Former Private Cloud and OnPrem applications and services are moving to a Multi-Cloud environment (AWS/Azure).  We’re looking to transform our technology stack to be cloud-native, leveraging AWS services and industry best practices related to Site Reliability Engineering.
 

Title:

Site Reliability Engineer 

Position Overview:

Essential Job Functions:

• Work with Development teams accommodating tools and access request
• Standardize Monitoring and alerting environments
• Participate in patching and vulnerability remediation
• Manage IAM roles and conduct basic security audits                              
• Audit Pipelines and inventory accounts
• Ability to administrate source code repositories
• Work with Sr. Engineers on scoping out proposed Projects
• Become a member of the Incident response team
• Participate in standup meetings
• Repair and recover from hardware, software, and process failures.
• Design, execute, rollout, and evangelize the cloud operating model.
• Lead in defining standards on tools supporting pipelines with a Security first mindset.
• Ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems.
• Plan and coordinate reviews and approval of technical deliverables.
• Build and execute unit tests and unit test plans.
• Monitor progress by maintaining dialogue on work and results.
• Develop installation and monitoring tools for support and operations.
• Work closely with developer teams to create an automated CI/CD pipeline.
• Conduct assessments, build blueprints and roadmaps, build proofs of concept, and write technical points of view.
• Continuously improve patterns, practices, and operational efficiency within the team.
• Contribute to training and customer support activities as needed.
• Communicate fluently with business stakeholders, product managers, researchers, and developers.
• Provide recommendations and technology-based solutions to business requirements
• Provide 1st, 2^nd, and 3rd level support to Service Desk and other staff
• Create documentation of server systems, operational procedures, topology, and hardware/software inventory
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring of team members, as needed
• Maintain a good working knowledge of all firm infrastructure and applications services
• Document problem resolutions into the appropriate systems
• Troubleshoot, analyze, and resolve system and user problems
• Plan, organize, and coordinate work assignments and prioritize workload
• Rapidly deploy fixes to systems in response to newly identified stability and security threats
• Knowledge and understanding of ITIL and SRE

Qualifications/ Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 5 years of related experience preferred
• Experience with open-source databases such as Post Gres
• Experience with Scrum or Agile methodologies
• Knowledge of Terraform or CloudFormation
• Experience in Building and maintaining Kubernetes clusters
• Knowledge of AWS and other cloud services
• Knowledge of AWS services
• Experience with programming Languages such as Java or .Net
• Prior experience in working on a team
• Strong communication, interpersonal and mentoring skills
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment
• Self-motivation and ability to stay focused in the middle of distraction
• Experience with Dashboarding and Reporting Management

Special Requirements:

• The employee may be required to report to a different local office as a normal, contemplated, and mandated incident of their employment

Working Conditions:

• Office environment with frequent computer, mouse, keyboard use
• Alternating between sitting or standing as needed
• Hearing, talking, reaching, grasping