Senior Site Reliability Engineer

The Role

The YouVersion Senior Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for ensuring the integrity, performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of the cloud-based infrastructure and related systems supporting the applications and platforms operated by Life.Church.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain software to automate and support infrastructure operations and ensure seamless deployments.
• Explore and evaluate solutions to meet business needs that lead to implementing solutions and evaluating the outcome.
• Limit system downtime by defining and enforcing operations and development standards.
• Perform regular maintenance and monitoring for cloud infrastructure systems and services.
• Maintain application performance and service-level indicators to ensure that objectives are met.
• Respond and initiate incident responses for high-severity site reliability issues.
• Implement and enforce infrastructure and application security controls.
• Research new solutions, improvement areas, and best-practices.
• Define, document, and enforce processes and standards around cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices.
• Develop and train Site Reliability Engineers on technologies and best practices.
• Maintain and steward infrastructure and development-related costs.
• Interact with product vendors to evaluate solutions and negotiate contract agreements.

Requirements

• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills in order to maintain relationships and partnerships.
• Maintain a systematic and organized approach to completing assignments accurately, thoroughly, and timely.
• Clearly explain complicated and detailed processes in a concise and simple way.
• Ability to self-motivate, take initiative, make independent decisions, and problem-solve.
• Ability to collaborate in a team environment and work independently.
• Strong leadership skills and understanding on developing and guiding others.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED.
• 7+years of related work experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science preferred.
• Professional certifications in cloud engineering programs preferred.

Skills

• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Maintain a systematic and organized approach to completing assignments accurately, thoroughly, and timely.
• Clearly explain complicated and detailed processes in a concise and simple way.
• Ability to self-motivate, take initiative, make independent decisions, and problem-solve.
• Ability to collaborate in a team environment and work independently.
• Strong leadership skills and understanding on developing and guiding others.

Benefits

• Paid parental leave, including maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
• Generous employer-paid leave for the use of vacation, sick time, and other qualifying reasons.
• Innovative and comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance.
• Life insurance policy provided for all staff members at 2x annual salary at no cost.
• Additional life insurance coverage is available to purchase.
• Short-Term and Long-Term disability is covered at 100% for full-time qualified staff members.
• Comprehensive wellness and mental health benefits.
• Grossly generous 401(k) retirement plan allowing a team member to have up to 12.5% (including employee contribution, employer match, and employer discretionary contribution) contributed into their account in their first year.
• $160 annually in development dollars for team members to invest in their professional growth.
• Casual dress and work environment.