Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job#: 2069960

Job Description:

Position is a 12-18 month contract to hire

100% remote, must be able to work core 8-5p on CT

Pay Rate will vary based on qualifications and experience, range is $50-$60/ hr

Position Purpose:

Helps lead projects that are focused on managing and maintaining optimum platform infrastructure performance, reliability, and security using SRE practices, observability tools, manual and automated procedures, documentation, people and processes and continuous delivery(CI/CD) tools, processes, and designs. Develops complex services to automate monitoring activities and provide critical information to facilitate response and resolution of performance and availability issues and incidents. Understands and advocates for standardized and scalable software tools to ensure that systems operate without interruption at optimum performance and leads project teams through out the deployment process. Troubleshoots and analyzes service disruptions to determine the root cause of issues and develop solutions for improved reliability.

Must haves:

As a Sr. SRE, the individual should have a minimum of 3-5 years in each of the following areas:

• Infrastructure support - understanding the nomenclature of infrastructure and how data flows.
• Python language
• Gitlab or similar platforms
• Observability, monitoring and alerting tools like Dynatrace, Splunk and PagerDuty

Nice to haves:

• Artificial Intelligence & Language Learning Models - Need to have basic understanding.
• AWS Operations

Performance indicators:

Participate in on-call rotations

Accept and close out stories in both a Sprint as well as Kanban board within a timely fashion

Participate in mandatory team meetings including staff and code reviews/tech talks

Be present at all times in their job

Education/Experience:

A Bachelors degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science).

Requires 4 - 6 years of related experience.

Or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position.

Technical Skills:

One or more of the following skills are desired.

Experience with Linux Operating System; Operating Systems; Unix Operating System; Windows Operating System

Experience with Other: Experience with observability/monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Elastic, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana

Experience with Other: enterprise level CICD Tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, Cloudbees, OpenShift

Experience with Other: working in public cloud platforms like AWS and Azure

Experience with Programming Tools

Experience with Other: building and operating highly scaled applications

Experience with MongoDB; MySQL; Oracle Database Management System (DBMS); PL SQL; SQL (Programming Language)

Experience with Other: varying code repositories, auto deployments, branching with tools such as Gitlab, Bitbucket, Subversion

Experience with Other: IT service management tools such as Service Now, Atlassian, BMC

Soft Skills:

Intermediate - Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty

Intermediate - Ability to identify basic problems and procedural irregularities, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions

Intermediate - Ability to work independently

Intermediate - Demonstrated analytical skills

Intermediate - Demonstrated project management skills

Intermediate - Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure

Intermediate - Demonstrates excellent judgment and decision making skills

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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.