics, Splunk, ELK Stack, DataDog, Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch/X-Ray, Grafana | Programming: C# .NET, PowerShell, Python, YAML | Containers: Docker, Helm Chart | OS: Linux - RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS | Code Repos: Azure Repos, GitHub, GitLab | Infrastructure as code: Terraform, Ansible | Automation Tools: Jenkins, Chef, Puppet | Agile: JIRA, SAFe• Intermediate knowledge with continuous integration/deployment processes and tools such as IDEs (Eclipse), Source Code management. (GIT/Stash), ADO Pipelines, Maven, Nexus artifacts, etc• Intermediate knowledge with Scripting such as Python and BashPreferred:• 1 or more years of experience in cloud/virtual technologies and management - OpenShift, VMware, AWS, Azure, etc• 1 or more years of experience in deploying applications in OpenShift in both public and private cloud• Expert knowledge with OpenShift and Kubernetes• Expert knowledge in application performance monitoring, observability, and proactive alert correlation, including monitoring containers and failure-based alerting• Advanced knowledge of SRE practices: incident response, change/release management, capacity planning, infrastructure automation, elastic environments, chaos engineering and blameless postmortems• Intermediate knowledge, skills and abilities to support web server technologies - Apache, Nginx, IIS• Intermediate knowledge, skills and abilities to automate the creation of Platform as a Services (PaaS) infrastructure using industry standard tools such as Ansible and Chef• Intermediate knowledge with Industrial Control System (ICS) security architecture - Purdue model• Excellent written and oral communications skills• Demonstrated ability to communicate to nontechnical audience on technical issues• Demonstrated ability to communicate on a technical level to a technical audience• Strong social skills, adaptable and able to learn quickly• Requires limited supervision and have excellent time management skills• Self-motivated and self-starter• Takes ownership of actions and follows through on dedications by holding others accountable and standing up for what's right• Listens actively and invites new ideas for exchanged opinions, then influences and acts to drive positive performance and achieve results• Builds positive relationships based on trust and seeks collaboration across organizational boundaries to achieve goals