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Our Client's IT team seeks a Site Reliability Engineer who will be responsible for designing and implementing monitoring solutions, performance optimization, automation, and cloud best practices. This individual will work closely with other architects, software engineers, platform engineers, business users, and other stakeholders to design and implement solutions that meet organizational needs and improve performance and reliability of applications. This role is critical to enable a standard, secure, scalable, resilient, and efficient application and infrastructure footprint within the cloud environment. The Site Reliability Engineer will also be expected to work collaboratively with others in IT and business to realize the full life cycle of system development projects, from requirements gathering to application design, coding, testing, delivery, support, and enhancements.

Primary responsibilities

The successful candidate will have extensive technical experience working with AWS cloud technologies, preferably for financial services firms, such as asset managers, hedge funds, and/or broker/dealers.

The new hire must lead by example and work collaboratively to:

· Design and maintain monitoring systems and dashboards

· Architect and manage cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure) with security, stability, and cost in mind

· Implement CI/CD pipelines for reliable software delivery

· Establish infrastructure as code practices using CDK, GitLab, AWS developer tools

· Contribute to application codebase to follow resiliency and performance best practices

· Ensure application architectures follow cloud best practices for reliability, security, performance, and efficiency

· Work with development teams to improve deployment processes and system reliability

· Collaborate with business owners to translate business requirements into technical solutions with an eye toward technology consistency and best practices

· Work with engineers, business users, and other stakeholders to understand their needs and ensure solutions align with business goals

· Maintain detailed documentation for reference architectures, design patterns, and system configurations

· Raise the bar on our development capabilities, standards, and processes

· Following a scrum methodology, organize with end users, business analysts, and other architects and developers

· Recommend positive steps toward standardizing development processes, including technology selection, deployment steps, code reviews, and IT tools

· Partner with development, QA, and AppSecOps teams to promote standardization, consistency, and improved security posture

Desired background

· At least 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles

· Bachelor of science in computer science or other related discipline (although strong experience with a less directly related degree will be considered)

· Strong experience in AWS Cloud technologies

· Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline tools (GitLab pipelines, Jenkins etc.)

· Understanding of monitoring and observability tools (ELK, Dynatrace, Datadog etc.)

· Experience with microservices, serverless architectures, and containerization

· Proficiency in AWS cloud platform including infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines

· Formal problem-solving and/or analytical training/experience a plus, as is experience working with management consultants

· Good intuition for end-user requirements gathering; iterative and collaborative approach to design

· Strong client relationship management skills and excellent written/verbal communication skills to interact at all levels