The Role
As a Sr. Engineer for the Hashicorp Cloud DR team, you will play a critical role in enhancing the reliability DR governance of HashiCorp's cloud products. With at least 6 years of experience in Software Development in DR domain or reliability engineering or systems engineering or system testing or related fields, you will lead efforts to identify, address, and mitigate operational challenges before they impact our customers. Your expertise in system resilience, and understanding disaster recovery strategies will ensure that our services meet the highest standards of reliability and help achieve operational excellence across our cloud products.
You will play a pivotal role in enhancing our operational resilience and maintaining the reliability of our enterprise and cloud-based products. With a focus on DR and overall Quality you will be at the forefront of ensuring high availability and compliance of DR standards across HashiCorp’s offerings.
You will provide expert execution of the DR test plans, You will be working on a wide variety of tools and exploring new avenues to ensure all the products meet the essential Operational readiness criteria.
What you’ll do (responsibilities)
- Implement best practices for system reliability and disaster recovery, including proactive identification of potential failure points and the development of automated mitigations.
- Design and execute comprehensive DR testing strategies to identify bottlenecks and failure points that affect RPO and RTO across our cloud products.
- Drive initiatives around DR compliance and implement best practices and technologies to improve system resilience, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance through the Chaos testing framework.
- Conducting rigorous performance benchmarking and testing to validate the efficiency and scalability of the tooling we want to build for the orchestration of DR across our cloud products.
- Work closely with engineering and product teams to integrate operational readiness into the development lifecycle, enhancing product stability and user satisfaction.
- Build and refine tools and frameworks for automated testing, environment simulation, and incident reproduction, reducing manual effort and increasing test coverage.
- Conduct mock drills and drive chaos tests in collaboration with partner teams, analyzing test results, documenting findings and making actionable recommendations for systemic improvements
- Share your knowledge and expertise with team members, fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
What you’ll need (basic qualifications)
- 6+ years of experience in software development, reliability engineering, systems engineering, or non functional testing roles with a focus on Disaster recovery or backup and recovery of Cloud based systems.
- Having commitment to explore career opportunity in Reliability Engineering field
- Proficient in Golang programming language or any other scripting language
- Hands on experience with version control systems such as Git , Gitlab
- Understands micro services architecture
- Good understanding of CI/CD process and maintaining quality pipelines
- Experience in collecting various metrics and building data pipeline to analyze data and building dashboards for availability and status of various components across the cloud
- Exposure to cloud technologies ( AWS, Azure, Or GCP) and container technologies like Nomad or Kubernetes.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills, capable of working with cross-functional teams and articulating technical concepts to diverse audiences.
What's nice to have (preferred qualifications)
- Exposure to disaster recovery domain or worked on any product testing for DR is a plus
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation) is a plus.
- Chaos testing experience is a plus
- Understanding of compliance frameworks like ISO/IEC 27031, ISO 22301, SOC2 is a Plus #LI-Hybrid
