Site Reliability Engineer III (Principal Level) - Ledgent Technology

We are seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer for a project with our client. The client is in the life insurance industry and the position is contract to hire. You can work remotely or a hybrid schedule.

LEAD SRE

As a Lead SRE you will be providing technical leadership, direction and accountability for platform engineering, system design and end-to-end implementation to meet and exceed the product or platform non-functional requirements including quality, security, reliability, availability and performance. The main responsibilities include, but are not limited to, optimizing design and engineering for new system and enhancements, including processes and day to day activities, to reliably support product rollout and operation in production. As a lead SRE, the role will include both oversight for production operations of our portfolio of systems, as well as development/engineering of solutions to optimize system reliability and automation.

How you'll help move us forward:

• Lead the design, build and implement orchestration and tooling solutions to ensure that repetitive administration tasks are performed at a high level of efficiency and free of defect
• Establish best practices for structuring, automating, building, deploying and monitoring complex distributed software products and environments.
• Ensure the reliability and traceability of software releases and deployments of software and infrastructure changes.
• Create and maintain platform architecture and design specifications to aid development, testing and maintenance of software environments
• Design and implement monitoring and recovery tools to provide for site high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR)
• Design and develop highly available infrastructure and platform components to meet the needs of our growing and evolving product lines
• Design and implement security engineering best practices in all our deployed platform and environments
• Triage alerts & diagnose/resolve critical issues, manage the implementation of changes
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, or military or veteran status. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with state and local laws, including the California Fair Chance Act, City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. For unincorporated Los Angeles county, to the extent our customers require a background check for certain positions, the Company faces a significant risk to its business operations and business reputation unless a review of criminal history is conducted for those specific job positions.