Site Reliability Engineer II

At Early Warning, we've powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle , Paze , and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.

Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.

Overall Purpose

To create and maintain the next generation of application infrastructure and to be responsible for reliability, automation and scalability using and the latest best practices.

Essential Functions

• Implement software and tools to improve the performance - availability, scalability, and latency, while delivering end products to customer with the highest efficiency and meeting all security standards.
• Build automation and tooling around application management, such as deployments, configuration changes and disaster recovery scenarios.
• Implement and evangelize Observability and monitoring systems to proactively detect problems and identify cause.
• Evaluate capacity of the application on a continuous basis to provide stats to the Product/Business teams and recommend an efficient path to scale for future needs.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and work with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
• Implement standards across multiple disciplines, systems and practices to improve the overall application delivery.
• Work directly with application development teams to provide feedback and technical requirements to the software development lifecycle, implementing best-practice microservice design patterns and other modern software development approaches.
• Serve as a technical liaison for the application and provide documents and runbooks to Level 1 and Level 2 teams.
• Participate in 24 X 7 on-call rotation.
• Be a champion of excellent processes; take the initiative in developing repeatable patterns and standard, re-usable work across teams.
• Support the company's commitment to protect the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data

Minimum Qualifications

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent certifications.
• Minimum of 2 years prior Dev Ops, software engineering or related experience.
• Must be able to work different schedules as part of an on-call rotation.
• Ability to work on multiple projects and general understanding of software environments and network topologies
• Working and troubleshooting experience on Linux based applications
• Demonstrable technical design skills
• Demonstrable experience in modern application design
• Solid understanding of an iterative software development process
• Ability to use Unix/Linux command line programs and create/edit scripts
• Knowledge of one or more of the tools - Chef, Ansible, puppet.
• Knowledge of one or more of the tools - IAC, Containerization and orchestration (Terraform, Docker & Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of one of the cloud infrastructure providers - AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Azure
• Background and drug screen.

Preferred

• Good programming skills in one or more of the following languages:
  Java, ruby, python, JavaScript and GO
• Hands-on experience in supporting applications in a 24X7 customer-facing production environment.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD workflows
• Strong understanding and hands-on experience on TCP/UDP/IP protocols
• Working knowledge of AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Swarm

Physical Requirements

Working conditions consist of a normal office environment. Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours. Work may require occasional standing, walking, kneeling and reaching. Must be able to lift 50 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently. Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers.

Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers.

Employee must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation.

The base pay scale for this position in:
Phoenix, AZ/ Chicago, IL in USD per year is: $86,000 - $105,000.
San Francisco, CA in USD per year is: $103,000 - $126,000.
Additionally, candidates are eligible for a discretionary incentive plan and benefits.

This pay scale is subject to change and is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific candidate, which is always dependent on legitimate factors considered at the time of job offer. Early Warning Services takes…