Site Reliability Engineer

at Spectraforce Technologies Inc. in ChicagoChicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Job Title: SRE App Support
Location: Chicago, Illinois 60602 (3 day onsite in a week)
Duration: 6-month possibility contract to hire (depending on budget and performance)
Minimum pay: $68/hr

Note from the Hiring Manager:

SRE" or "Site Reliability Engineer" can mean a lot of different things at different companies. For HM, he needs someone who is accountable for everything that happens in production. For this reason, he suggested we look for more "Support Engineer" or "Business Application Support Engineer" or "Senior Software Engineer" type resources.
"SRE cannot be an SRE in his world without knowing support work"

This person needs to be able to support business applications (not the platform) and will not work on non-production issues

Description:
We are searching for a candidate who has extensive experience in Site Reliability Engineering principles and culture, and who enjoys collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop real-world solutions and positive user experiences for every interaction. A person who can establish SRE best practices and supports App teams in maturing SRE principles and culture.

The Goals Driven Wealth Management platform is a showcase product for Client's Wealth Management business and we must demonstrate our ability to deliver and support innovative technology solutions. We count on our site reliability engineers to run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health.

Major Duties:
Develop and implement SRE best practices across the entire technology stack.
Collaborate with both application and infrastructure teams to establish reliability goals.
Design and maintain observability solutions for comprehensive monitoring.
Lead incident response and post-incident reviews, driving continuous improvement.
Manage Disaster Recovery exercises
Access review/Audit activity
Participate in capacity planning and performance optimization efforts. Work with senior staff and management on service delivery improvements

Knowledge/Skills:
Strong advocate for SRE principles and culture
Broad understanding of application and infrastructure components
Understanding of enterprise architecture patterns and best practices
Proficiency in incident response and post-mortem analysis
Experience in Terraform, Java, Springboot, Spring Framework, SQL/NoSQL databases
Knowledge of monitoring tools
Excellent oral and written communication skills are required
Highly flexible and adaptable to change
Analytical and problem solving skills
A positive goal orientated attitude with a focus on service delivery
Strong interest in working with business teams on issue resolution

Experience Required:
A College or University degree in Computer Science and/or relevant 8-10 years proven work experience.

About Us
Below is the brief introduction of SPECTRAFORCE, the benefits we offer and the disclaimers:
Established in 2004, SPECTRAFORCE is one of the largest and fastest-growing diversity-owned staffing firms in the US. The growth of our company is a direct result of our global client service delivery model that is powered by our state-of-the-art A.I. proprietary talent acquisition platform, robust ISO 9001:2015/ISO 27001 certified processes, and strong and passionate client engaged teams.
We have built our business by providing talent and project-based solutions, including Contingent, Permanent, and Statement of Work (SOW) services to over 130 clients in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and India. Key industries that we service include Technology, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Telecom, Retail, Utilities and Transportation.
SPECTRAFORCE is built on a concept of "human connection," defined by our branding attitude of NEWJOBPHORIA, which is the excitement of bringing joy and freedom to the work lifestyle so our people (and clients) can reach their highest potential. Our entire workflow and teams are trained to cultivate the joy of NEWJOBPHORIA with candidates and employees throughout their engagement with SPECTRAFORCE. http://www.spectraforce.com

Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, and hospital indemnity insurances. Additional benefits SPECTRAFORCE offers to the eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCEoffers unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.

Equal Opportunity... For full info follow application link.

SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at nahr@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.