Site Reliability Engineer - Partnerize
Philadelphia, PA
About the Job
Who We Are:
The partnership channel offers scale and automation on a pay-for-performance model that delivers the operating leverage necessary for brand survival. Partnerize empowers marketers with technology built to discover, engage, and convert audiences, at scale, all while maintaining brand safety and control.
Why Join Us?
Our commitment to growing partnerships doesn't end with our clients. Our employees are carefully selected to be a part of our company because they emulate a carefully crafted and practiced set of core values that define us and our business. Joining Partnerize means joining a company that sincerely values your talent, expertise, and passion. We strive each day to hire and retain only the best. Doing so affords us the opportunity to be the best in the business, to exceed our clients' expectations, to innovate, to teach—and most importantly—to earn and maintain our clients' loyalty.
Job Overview
We are at a pivotal point in our tech progression. We're looking to grow the technical estate, replace existing systems with new and scale and develop the platform. It's an exciting time to join the team in this captivating period.
As an SRE you will be part of the Partnerize Technical Operations team, they work with the business, development and IT functions. You'll be building the infrastructure, delivering projects and processes required to ensure we remain available, scalable and secure. Involved in support, project delivery and maintenance activities completed by the Operational Team.
You should have a keen interest in problem-solving accompanied with experience in Linux systems, an understanding of web servers, basic database skills and have an interest in DevOps and systems administration.
We're looking for a mix of technical generalists, specialists, candidates that are new to IT or very experienced. For us, it's more about the person and the character than the role. We need people that will get excited about taking us to the next stage of our evolution helping us with their specific skills and experience but learning new ones along the way.
As an SRE at Partnerize, You Will:
- Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large, distributed software applications
- Measure and optimise system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve
- Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
- Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
- Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
- Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
- Work closely with development and tech teams ensuring technical Issues and projects are correctly managed.
- Deliver small and large technical projects in a prompt and timely manner.
- Act as an escalation for Support Incidents and assignments while maintaining a high level of quality
- Be responsible for continuous improvement, continuous delivery and continuous integration.
- Participate in the On-Call Rotation.
Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Experience of databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis)
- Understanding of scripting languages (Python, Bash, PHP)
- Knowledge of platform or application automated deployment and configuration management (Ansible, Docker, terraform etc)
- An awareness of AWS and other cloud infrastructure services
- Linux system administration skills.
- Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose and solve issues independently.
- Self-learner, ability to document learning as experience is gained.
- Experience as part of a team supporting and maintaining an infrastructure.
- A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks
- Ability to prioritise workload including occasional Incidents and Problem management
- Knowledge of and experience with the ITIL practices.
Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- An interest in development, new technologies and innovation
- Supporting development teams into the refactoring of technical debt
- Kubernetes, docker and containers
- Experience with monitoring systems, e.g. Zabbix, Nagios etc.
- Experience of JIRA and Confluence
- Nginx or web server technologies
- Gluster or storage technologies
- Git and version control
- Elasticsearch technologies - especially Kibana
- Experience with Apache Kafka and Druid
At Partnerize, we recognize it is unrealistic for a candidate to fulfil 100% of the criteria in this job description. We encourage you to apply if you feel you meet the majority requirements above. We know that skills evolve over time, so if you have a keen appetite to learn and evolve alongside us overtime, come join our team!
US Benefits & Perks
- Flexible Time Off Policy – Take the time you need
- Enhanced parental leave (16 weeks for birth parent, 8 weeks for non-birth parent at full pay)
- Regular company events and activities
- Robust Company Sponsored Health & Welfare Benefits
- 401k Plan – 4% employee match
- Enhanced Wellness Program including access to EAP, Wellness Coaching & Wellness Fridays program
Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
We are committed to attracting, developing, and advancing our outstanding team members, regardless of race, ethnic identity, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, gender identity, physical abilities, or any other dimension of diversity. We strive to foster an environment where people can be their authentic selves, raise concerns and innovate, all without fear; where they are treated fairly and respectfully, have equal access to opportunities and resources and can contribute fully to the organization's success. Every individual in our business is expected to live this commitment without exception.
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Notice to Recruiters and Staffing Agencies: To protect the interests of all parties, Partnerize will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate or an approved vendor that has a written and signed agreement in place with Partnerize. Please do not contact or forward resumes to our company employees or locations. Any unsolicited resumes will be considered Partnerize property. Partnerize is not responsible for any charges or fees related to unsolicited resumes.
