Lead Software Reliability Engineer

We are a fast-growing business and technology consulting company co-founded in 2019. We offer custom-tailored, white-glove engineering services because digital transformation is more than just technology. With a successful track record as a preferred vendor for Fortune 500 companies and a trusted partner for industry leaders, our global talent has helped many clients achieve their goals.

About the role

We are seeking experienced, hands-on Software Reliability Engineers to act as evangelists for continuous integration, testing, and safe, automated deployments. This is a practical DevOps and SRE role for practitioners who lead by example to make change safe and easy for development teams. The position is roughly 70% coding and configuration.

Responsibilities

• Conduct targeted engagements with development teams facing challenges getting to safe and rapid release cadence, or struggling with vulnerability resolution.
• Wrap applications in a suite of well-designed tests, most of which can run locally, including smoke tests as part of the deployment process.
• Source and integrate appropriate test data, implementing data masking in lower environments.
• Upgrade to supported runtimes (generally Java or NPM).
• Containerize applications where feasible.
• Upgrade open-source libraries to their latest available major versions (e.g., migrating from Spring 2).
• Upgrade to the latest version of all dependencies, whether installed software, libraries, internal code, base images, or operating system.
• Implement processes that allow seamless staying current.
• Implement continuous library updates using Renovate.
• Introduce best practice source control and branch management.
• Improve code review processes.
• Ensure best practice security patterns, secrets management, authentication, and authorization.
• Simplify and automate application deployment processes, including automated database changes with Liquibase and installed software with Ansible.
• Introduce standard observability patterns.
• Overhaul exception handling and logging.
• Implement resilient hot-hot cross-datacenter deployment topologies.

Requirements

• Several years of experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) using multiple test frameworks.
• Excellent understanding of different approaches to automation testing and ability to choose the best approach, driving outcomes with AI support.
• Proficiency in JVM languages and/or TypeScript.
• Highest quality coding skills.
• Excellent understanding of safe practices for critical systems, including deployment architecture and observability.
• Experience with multiple continuous integration and deployment systems.
• Excellent understanding of secure coding practices.
• Competency with Docker and OpenShift.
• Actively embracing AI coding.
• Comfortable with build automation tools such as Gradle, Maven, and npm.
• Competency with (RedHat) Linux.
• Spring framework skills are advantageous.
• Ansible skills are advantageous.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $145,000.00 – $175,000.00 annually. This range represents the good-faith minimum and maximum salary the Company believes it would pay for this role at the time of this posting. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, geographic location, internal equity, and business needs.

Benefits

As a diverse, woman-owned global business, we pride ourselves on keeping talent happy—our 7% attrition rate speaks volumes. Bring your talented friends along and earn a referral bonus.