Our Technology team is the backbone of our company: constantly creating, testing, learning and iterating to better meet the needs of our customers. If you thrive in a fast-paced, ideas-led environment, you’re in the right place.

Why this job’s a big deal?

As Priceline caters to the global market, enhancing performance of highly scalable, high performance web-based products continues to be a main focus. We strive to build infrastructure and eliminate manual work through automation. Practices such as limiting time spent on operational work and proactive identification of potential outages factor into iterative improvement that is key to both product quality and interesting and dynamic day-to-day work.

In this role you will get to:

• You will play an ownership role and will be responsible for managing a team of talented SRE’s and operations professionals

• One of your key responsibilities will be to coordinate with global stakeholders. 

• On a given day, you will find yourself working across teams to develop/design solutions, mentor & lead a team of junior/senior engineers, automate processes and solve critical production issues.

• Responsible for running capacity tests, post-mortems and incident command for critical production issues.

• You will be responsible for establishing best practices and processes.

• Develop software and lend hands-on technical expertise to design, deploy, and optimize large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems 

• Improve, tune and perform operational efficiency within the Linux based infrastructure and production environment 

• Actively deploy and support applications on our private and public cloud environment

• Manage thousands of servers and hundreds of applications in multiple geo locations 

• Collaborate with development teams to support the current environment as we transform into a cloud architecture and provide resources “as a service” to developers 

• Reduce manual intervention and turn-around time to solve repetitive problems by automating and monitoring the health of the website 

Who you are: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or relevant experience

• 10+ Years of relevant professional experience along with that you must have minimum experience of 2 plus years in leading a team 

• You should have Passion in learning new technologies and be able to manage working in Agile mode

• Candidate must be exceptionally strong on Design Principles, Design Patterns, Architecture Styles, Specifications, Libraries)

• Expertise with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7& 8/ CentOS

• Must have 2+ years of experience in Cloud Services (GCP /AWS is a preference)

• Highly desirable to have experience in Kubernetes & Service Mesh (Big Plus)

• General knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools and Configuration management tools Such as (Terraform/Ansible/Chef/Puppet) 

• Experience in API management tools and APM tools (Such as Apigee and New Relic)

• Extensive experience in one or more of these scripting languages (Shell, Perl, Python & PowerShell scripting)

• Exceptional understanding of infrastructure scalability issues

• Comfort with large scale production systems and technologies (load balancing, monitoring, distributed system and configuration management. 

• Possess a solid grasp of configuration management tools (Salt, Chef, Puppet/Ansible) 

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