Site Reliability Engineer, 8am
$120-185k
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Professional business platform for client-focused professionals
Job no longer available
Professional business platform for client-focused professionals
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$120-185k
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower professionals with the most trusted, innovative technology to deliver world-class outcomes for their clients and exceptional financial results for their business.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional technical experience in software engineering, cloud operations or a related function
- 3+ years of experience within a DevOps or SRE role
- Documented experience provisioning and managing infrastructure in a public cloud environment such as AWS (preferred), Google Cloud Platform, or Azure
- Experience with Linux container technologies, such as Docker, OCI, LXC and ability to administer, build and deploy images in an automated manner
- Solid understanding of how a Kubernetes Platform operates (service discovery, deployments, monitoring, scheduling, load balancing)
- Proficiency in at least one, ideally more of the following programming or scripting languages: Ruby, Python, Java, Javascript (NodeJS), Bash
- Extensive experience utilizing Infrastructure as Code to provision and maintain infrastructure: Terraform (preferred), CloudFormation
- Experience with relational database systems such as MySQL (preferred) and PostgreSQL, to include understanding and optimizing SQL queries
- Experience with Kafka on an MSK environment is a strong plus
- Experience with ElasticSearch is a plus
- Experience implementing and maintaining CI pipelines using CircleCI (preferred), Jenkins, Github Actions, Gitlab, Azure Devops, etc
- Experience with Windows Server is a plus
- Solid understanding of networking concepts and how they are applied and controlled in a cloud environment
- Experience managing resources in a PCI controlled environment (highly preferred)
- An understanding and passion for developing highly secure and highly available systems
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
What the job involves
- AffiniPay is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help us build and maintain our next-generation platform.
- You will be a member of the newly created Platform Engineering Organization, which is responsible for the software delivery and infrastructure management focusing on availability, performance and security and core service layers supporting our core payments platform and practice management software.
- You will work closely with our development team to ensure they have the tools needed to build, test, and deploy code with ease and ensure developer and QA engineer success.
- You will engineer and maintain configuration management environments, software delivery pipelines, IaC processes, technical governance and observability tools among other areas of platform availability
- Automate deployment, monitoring, management, and incident response for 100% cloud based infrastructure
- Monitor site availability, stability and performance and resolve site issues and work with observability team to fine tune alerting, monitors and metrics
- Scale infrastructure to meet rapidly growing demand with attention to cost and customer usage patterns
- Monitor and evolve system performance leveraging observability metrics for decision making and case building of needed changes
- Participate in the design and implementation of robust disaster recovery solutions supporting company-defined restore point and time objectives
- Share in new feature design as the cloud SME supporting container/k8s first designs
- Collaborate with developers to bring new features and services into production while maintaining structure and standards for introducing new tech
- Develop and improve operational best practices and procedures
- Participate in an on-call rotation and provide emergency support outside of normally scheduled hours as needed
- Design, provision, and manage cloud infrastructure in AWS
- Propose standard methodologies for continuous integration and deployment, performance and health monitoring, and alerting
- Develop, implement and own internal tooling and automation as your product
Our take
Many professionals find their time taken up by administrative tasks and operational processes, leaving them fewer hours to focus on the work they love. 8am (formerly AffiniPay) supplies finance, payments and management software to make these processes swifter and easier, saving users precious time.
The company has a wide range of products including payments and reporting for accountants, legal case management software, and operations assistance for nonprofits. This broad scope allows 8am to serve a myriad of professionals across legal, accounting, construction, design and association.
The company has seen significant investment which has allowed it to grow, innovate and extend its suite of solutions. Its rebrand to 8am followed a series of acquisitions through which it expanded its scope - with the various products now delivered under one unified brand.
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Company
Company benefits
- Wide range of affordable, company-supported medical, dental, vision, and disability plans
- Reimbursements for whatever helps you bring the WOW, whether that’s health and wellness or learning
- Mental health support and an Employee Assistance Program
- Access to cutting-edge conferences, professional manager coaching and ongoing professional development
- Bonuses and unit options as part of our total rewards packages
- Team meetings, company-wide all-hands, and offsite events
- Office, remote & hybrid work options
Company HQ
Davenport Ranch West, Austin, TX
Leadership
Dru Armstrong
(CEO)Advisor for Women@Austin and Board Member at YPO. Former CEO of Grace Hill, and co-founded and was CEO at Lily Pod.
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