Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Patterson
Saint Paul, MN 55199
Posted 9 months ago
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Job Type(s)
Full Time
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Industry
Engineering
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Job Description
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)
Patterson isn't just a place to work, it's a partner that cares about your success.
One of the distinguishing marks of our company is the talented people who embrace the people-first, always advancing, and results-driven culture. Professional growth abounds in this motivating environment. We value the diverse talents and experiences our employees bring to Patterson and believe that they build a stronger and successful organization.
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is responsible for continuous improvement of availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning. The role drives continuous improvement in delivery of resilient, scalable, performant, secure, and high-quality cloud-native services. Collaborating with development teams and individuals the SREidentifies cross-team issues which create risk for operations across the organization and resolving those issues with a mixture of engineering, troubleshooting expertise, and general operational guidance. You will proactively drive improvement of enterprise cloud capabilities while creating best practices and tools to empower developers to create, deploy, and operationally support services.
Essential Functions
Educate yourself and others on anything that helps service teams more quickly and easily build, test, deploy & run their services to be more reliable
Plan, design, deploy, and operate Site Reliability Engineering capabilities for cloud products & services
Recognize and address sub-standard performance based on key performance indicators (KPIs)
Build monitoring that alerts on symptoms rather than outages
Continuously build, automate, and improve upon capabilities that are secure, scalable, performant, and resilient
Work closely with Infrastructure, Network, Security, Architecture, Development teams and other DevOps team members to build highly performing, scalable, and secure Azure environments
Define needs by documenting processes; includes research, planning and writing supporting documentation
Additional Functions
In addition to the essential functions listed above, the incumbent may perform the following additional functions.
Participate in regulatory and compliance activities as necessary
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Management Information Sciences or area of functional responsibility preferred, or equivalent years of industry work experience
5+ years in software or operations engineering
2+ years of DevOps or Site Reliability engineering or similar experience with cloud-native solutions
Proven experience in DevOps culture and site reliability engineering focused on the customer, CI/CD, cross-functional autonomous teams, and continuous improvement
DevOps experience with a cloud-native web application hosted in one of the three major cloud platforms
Interacts with vendors and service providers to resolve complex system related problems
Experience managing infrastructure as code via tools such as Terraform
Familiarity with version control systems e.g., Git, SVN, CVS
Experience in designing and implementing a continuous integration pipeline (CICD)
Experience in monitoring infrastructure, application uptime, latency, and performance on large distributed systems
Exhibit proficiency at troubleshooting various cloud and system related issues
Experience managing infrastructure as code via tools such as Terraform
Demonstrable cross-functional knowledge with systems, storage, networking, security, and databases
Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization
Preferred Qualifications
A passion for automation with a desire to eliminate toil wherever possible
Proven experience with application performance monitoring tools (Dynatrace, AppDynamics)
Microsoft Azure experience
Office environment either in Patterson facility or at home/remote location
Travel to corporate sites is periodically required (Quarterly or so)
Periodic on call rotations and available outside of normal business hours on evenings and weekends during critical production release or issue escalation periods
The potential compensation range for this role is below. The final offer amount could exceed this range, based on various factors such as candidate location (geographical labor market), experience, and skills.
$130,000 - $150,000
What's In It For You:
We provide competitive benefits, unique incentive programs and rewards for our eligible employees:
Full Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits and an integrated Wellness Program.
401(k) Match Retirement Savings Plan.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
Paid Time Off (PTO).
Holiday Pay & Floating Holidays.
Volunteer Time Off (VTO).
Educational Assistance Program (Tuition Reimbursement).
Full Paid Parental and Adoption Leave.
LifeWorks (Employee Assistance Program).
Patterson Perks Program.
EEO Statement
EOE, including disability/vets.
We are Patterson. We welcome you.
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Job Benefit(s)
Employee Assistance Program Paid time off Stock Purchase Plan Tuition Reimbursement