At Pythian, we are experts in strategic database and analytics services, driving digital transformation and operational excellence. Pythian, a multinational company, was founded in 1997 and started by ensuring the reliability and performance of mission-critical databases. We quickly earned a reputation for solving tough data challenges. We were there when the industry moved from on-premises to cloud environments, and as enterprises sought more from their data, we expanded our competencies to include advanced analytics.

Today, we empower organizations to embrace transformation and leverage advanced technologies, including AI, to stay competitive. We deliver cutting-edge solutions that meet each client’s data goals and have built strong partnerships with Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and Snowflake. The powerful combination of our extensive expertise in data and cloud and our ability to keep on top of the latest bleeding edge technologies make us the perfect partner to help mid and large-sized businesses transform to stay ahead in today’s rapidly changing digital economy.

Why you: Do you thrive on solving tough problems—even under pressure? Are you motivated by fast-paced environments with continuous learning opportunities? Do you enjoy collaborating with a team of peers who push you to constantly up your game?

At Pythian, we are building a next-generation Site Reliability Engineering team. We need motivated and talented individuals on our teams, and we want you

You’ll act as a technology leader, advisor for our clients, and mentor for other team members. Projects would include infrastructure architecture, automation, and intelligent monitoring systems from design through implementation.



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What you will be doing:

Operate, maintain, and administer solutions contributing to customer infrastructure's operational efficiency, availability, and visibility.

Planning maintenance activity, design documentation, and standard procedures

Provide Root Cause Analysis reports for outages/incidents (ITIL - Problem Management)

Observe and provide feedback on the current state of the client’s infrastructure, and identify opportunities to improve resiliency, reduce incident occurrence, and automate repetitive administrative and operational tasks.

Contribute to, improve, and maintain team documentation about client systems and infrastructure, procedures, policies, and schedules.

Gather and document information about client environments through audit activities, and analyze the information to identify opportunities for improvement and application of best practices.





Work collaboratively with teammates to contribute to the continuous improvement of our working culture.

Act as a technology leader for clients, as well as drive client discussions on technology road maps.

Participate in an on-call rotation in an escalation capacity.

What we need from you:

Experience working with

Google

(necessary) and AWS Clouds (including infrastructure as code deployment with Cloud Formation, Terraform, Opsworks, etc)

Scripting and automation of administrative tasks using Python and Scala is a must

Solid understanding of microservices architecture and container technologies (Kubernetes is a must, Docker, lxc, etc)

Clear understanding of software development lifecycles and best practices from an infrastructure point of view (PRs, merge, rebase, etc)

Understanding the end-to-end operations of a ‘Business System’ vs components.

Comprehensive systems hardware and network troubleshooting experience

Common Linux distribution platform installation, configuration, performance tuning, and cloud migration.

TCP/IP networking, NIC bonding, and network services configuration (DNS, NTP, DHCP, SMTP, etc)

Operation and administration of virtual infrastructure, including experience with at least one hypervisor (VMware, Hyper‑V, KVM, etc.)

Ability to describe IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, pros and cons of each, use cases for virtualization and cloud

Administration of web servers and supporting technologies, including network load balancers

Experience with the design, development, and deployment of Puppet

System and application error investigation, troubleshooting of access/availability issues including deep multi-system root

📌 Site Reliability Consultant (Winnipeg)
🏢 Pythian
📍 Winnipeg