SRE Engineer - Vice President

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Job description

SRE Engineer - Vice President

My client a PRE IPO Fintech firm offering spectacular benefits, rated Forbes top place to work 5 years in a row is growing leaps and bounds. These are growth roles due to expansion.

About the Role

This Vice President role will utilize advanced cloud capabilities to facilitate the Platform Infrastructure strategy of market agility and lean operating principles with a strict focus on quality to meet the ever-growing demands of our clients. This Platform Infrastructure Engineer will wear multiple hats in a highly visible role, interacting with all aspects of the business is essential.

Responsibilities

Build highly available solutions across the entire SDLC stack with primary focus on an internet facing fintech site.

Develop and maintain tools to support the development environment on MacOS and Linux tool environment with focus on improving developer productivity.

Maintain site reliability with a focus on building highly scalable systems, integrating resiliency and high availability at all levels.

Develop software and tooling to secure and automate cloud infrastructure building software delivery capabilities with fully automatic workflows.

Design and operation of a Kubernetes environment for container management and orchestration.

Participate in on-call rotations to help understand the system while helping build tools for automation.

Qualifications

10+ years of DevOps, TechOps, or SRE experience with 5+ years of AWS experience

Microservices (Docker, Kubernetes) experience in a production environment strongly desired

Strong Linux OS-level and command-line/scripting knowledge and configuration management principles

Working knowledge of databases such as MongoDB, Postgres, DynamoDB

Experience in architecting, implementing, and managing monitoring tools such as Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch, Splunk, NewRelic and ELK in the cloud

Coding beyond simple scripting with strong opinions on maintainable/reusable code in Python, Ruby, or Java desired

Experience with computer provisioning on a Cloud based platform using Terraform and/or Cloud formation

Experience with distributed systems design, maintenance, and hands-on troubleshooting/debugging skills

Exceptional analytical skills, able to apply knowledge and experience in decision-making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions

Experience building a Microservice based architecture

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Experience in updating runbooks, tools, and documentation that help the team to respond to incidents proactively

Able to design and implement complex, but easily managed, automated infrastructure

A desire to share, teach, and learn as part of a team

AWS certifications are a plus

Benefits

The base salary range for this role is $180,000 to $210,000 + bonus and stock options.

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