Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

About the role

The role is accountable for the full-service lifecycle of critical production services, owning end-to-end services from design and deployment readiness through production operations, incident response, and continuous improvement. Reliability is a core engineering responsibility, requiring strong software engineering skills and autonomous operation across AWS, hybrid data centers, and customer-hosted environments.

Responsibilities

• Own production services end to end.
• Accountable for reliability, availability, scalability, performance, and operational health.
• Define and manage SLIs and SLOs, using error budgets to guide delivery decisions.
• Influence service and system design to improve fault tolerance, observability, and operational sustainability.
• Debug complex production issues across application code, services, and infrastructure using software engineering practices.
• Perform root cause analysis using logs, metrics, traces, and code-level investigation.
• Build automation and self-healing mechanisms to prevent repeat failures.
• Execute production changes (patching, certificate management, software releases) with safety, automation, and observability.
• Design and operate production observability aligned to service health and customer impact.
• Lead and participate in incident response, for high-severity events.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, architecture, and operations teams.
• Operate with autonomy and sound judgment in reliability decisions.

Qualifications & Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on Site Reliability Engineering or reliability-focused engineering experience with end-to-end service ownership.
• Proven operation at a senior engineering scope with accountability for reliability outcomes.
• Strong software engineering skills in C#, .NET, Java, Python, React, or similar technologies.
• Practical experience applying SRE principles (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets).
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure as code and hybrid environments.
• Strong knowledge of Linux and Windows systems, application platforms, and relational databases.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• Participation in an on-call rotation; flexible hours as required.

Additional Requirements And Details

• High speed internet to accommodate working from home needs.
• Occasional travel to our office location is required.
• Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds.
• Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.).
• Frequent sitting and/or standing.

THE VERTAFORE STORY

Over the past 50 years, Vertafore has advanced the entire insurance distribution channel with the best software solutions in the industry. Today, we’re proud to say hundreds of thousands of Vertafore users rely on our solutions to write business faster, reduce costs, and fuel growth by increasing collaboration and streamlining processes. Vertafore leads the industry with secure, cloud-based mobile products that provide superior reporting and analytics, delivering actionable insight—right when customers need it most. We partner with other leading technology companies to deliver comprehensive solutions to improve the way our customers do business and serve their customers. The Vertafore Way Insurance is about relationships, and technology should make those relationships stronger. That’s why, at Vertafore, it’s our mission to transform the way the industry operates by putting people at the heart of insurance technology. By focusing on our customers, becoming better every day, and delivering results you can see, we provide the level of trust and security that insurance is all about.