Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Teksalt Solutions, you will have the opportunity to work with one of the leading financial services organizations in the US. Your role will involve managing the end-to-end application and system stack to ensure high reliability, scalability, and performance of distributed systems. By combining software engineering and systems engineering, you will be responsible for building and operating large-scale, fault-tolerant production environments. Key Responsibilities: - Engage in and enhance the software development lifecycle, covering design, development, deployment, operations, and refinement. - Design, develop, and maintain large-scale infrastructure, CI/CD automation pipelines, and build tools. - Influence infrastructure architecture, standards, and methods to support highly scalable systems. - Support services pre-production through infrastructure design, platform development, load testing, capacity planning, and launch reviews. - Maintain and monitor services in production by tracking key performance indicators such as availability, latency, and system health. - Automate scalability, resiliency, and system performance improvements. - Investigate and resolve performance and reliability issues across large-scale and high-throughput services. - Collaborate with architects and engineers to ensure scalable, maintainable applications following DR/HA strategies. - Create and maintain documentation, runbooks, and operational guides. - Implement corrective action plans focusing on sustainable, preventative, and automated solutions. Requirements: - Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience). - 8+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or in a similar role. - Strong hands-on expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP); experience with AWS is a plus. - Proficiency in DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and build tools (e.g., Jenkins). - Solid understanding of container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes). - Familiarity with configuration management and deployment tools (Chef, Octopus, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, etc.). - Strong cross-functional knowledge of systems, storage, networking, security, and databases. - Experience operating production environments at scale with a focus on availability and latency. - Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills. - Strong system administration skills on Linux/Windows, with automation and orchestration experience. - Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation). - Proficiency in CI/CD tools and practices. Preferred / Nice-to-Have: - Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems. - Passion for automation and eliminating manual toil. - Experience working in highly secure, regulated, or compliant industries. - Knowledge of security and compliance best practices. - Experience in DevOps culture, thriving in collaborative and fast-paced environments. (Note: No additional details about the company were provided in the job description) As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Teksalt Solutions, you will have the opportunity to work with one of the leading financial services organizations in the US. Your role will involve managing the end-to-end application and system stack to ensure high reliability, scalability, and performance of distributed systems. By combining software engineering and systems engineering, you will be responsible for building and operating large-scale, fault-tolerant production environments. Key Responsibilities: - Engage in and enhance the software development lifecycle, covering design, development, deployment, operations, and refinement. - Design, develop, and maintain large-scale infrastructure, CI/CD automation pipelines, and build tools. - Influence infrastructure architecture, standards, and methods to support highly scalable systems. - Support services pre-production through infrastructure design, platform development, load testing, capacity planning, and launch reviews. - Maintain and monitor services in production by tracking key performance indicators such as availability, latency, and system health. - Automate scalability, resiliency, and system performance improvements. - Investigate and resolve performance and reliability issues across large-scale and high-throughput services. - Collaborate with architects and engineers to ensure scalable, maintainable applications following DR/HA strategies. - Create and maintain documentation, runbooks, and operational guides. - Implement corrective action plans focusing on sustainable, preventative, and automated solutions. Requirements: - Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience). - 8+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or in a similar role. - Strong hands-on expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP); experience with AWS is a plus. - Proficiency in DevO