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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.

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