Site Reliability Engineer III

Job Description

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll bridge the gap between software development and operations, applying software engineering principles to infrastructure and operations problems. You'll help design, build, and maintain the systems that keep our services reliable and scalable while working closely with development teams to improve application performance and resilience.

• Design, implement, and maintain reliable infrastructure systems with a focus on security, scalability, reliability, and automation using tools like Terraform or Cloud Formation
• Build and maintain scalable and resilient production systems with a focus on automation
• Develop and implement monitoring solutions to ensure system health, performance, and availability
• Lead incident response, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventative measures
• Track SLOs, and SLAs to measure and improve service reliability and error budgets to drive reliability improvements
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid and reliable software delivery
• Partner with development teams to improve application performance, resilience, and scalability
• Contribute to capacity planning and performance optimization initiatives
• Participate in an on‑call rotation to support production systems
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the growth of the team
• Develop and evolve security monitoring, alerting, and incident response frameworks

• 10+ years of experience in SRE, Dev Ops, or similar roles
• Expertise in incident management, disaster recovery, and building resilience engineering frameworks
• Strong programming skills in at least one language such as Java, or Python
• Extensive experience with Linux/Unix systems administration
• Hands‑on experience with serverless (Lambda) and containerization technologies (Docker)
• Experience implementing and managing cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure Dev Ops)
• Advanced understanding of networking concepts, load balancing, security best practices, and CDN technologies
• Strong experience with observability systems (like Dynatrace)
• Knowledge of database technologies and their performance characteristics
• Demonstrated experience leading incident response and post‑mortem analysis
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience
• Deep knowledge of infrastructure‑as‑code tools (Terraform, Cloud Formation)
• Mastery of CI/CD pipeline design and implementation (Jenkins, Git Lab CI, Azure Dev Ops)
• Experience building and maintaining comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems
• Experience managing high‑traffic, mission‑critical production environments
• Strong background in capacity planning and performance optimization
• Proven ability to mentor junior SREs and elevate team capabilities
• Experience driving cross‑team initiatives to improve reliability practices
• Track record of successfully advocating for and implementing architectural improvements
• Strong incident management skills, including crisis communication

For over 50 years, Verisk has been the leading data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry by delivering value to our clients through expertise and scale. We empower communities and businesses to make better decisions on risk, faster.

At Verisk, you'll have the chance to use your voice and build a rewarding career that's as unique as you are, with work flexibility and the support, coaching, and training you need to succeed.

For the eighth consecutive year, Verisk is proudly recognized as a Great Place to Work® for outstanding workplace culture in the US, fourth consecutive year in the UK, Spain, and India, and second consecutive year in Poland. We value learning, caring and results and make inclusivity and diversity a top priority. In addition to our Great Place to Work® Certification, we’ve been recognized by The Wall Street Journal as one of the Best‑Managed Companies and by Forbes as a World’s Best Employer and Best Employer for Women, testaments to the value we place on workplace culture.

We’re 7,000 people strong. We relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation. And we are looking for people like you to help us translate big data into big…