Sr. Site Reliability Engineer
Vertafore · Colorado, United States · 2 days ago
Engineering$110k–$145k/yrFull-time
About the role
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will own the reliability, scalability, performance, and operational integrity of critical production services. This role is accountable for the full-service lifecycle, from design and deployment readiness through production operations, incident response, and continuous improvement.
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.
- Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.
- Sitting and/or standing.