Site Reliability Engineer

Position Summary

Purpose Financial is looking for a talented, result-oriented, innovative Site Reliability Engineer to join the team!

Job Responsibility

• Infrastructure & Cloud Operations
• Develop and maintain reliable, repeatable processes by leveraging Terraform infrastructure as code and associated pipelines while adhering to AWS best practices.
• Create, configure, and optimize Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes/EKS/Rancher in AWS.
• Manage system architecture, reliability, and perform root cause analysis of equipment, process, and service failures in both AWS and on-premises environments.
• Participate in technical capacity planning and forecasting.
• CI/CD & Automation
• Establish and maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes using Kubernetes/Rancher CD and GitHub Actions.
• Contribute to team improvement initiatives and projects, including process improvements, testing tools, and automation.
• Monitoring & Reliability
• Utilize system and application monitoring tools such as Elastic Cloud to support and improve System performance.
• Participate in an On-Call rotation.
• Collaboration & Culture
• Foster a collaborative and communicative culture between Development and Operations by implementing automation and instrumentation to minimize risk, increase productivity, and scale efficiently.
• Mentor and train team members as well as developers when needed.
• Attend engineering, customer, and business meetings as required.
• Documentation & General
• Maintain technical documentation and procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education Required

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, Computer Science, other relevant fields, or equivalent related work experience.

Experience Required

• 5+ years in a DevOps / SRE role supporting CI/CD and Agile development in production environments
• 5+ years of designing, implementing, and operating scalable AWS infrastructure
• 2+ years building and managing CI/CD deployment pipelines
• 2+ years working with containerized workloads in Kubernetes/EKS

Knowledge Required

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Adaptability and flexibility to changing environment
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, high volume, fast-paced environment
• Ability to understand and ensure compliance with policies, procedures, and laws governing our industry/business and products

Physical Requirements

• Sitting for long periods of time; standing occasionally; walking; bending; squatting; kneeling; pushing/pulling; reaching; twisting; frequent lifting of less than 10 lbs., occasional lifting of up to 20 lbs.; driving and having access during the workday to an insured and reliable transportation; typing; data entry; grasping; transferring items between hands and/or to another person or receptacle; use of office equipment to include computers; ability to travel to, be physically present at, and complete the physical requirements of the position at any assigned location.

Competencies

• Travel: 0-10% travel depending on location
• Attire: Business Casual
• Other: None specified

Core Technologies

• AWS Cloud infrastructure and foundational cloud services
• Infrastructure as code utilizing Terraform
• Git, GitHub Actions, hooks, and APIs
• Programming and Scripting languages (ex. Python, Go, Bash)
• Kubernetes/EKS/Rancher
• Linux Operating System
• CI/CD & DevOps: Agile development in CI/CD environments, DevOps best practices in an HA environment

Familiarity with the Following is a Plus

• Networking
• Storage technologies
• High availability architecture
• System monitoring tools (Elastic Stack, CloudWatch)
• Application Performance Monitoring tools (Elastic Stack APM)

Requisition ID

46210