Chaos Test Engineer to work for a multinational Institution in Strasbourg

We are looking for a Chaos Test Engineer to work for a client project in Strasbourg.

Location: 100% on-site work in Strasbourg.

Start date: Immediately

End Date: 9 months; possible extensions

Preliminary Requirements: Candidate should be citizen of member states of the European Union (EU nationality), and should be able to get their criminal record.

Role description:

The work focuses on experimenting with distributed systems to identify weaknesses and improve their resilience by subjecting the systems to adverse conditions in a controlled manner to observe how they respond and ensure they can handle unexpected failures without significantly affecting their performance.

Task description:

• Chaos Experiment Design: Planning and designing experiments that simulate system failures, such as service outages, network latency, packet loss, etc.
• Experiment Execution: Implementing and executing these experiments in test or controlled production environments.
• Monitoring and Analysis: Monitoring system behaviour during experiments and analysing results to identify weak points.
• Documentation and Reporting: Documenting findings and providing detailed reports with recommendations to improve system resilience.
• Automation: Developing scripts and tools to automate the execution of chaos experiments.
• Collaboration: Working with development, operations, and security teams to implement improvements based on experiment results.

Job requirements:

• University degree (master or equivalent) in Computer Science;
• Knowledge of Distributed Systems: Understanding how distributed systems work and potential failures that can occur.
• Programming and Scripting: Skills in languages such as Python, Go, and other Scripting languages.
• Chaos Engineering Tools: Familiarity with tools like Kraken, Chaos Monkey, Gremlin, Litmus, and others.
• Data Analysis: Ability to analyse experiment results and draw useful conclusions.
• Communication: Ability to communicate findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical teams.
• Problem Solving: Ability to identify and solve complex problems in distributed systems.
• Very good English speaking & writing skills;
• Experience and willingness of working in an international/multicultural environment.

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