Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - SSP

Title: Sr.Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Nashville, TN area (remote to start)
Duration: 6 month contract, extendable

A Senior Site Reliability Engineer is a role that is responsible for transforming traditional IT operations by utilizing software engineering practices allowing for increased colleague efficiency and environment performance. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, architecting, and implementing innovative systems and processes that create visibility into the performance of critical environments, remediate issues before they arise, and influence the overall success of IT initiatives. By providing your expertise in software engineering practices, you will be improving experience at the enterprise and colleague level through the automation of key processes. In addition to your technical expertise, you will serve as a role model and leader to other team members, providing your technical guidance as they learn and progress.

Responsibilities

• Designs and implements automated systems to provision, configure, and update VMs, containers, and other virtual infrastructure Architects, builds, and improves an innovative observability platform that collects and aggregates IT services metrics allowing for real time analysis and automated response to environment stability issues before they arise
• Collaborates with other engineering teams to design scalable and sustainable systems architectures
• Guides and instructs software engineering teams on exposing appropriate data points to provide clear availability and performance metrics
• Builds software to increase efficiency among other colleagues or improve external customer experience
• Utilizes software engineering and DevOps engineering experience to maintain and improve environment stability and performance
• Exposes forecasted capacity and cost for data center or cloud infrastructure resources allowing for capacity planning and budgeting
• Engineers solutions to reduce infrastructure costs utilizing both on premises and cloud resources
• Mentors other team members and guides them in the execution of their duties
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as required, assigned, or requested.

Qualifications

• Education required: Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Years of experience required: 3-5 years experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps engineering, or software engineering
• Works to achieve operational targets, which has impact on the overall achievement of results for the team and the department
• Work is completed with minimal supervision with review other other s work
• Influences others within and outside of job function, and may communicate with external stakeholders
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong capability in architecting highly available, scalable systems supporting enterprise applications and teams

The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. The Company will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, citizenship, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or marital status, or any other class protected by law. To comply with applicable laws ensuring equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability, the Company will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant or an employee unless undue hardship to the Company would result.