Site Reliability Engineer (Sre)

Company	Rit SolutionsSee more
Address	Windsor, CT
Form of work	Contractor
Category	Engineering/Architecture/scientific

Job description

H59 - Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

*MUST be Hybrid Onsite in Hartford, CT office.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a 6 month contract-to-hire opening and needs to meet Client full-time conversion policies.

Responsibilities:

Guide the use of best-in-class software engineering standards, tools, and design practices to enable highly available and performant customer-facing applications. Lead adoption of metrics of overall application health - availability, performance, monitoring, alerting, quality, currency and resiliency
Serve as key liaison between the architecture and software engineering teams to influence the technical strategy for the organization, keeping in mind its cross-functional impacts, integration across the organization, and architecture rationalization
Function as the go-to technical expert for the applications and infrastructure supported, requiring depth and breadth of knowledge in technologies, applications, integration, interfaces and business domain.
Develop effective tooling, alerts, and response mechanisms to identify and address reliability and security risks leveraging automation to support problem prevention, detection, mitigation, and resolution.
Enhance the velocity of the SDLC by engineering the appropriate solutions to increase delivery speed while adhering to technology standards for sustained reliability.
Progressively implement preventative controls and drive increased automation and self-healing capabilities. Continue to improve cost efficiency baselines.
Promote and implement innovative solutions.
Champion the applications to open source platforms, PaaS, containers, serverless, event-based designs, and other cloud technology standards for cloud-enablement and platform agility.
Drive simplification across the stack, responsible for ensuring that all technical designs can be effectively operated in a cost-efficient manner, without adding operational complexity
Drives inner- and open-sourcing practices to accelerate the development of self-service enterprise capabilities
Experience in setting up scalable SDLC environments using COTS, PaaS, SaaS products catering to Data, Application and Infrastructure-based pipeline needs
Ability to build solutions to promote migration of applications to open source platforms, PaaS and use of containers and other cloud technology standards for cloud-enablement and platform agility.
Ensure operational excellence. Independently drive the triaging and service restoration of all high impact incidents in order to minimize the mean time to service restoration and impact to the business. Demonstrate end-to-end ownership.
Partner with infrastructure teams to design and implement intelligent automation and orchestration systems, enhanced monitoring/alerting capabilities and rapid service restoration processes. Take proactive measures to prevent high impactful incidents.
Achieve and maintain the technical business continuity of Hartford and third-party assets that support customer-facing functions. Accountable for improving the IT application and infrastructure resiliency.
Accountable for the governance of overall D&A platform ecosystem with focus on process and solutions catering to Data masking (PII management), data lifecycle management needs

Qualifications:

System Thinking end-to-end - Understanding of enterprise architectures and complex (backend) systems 8
Understands underlying fundamentals and components of relevant systems.
Strong solution architecture orientation to enable expedient troubleshooting, issue-resolution and root-cause removal in a hybrid cloud environment.
Deep software and systems engineering expertise.
Hands-on development experience with Java stack – JSP, JSF, Spring, JMS, JDBC, Angular, .Net, Web Services, Weblogic and JBOSS.
Strong understanding of XML and XSLT. Knowledge of ACORD and WTX.
Hands on experience with continuous integration and DevOps methodologies, tools including GitHub, Jenkins, Nexus, Rally, SonarQube etc.
Hands on experience with Performance and Observability tools such as DynaTrace, SumoLogic, TrueSight, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS X-Ray, and related tools.
Keeps abreast with new market technologies and adept at learning and adopting new models. Promotes and applies continuous learning.
Strong hybrid cloud experience (private and public) across various service delivery models – IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.
Data engineering experience using COTS/Services/products catering to the D&A platform ecosystem spanning Data Integration, Virtualization and Data Management capabilities
Hands on experience with IAC tools such as Terraform, Cloud Formation etc
Highly collaborative, partners with peers, stakeholders with a passion about delighting customers.
Strong communicator within your organization and with key partners (verbal and written)
Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or related discipline
5+ years of work experience in IT systems analysis, design and/or application development
3+ years of experience in a Reliability Engineer, Multi Stack Engineer or Data Engineer role preferred