Sr 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 high level of complexity 

• Works independently on assignments 

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

• Guide and implement monitoring in distributed systems, establishing key indicators (SLIs) along the way 

• Lead the design and instrumentation of how metrics are gathered from multiple sources 

• Improve the availability and performance of systems and services 

• Spread Site Reliability principals and knowledge across the organization 

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

• Manage observability within Kubernetes, specifically EKS 

• Improve the availability and performance of systems and services 

• Measure the effectiveness and business impact of the SRE practice 

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

• Work in a GitOps driven environment 

Experience Required:  

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

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent experience.

• AWS, Kubernetes, or relevant certifications.

• Production experience in Kubernetes, especially EKS.

• Experience supporting Java Spring Boot applications.

• Experience with service meshes, Istio preferred.

Desired Skills 

• Expert understanding in one or more observability suites and APM tooling such as DataDog, AppDynamics, New Relic, etc. 

• Expert understanding in maintaining high availability and resiliency within AWS infrastructure components, including EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, and others.

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

• Expertise with Infrastructure as Code frameworks such as Terraform and Cloudformation.

• Proficiency with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

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.