Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About SmartAsset:

SmartAsset is on a mission to help people get better Financial Advice. Our vision is to be the web’s go-to resource for financial advice powering the largest marketplace connecting consumers with financial advisors and financial products.

We have raised $110 Million in Series D Funding, bringing our valuation to over $1 Billion to further fuel SmartAsset’s continued growth of its market defining SmartAdvisor platform. Today, SmartAsset reaches more than 100 million people each month through its personal finance content, custom tools and personalized calculators. SmartAsset was also named to Y Combinator's list of Top 100 Companies of all time and Forbes' list of America's Best Startup Employers in 2020.

SmartAsset has been featured in hundreds of publications, including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, TechCrunch, The New York Times, CNBC, FOX Business, The Washington Post, U.S. News World Report, TIME, Reuters, Businessweek, and Barron’s.  

About the Team: 

You’ll be working as part of a small but essential team making important decisions and improvements to our infrastructure. You’ll work closely with the data engineering team and be supporting initiatives that span across their various applications from the ground up. You’ll get the opportunity to work with many other talented individuals and feel that you’re making an impact in the work that you’re doing.

About the Job: 

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of CI/CD around various data centric applications.
• Leverage infrastructure-as-code and AWS services to evolve our current infrastructure to be self healing and auto-scaling.
• Separating our data production environment into production and staging/development.
• Monitor the performance of databases and related systems and take proactive measures to ensure optimal performance and security.
• Work closely with development teams to ensure that applications are optimized for performance, scalability, and reliability, while also adhering to security best practices.
• Write infrastructure-as-code in such a way that it can be leveraged across multiple applications.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts for deploying and managing databases and related systems.
• Design, deploy, maintain, and scale databases and related systems in AWS and Snowflake.

Skills / Experience You Have:

• At least 5 years of experience in DevOps engineering, with a primary focus on security and database-related systems.
• Hands on experience with software provisioning tools (Ansible, Terraform, etc)
• Expert-level knowledge of AWS services and infrastructure, including EC2, EKS, IAM and RDS. 
• Experience building, deploying, and modifying CI/CD pipelines in GitLab.
• Familiarity with NewRelic or other similar APM tools. 
• Strong scripting skills in one or more of the following: Bash, Python, Perl, or Ruby.
• Experience with database clustering, replication, and backup and restore strategies.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of security best practices and experience implementing them in a DevOps environment.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to work with cross-functional teams.
• Experience with Snowflake is a big plus.

Skills / Experience Preferred:

• At least 5 years of experience in DevOps engineering, with a primary focus on security and database-related systems.
• Expert-level knowledge of AWS services and infrastructure, including EC2, EKS, IAM and RDS. 
• Experience with containerization (Kubernetes, docker).
• Experience building, deploying, and modifying CI/CD pipelines in Gitlab.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in Information Technology or Computer Science.

Available Benefits and Perks

• All roles at SmartAsset are currently and will remain remote - flexibility to work from anywhere in the US.
• Medical, Dental, Vision - multiple packages available based on your individualized needs
• Life/AD&D Insurance - basic coverage at 100% company paid, additional supplemental available 
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• FSA: Medical and Dependant Care 
• 401K - 3% match with immediate vesting
• Equity packages for each role
• Time Off:  PTO, 3 Month Paid Parental Leave,  Secondary Caregiver Leave
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
• Employee Resource Groups supporting our underrepresented communities
• Pet Insurance
• Home Office Stipend
• Health and Wellness Stipend
• Monthly Food Delivery Stipend

SmartAsset is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us at Recruiting@smartasset.com.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Nevada, Rhode Island, Washington, and New York City residents* Minimum Salary of $117,000 - 210,000 + equity + benefits.

Salary at SmarAsset is determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location within the contiguous United States.