Engineer Site Reliability

We are a well-established and fast-growing financial services /software company that develops unique SaaS products to achieve our goal of “Better Financial Lives Through Technology and People”! Our highly innovative software has already taken the industry by storm and we aim to continue our campaign to produce something that our clients and users truly benefit from. You will work with an extremely talented team, boast a tremendous company culture, and will participate in our exponential growth. Please send a GitHub/repo link if you have a project you are proud of. 

Job Responsibilities: 

• Responsible for a diverse set of assignments, spanning a wide range of technologies and a mid-level of complexity 

• Works independently on assignments with minimal instruction 

•  Work is reviewed for soundness of judgment, overall accuracy and adequacy 

•  Establish key indicators (SLIs) measuring the performance of services and build proactive monitor and alerts 

•  Support projects of varying complexity and impact across multiple disciplines and teams 

•  Conduct in-depth analysis of problems to identify relevant findings and root causes 

•  Play a key role in ensuring the high availability, resilience, and scalability of containerized applications in production 

• Document critical systems and create runbooks for incidents 

• Lead capacity planning and right-sizing exercises 

• Maintain and optimize infrastructure as code (IaC) 

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex system and deployment issues 

• Manage observability within Kubernetes, specifically EKS 

•  Collaborate with development teams to support releases and create highly scalable, resilient, and maintainable services 

• Work in a GitOps driven environment 

Experience Required:  

• 2+ years professional experience in SRE or relevant field. 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems or equivalent experience.

• AWS, Kubernetes, or relevant certifications.

• Experience with observability suites and APM tooling such as DataDog, AppDynamics, New Relic, etc. 

• Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as shell, Go, Python, etc.

• Experience supporting Java Spring Boot applications 

• Production experience in Kubernetes, especially EKS 

Desired Skills:

• Experience maintaining high availability and resiliency within AWS infrastructure components, including EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, and others 

• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code frameworks such as Terraform and Cloudformation 

•  Demonstrated experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes 

•  Experience with technologies, systems, networks, and potential gaps that can impact an organization’s ability to effectively detect and respond to production incidents 

•  Strong problem-solving abilities and a desire to learn 

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications of the job. The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time. You will be evaluated in part based on your performance of the responsibilities and/or tasks listed in this job description. You may be required to perform other duties not included in this job description. The job description is not a contract for employment, and either you or the employer may terminate employment at any time, for any reason, as per the terms and conditions of your employment contract.