Site Reliability Engineer

Purpose Financial, Inc. is an innovative consumer financial services company that offers a diverse suite of credit products, promoting financial inclusion and meeting consumers wherever they are. Through its brands, the company is committed to helping customers achieve their version of financial stability in the moment and in the future. Since 1997, Purpose Financial has been a pioneer in the consumer credit and financial services market offering money solutions in over 800 storefronts locations and online lending.

Providing services in over 23 states, Purpose Financial employs over 2,500 team members.

At Purpose Financial we are always on the lookout for motivated individuals who share in our values of mutual respect to join our team of outstanding professionals.

We offer:

• Competitive Wages
• 401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match
• Company Paid Holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Business Casual Environment
• Rewards & Recognition Program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Office in downtown Greenville that offers free parking, onsite gym, free snacks/drinks

Purpose Financial is looking for a talented, result-oriented, innovative Site Reliability Engineer to join the team!

This position reports to the Systems Integration Manager and is responsible for building and maintaining reliable infrastructure and deployment pipelines in AWS, leveraging Kubernetes/EKS and infrastructure as code. You will create and maintain tools, workflows, and standards that enable developers to ship code efficiently and reliably. This role includes participation in an On-Call rotation.

• Develop and maintain reliable, repeatable processes by leveraging Terraform infrastructure as code and associated pipelines while adhering to AWS best practices.
• Create, configure, and optimize Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes/EKS/Rancher in AWS.
• Manage system architecture, reliability, and perform root cause analysis of equipment, process, and service failures in both AWS and on-premises environments.
• Participate in technical capacity planning and forecasting.

• Establish and maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery (CICD) processes using Kubernetes/Rancher CD and Git Hub Actions.
• Contribute to team improvement initiatives and projects, including process improvements, testing tools, and automation.

• Utilize system and application monitoring tools such as Elastic Cloud to support and improve System performance.
• Participate in an On-Call rotation.
• Foster a collaborative and communicative culture between Development and Operations by implementing automation and instrumentation to minimize risk, increase productivity, and scale efficiently.
• Mentor and train team members as well as developers when needed.
• Attend engineering, customer, and business meetings as required.

• Maintain technical documentation and procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Bachelor's degree in information systems, Computer Science, other relevant fields, or equivalent related work experience.

• 5+ years in a Dev Ops / SRE role supporting CI/CD and Agile development in production environments
• 5+ years of designing, implementing, and operating scalable AWS infrastructure
• 2+ years building and managing CI/CD deployment pipelines
• 2+ years working with containerized workloads in Kubernetes/EKS

Excellent written and verbal communication skills; adaptability and flexibility to changing environment; and comfortable working in a dynamic, high volume, fast-paced environment. Ability to understand and ensure compliance with policies, procedures, and laws governing our industry/business and products.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Adaptability and flexibility in a changing environment
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, high-volume, fast-paced environment
• Ability to create detailed technical documentation
• Track record of collaborating in a matrix environment and leading by influence across functional and organizational lines
• Extensive experience evaluating, onboarding, and managing new technologies, services, and features
• Understanding of compliance with policies, procedures, and laws governing the industry, business, and products

Sitting for long periods of time; standing occasionally; walking; bending; squatting; kneeling; pushing/pulling; reaching; twisting; frequent lifting of less than 10 lbs., occasional lifting of up to 20 lbs.; driving and having access during the workday to an insured and reliable transportation; typing; data entry; grasping; transferring items between hands and/or to another person or receptacle; use of office equipment to include computers;

ability to travel to, be physically present at, and complete the physical requirements of the position at any assigned location.

Business Casual

The Site Reliability Engineer will work with a modern cloud infrastructure and deployment stack…