Senior Site Reliability Engineer at HAYS in Albany, New York

Job Description:

The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate's/applicant's qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position.


Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Visa sponsorship not available.


Our client is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in New York, NY.


Responsibilities


• Design and Implement: Create and maintain a scalable and reliable infrastructure to support our rapidly growing platform.
• Optimize and Scale: Enhance cloud environments (AWS) to efficiently handle increasing traffic and workloads.
• Performance Tuning: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in infrastructure, code, and database queries.
• Security Enhancement: Fortify platform, data, and infrastructure security.
• Proactive Monitoring: Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to swiftly detect and respond to system issues.
• CI/CD Improvement: Upgrade existing CI/CD pipelines to boost automated deployments and ensure high availability.
• Best Practices: Develop and enforce CI/CD pipelines with rigorous pre-deployment checks, including static code analysis,
security scanning, and performance testing, to minimize production issues.
• Incident Analysis: Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) of incidents and implement long-term fixes to prevent future outages.
• Collaborative Security: Work with security teams to strengthen authentication mechanisms and prevent bot attacks.
• Reliability Standards: Establish best practices for software reliability, incident response, and fault tolerance.
• Incident Management: Lead incident management efforts, including on-call rotations and post-mortem analysis.
Automated Testing: Design and maintain automated testing frameworks (unit, integration, and end-to-end tests) to catch •regressions early and ensure high code quality before deployment.


Skills & Requirements


• Experience: 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Cloud Expertise: Deep knowledge of cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
• Technical Skills: Experience with load balancing (ELB), auto-scaling, and distributed systems.
• Security Savvy: Strong understanding of networking, security best practices, and bot mitigation techniques.
• Observability Tools: Proficiency in tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk.
• CI/CD Knowledge: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Gi tops, and automated testing for reliability.
• Database Skills: Experience in SQL and NoSQL database performance tuning and optimization.
• Incident Response: Familiarity with incident response, post-mortem analysis, and resilience engineering.
• Problem-Solving: Excellent troubleshooting skills and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Team Player: Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment.


Benefits/Other Compensation:


Medical, Dental, Life Insurance, 401K.


Why Hays?


You will be working with a professional recruiter who has intimate knowledge of the industry and market trends. Your Hays recruiter will lead you through a thorough screening process in order to understand your skills, experience, needs, and drivers. You will also get support on resume writing, interview tips, and career planning, so when there's a position you really want, you're fully prepared to get it.


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Hays is committed to building a thriving culture of diversity that embraces people with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better we serve our candidates, clients, and employees. We are an equal employment opportunity employer, and we comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, genetic information, HIV-positive status, as well as any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. One of Hays' guiding principles is 'do the right thing'.
We also believe that actions speak louder than words.
In that regard, we train our staff on ensuring inclusivity throughout the entire recruitment process and counsel our clients on these principles. If you have any questions about Hays or any of our processes, please contact us.


In accordance with applicable federal, state, and local law protecting qualified individuals with known disabilities, Hays will attempt to reasonably accommodate those individuals unless doing so would create an undue hardship on the company. Any qualified applicant or consultant with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should call or text 813.336.5570.


Drug testing may be required; please contact a recruiter for more information.


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