Site Reliability Engineer Lead

Client: Wealth Management / Investment Firm

Position: Site Reliability Engineer Lead

Pay Rate: $170K - $190K

Locations: ON SITE Plano, TX or Camas, WA

The Opportunity:

The main accountabilities for this candidate is setting up Splunk/Dynatrace monitoring, working with the team to onboard the applications (have been uploading for the last 2 years), working with the Solutions Architect on Ansible automation and Mentoring Jr team members

Education: Bachelor's degree in MIS, computer science, math, or other science field required, advanced degree in a related field

MUST Have Experience:

• MUST BE USC or GC holder!!
• 10+ years overall experience in application engineering
• 5+ years of SRE experience (architect or engineer) with toolsets for Dynatrace and Splunk are a MUST
• In automation leveraging Ansible and Python which has just started about 2 months ago, so moving in that direction

Other Experience Desired:

• 3+ years' experience monitoring applications using various SDLC methodologies preferably Agile
• 3+ years of technology design expertise which includes Performance, Security, Availability, as well as Operations, Monitoring and Support
• 2+ years of experience in Relational database management skills like MSSQL, MySQL, SQL, PostgreSQL or MongoDB
• 2+ years of experience in any of the scripting languages like Unix Shell Scripting, Python, or PowerShell
• 2+ years of experience in technology design expertise which includes Containerization, Performance, Security, Availability, Operations, Monitoring, and Support
• Experience in Systems Architecture, in-depth knowledge on SRE, IT Operations, Cloud, Coding and Scripting experience with Java, JavaScript, python and .NET, understanding of AI/ML
• Experience in a regulated industry; financial services experience ideal

Responsibilities:

• Design, configure and sets up observability platform tools (Splunk and Dynatrace), both on-premises and cloud, to guide application development efficiencies and improve operational stability of the applications
• Work with Observability Manager and Architect to develop Monitoring capabilities strategy and Roadmaps and accomplish agreed upon priorities
• Develop tooling and processes to increase automation of monitoring and adherence to security and audit systems and controls
• Integrate and configure additional tools/frameworks to support and enable automation of various monitoring activities across the enterprise
• Perform analytics on incidents and usage patterns to better predict issues and take proactive actions
• Collaborate across the departments to gauge the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems
• Foster the adoption of Observability tools and capabilities across Technology groups
• Partner with Service owners to implement Service Level Metrics & Service Level Objectives that act as service level health indicators
• Measure, communicate and deliver on enterprise platforms stability, scalability and technology organizations maturity in DevOps
• Resolve issues, alerts, and incidents based on predefined service level agreements regarding system availability, performance, and service levels
• Analyze the monitoring requirements in close collaboration with the architect and translate them into tasks for engineers to develop.
• Deliver presentations to managers and other technology and business partners
• Be a mentor to engineers, providing assistance, guidance and training

Benefits:

100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for you and your qualifying dependents

A 50% 401(k) match, up to the IRS maximum

20 days of PTO, plus 10 paid holidays

Family Support programs including 8 week Paid Primary Caregiver Leave, $10,000 fertility, family forming, and hormonal health assistance, and back-up child, adult, and elder care