Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Remote

Summary:

We are looking for technical team members at all levels who want to push themselves to deliver best in market SaaS solutions. We offer a challenging environment where you will have to grow, adapt and use your skills consistently. Our customers rely on us in the moments that matter. Engineering delivers on that promise.

You can read the bullets below. But they almost always look the same, right? Here is the deal - being a principle engineer here at DFIN means helping us deliver SaaS software solutions for our customers that primarily work with the SEC or other global regulating bodies. Our products are in demand because we solve regulatory problems for our customers. As a principle engineer, you'll own projects end to end, write code that others will look towards as a standard, understand how we operate our systems and make sure our technology grows and doesn't become a big pile of tech debt.

Responsibilities:

• Champion and implement a culture of SRE to maintain a high-quality platform infrastructure
• Champion and implement application and infrastructure monitoring and alerting to prevent client impacting issues by ensuring system availability, performance and scalability to maintain SLOs and SLAs
• Optimize application performance at scale
• Automate everything including system operational runbooks
• Define and support continuous integration and deployment pipelines (CI/CD) aligned to branching and quality assurance strategies
• Dive deep into technology and stay on the forefront of the latest tools, technologies, and strategies; help evaluate, prototype, and integrate them into work processes
• Perform with broad independence and deliver on project milestones and tasks on schedule while communicating progress regularly
• Build strong relationships with SRE team members and software engineering teams to hold each other accountable for quality expectations
• Learn continuously and apply lessons learned
• Evangelize best practices, eliminate bottlenecks, and improve process

Qualifications:

• Experience designing services based and/or tiered web and mobile applications.
• Experience developing secure code and Azure infrastructure, meeting security standards and willing to participate in financial systems security practices using tools such as: Cloud Defender, Checkmarx.
• 8+ years experience writing software in any modern software language such as C# .NET, Java
• 8+ years experience creating automated deployments with tools such as Azure DevOps Pipelines, Ansible, Jenkins or other scripting languages to manage infrastructure, software build and deployment in a continuous integration (CI) / continuous delivery (CD) environment
• 8+ years experience writing scripts in PowerShell or Python/Bash to automate system operations as runbooks for Windows and Linux environments.
• 8+ years experience implementing production performance, availability, and scalability monitoring and alerting best practices using a tool such as New Relic, Dynatrace, DataDog or AppDynamics
• 8+ years experience as a global admin of Azure including cloud cost management
• 8+ years of experience supporting public client facing revenue generating systems
• Strong DevOps focus and experience building and deploying Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or similar technology
• Experiencing monitoring and preventing issues with databases and database queries (SQL, Cosmos) using tools like Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer, Idera SQL Diagnostic Manager, or Redgate SQL Monitor
• Experience planning, coordinating, developing and executing all stages of test scripts
• Experience securing Windows or Linux systems in 24x7 production environment
• Experience with containerization and managing Kubernetes clusters
• Experience with common networking, firewall and load balancing protocols
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.

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