Site Reliability Engineer

We are looking for a motivated individual with proven development experience to work as a Site Reliability Engineer and member of a development team which builds and tests business software for a Life Insurance business. You will work with team members and business partners to implement complex on-prem and cloud applications as well as supporting infrastructures, and you will work in a modern DevOps environment.

We are currently sourcing for a Site Reliability Engineer to work in an Enterprise Infrastructure Group in Westlake, TX.

The Role

We are looking for a motivated individual with proven development experience to work as a Site Reliability Engineer and member of a development team which builds and tests business software for a Life Insurance business. You will work with team members and business partners to implement complex on-prem and cloud applications as well as supporting infrastructures, and you will work in a modern DevOps environment.

Team

Production Service Engineers in the Life Insurance domain support a wide landscape of business applications and are responsible for the stability and reliability of these platforms. This team plays a key role in initiatives to build and maintain insurance applications in the cloud.

The primary focus is production support. This is also an opportunity to be hands-on, as you will be embedded in the development squad to focus on coding, infrastructure-as-code, test automation, and process improvements. The team strives to eliminate toil and manual efforts in the overall software development process while creating high-quality working software.

The Expertise You Have

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Science, (or equivalent)
• Minimum 8 years of software engineering experience
• Hands-on Linux experience preferred (user and permissions management, file systems, performance tuning)
• Hands-on Experience in AWS compute and storage services (AWS Lambda, S3, Glue, Route 53 & IAM), Kubernetes
• Observability skills such as Datadog, Splunk, SLI/SLO and other tools.
• Some databases and using SQL (like Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, or Dynamo DB) required
• Proficiency with Data Processing and ETL (Control-M & Informatica)
• Experience with tools like: GIT, Maven, Jenkins, uDeploy, JIRA, Artifactory, Sonar.
• Proficiency with scripting languages like Python, Java, Bash or Power Shell preferred
• Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines using technology such as Groovy, Jenkins, JenkinsCore and Urbancode Deploy preferred
• Experience with ITSM (Incident, Change & Problem Management)
• Automation skills
• Excellent at communicating and building relationships across teams and technology partners
• Confidence to work independently and with minimum supervision

The Value You Deliver

• Work on the dev team to complete agile workflows
• Share knowledge while also learning from other expert engineers
• Relationship builder, participate in complex projects, sometimes across multiple squads, business partners and external vendors
• Effectively represent projects and team efforts at business venues, user groups, and to organizational leaders
• Actively participate in development and migration to cloud-centric solutions and participate in research efforts
• Work effectively in unstructured environments, anticipating impact of changes and providing quick resolution for high impact incidents
• Think creatively to identify and develop innovative, secure solutions which may not conform to traditional practices