Site Reliability Engineering Architect

We Are Hiring: Site Reliability Engineering Architect
Location: Virtual/ Remote
What You Will Do: We are looking for Operations Architects who will ensure operational criteria like system availability, capacity, performance, monitoring, self-healing, and deployment automation are implemented throughout the delivery process. This is a key role in leading the DevOps transformation through our tooling and by being an advocate for change and standards throughout the development, quality, release, and product organizations, transitioning to a SRE organization. We are looking for SRE's who have an appetite for change and pushing the boundaries of what can be done with automation.

All About You

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services-from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement.
• Analyze ITSM activities of the platform and provide feedback loop to development teams on operational gaps or resiliency concerns
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Be familiar with Cloud principles and networking & security concepts in cloud
• Experience in working across development, operations, and product teams to prioritize needs and to build relationships is a must.
• ITIL - certification is a plus

Responsibilities:

• Implementing end to end enterprise DevOps solution using Agile and DevOps methodologies leading to faster, reliable deployments.
• Experience of Infrastructure as Code automation.
• Build, develop and maintain virtualisation automation, containerized automation, monitoring and logging
• Troubleshoot, resolve and assist in issues related to containerization, virtualization, monitoring, logging, CI and CD pipelines, builds and deployments
• Participate in automation initiatives driving change and efficiencies
• Mentor and share knowledge with other members of the team

Preferred Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent practical experience.
• Expert foundation in algorithms, data structures and core computer science concepts - able to teach/mentor others in their learning
• 10+ years of experience in multiple modern programming languages such as Java, Python, Ruby, Angular, Scala, NodeJS, etc.
• Expert level experience with monitoring tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, Kibana, Grafana
• Proficiency with cloud technologies (IaaS, PaaS, serverless technology, NoSQL databases), microservice design, CI/CD, DevOps
• Experience designing scalable fault tolerant platforms that are resilient to infrastructure failures
• Expert in using at least one of the industry leading Cloud Technologies like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.
• Expert in using at least one of the industry leading SQL/NoSQL Databases like Oracle, Cassandra, MongoDB and Distributed caching like Redis, Hazelcast, Memcached etc

What You Will Need: Education:

• High school diploma/GED with 2 years of experience, or Associate's degree, or Bachelor's degree required.

Work Experience:

• 3 years of experience preferred.

Why Join Our Team: Ascension is a faith-based healthcare organization dedicated to transformation through innovation across the continuum of care. As one of the leading non-profit and Catholic health systems in the U.S., Ascension is committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all. In FY2020, Ascension provided $2.4 billion in care of persons living in poverty and other community benefit programs. Ascension includes more than 160,000 associates and 40,000 aligned providers across a national network of ministries. We offer rewarding careers across more than 2,600 sites of care - including 146 hospitals and more than 50 senior living facilities - in 19 states and the District of Columbia.
Equal Employment Opportunity Employer: Ascension Technologies is an equal opportunity employer (EEO) and affords equal opportunity to all associates and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic data, or other legally protected status. For further information regarding your EEO rights, click on the following link to the "EEO is the Law" poster:

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