Senior SRE Engineer
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Finalsite is the preferred website, communications, enrollment, and marketing platform of more than 7,000 schools and school districts in 119 countries around the world. The company’s people, products and services transform how schools connect and engage with their community, recruit students and staff, and fundraise; while managing the complex requirements around data privacy, accessibility, hosting and security. Finalsite products and services include award-winning website designs, a robust content management system, mass communications tools, a powerful enrollment management system, innovative inbound marketing tools, data integration, training, support and marketing consulting. Finalsite is headquartered in Glastonbury, CT, USA with employees who work remotely in nearly every state in the U.S. as well as Europe, South America, and Asia. For more information, please visit www.finalsite.com.
VISION
Finalsite will transform the way school communities engage with their schools. SUMMARY OF THE ROLE
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will be a key advocate for the health, observability, and maintainability of our production environment and its associated components. The ideal candidate possesses a background in both software development and systems skills, grounded in computer science fundamentals.
LOCATION
100% Remote - Anywhere within the US
RESPONSIBILITIES
Evangelism Skills: Ability to articulate site reliability concepts in both business and technical terms, fostering stakeholder buy-in for key metrics like SLIs/SLOs.
Fault Tolerance: Deep understanding of fault tolerance in software and systems, with expertise in discussing architectural design patterns.
Automation Mindset: Strong desire to automate tasks, employing infrastructure as code and tooling to eliminate toil.
Curiosity: Natural curiosity to understand why and how things work, going beyond functionality to comprehend the underlying mechanisms.
Total Ownership: Willingness to take ownership, investigate unfamiliar areas, and contribute from browser to persistence layer, with solid debugging skills.
Architectural Thinking: Understanding of distributed computing fundamentals, striving for system resilience, self-healing, and reduced human intervention.
QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS
Experience: Minimum 4-6 years in DevOps, SRE, Systems, or software development roles.
Email Delivery Experience: Deep understanding of email delivery - SMTP, SPF, DKIM, DMARC is a must.
Cloud Expertise: Extensive experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
Containerization Knowledge: Deep understanding of workload orchestration and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker).
Automation Skills: Proficiency in scripting (Bash, Ruby, Python) and infrastructure as code (Terraform).
CI/CD Experience: Familiarity with CI/CD platforms like GitLab or Jenkins.
Proven Track Record: Demonstrated success in supporting critical production systems with minimal downtime.
Networking Basics: Basic understanding of networking components, including routing, DHCP, and DNS.
Availability: Willingness to participate in our 24x7x365 on-call rotation.
Mentorship Experience: Previous experience mentoring both developers and junior engineers.
Bonus Points: Interest in Helm/Kapitan, exposure to Ruby on Rails and interest and knowledge with Golang, specifically within the context of the Kubernetes API
Link to All Staff Competencies and Mental and Physical Requirements
RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT
Finalsite offers 100% fully remote employment opportunities, however, these opportunities are limited to permanent residents of the United States. Current residency, as well as continued residency, within the United States is required to obtain (and retain) employment with Finalsite.
DISCLOSURES
Finalsite is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact Finalsite's People Operations Team. Finalsite is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Finalsite will ensure that persons with disabilities or special needs are provided a reasonable accommodation. Ensure your Finalsite job offer is legitimate and don't fall victim to fraud. Ask your recruiter for a phone call or other type of verbal communication and ensure all email correspondence is from a finalsite.com email address. For added security, where possible, apply through our company website at finalsite.com/jobs
Senior SRE Engineer
To see similar active jobs please follow this link: Remote System Administration jobs
Finalsite is the preferred website, communications, enrollment, and marketing platform of more than 7,000 schools and school districts in 119 countries around the world. The company’s people, products and services transform how schools connect and engage with their community, recruit students and staff, and fundraise; while managing the complex requirements around data privacy, accessibility, hosting and security. Finalsite products and services include award-winning website designs, a robust content management system, mass communications tools, a powerful enrollment management system, innovative inbound marketing tools, data integration, training, support and marketing consulting. Finalsite is headquartered in Glastonbury, CT, USA with employees who work remotely in nearly every state in the U.S. as well as Europe, South America, and Asia. For more information, please visit www.finalsite.com.
VISION
Finalsite will transform the way school communities engage with their schools. SUMMARY OF THE ROLE
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will be a key advocate for the health, observability, and maintainability of our production environment and its associated components. The ideal candidate possesses a background in both software development and systems skills, grounded in computer science fundamentals.
LOCATION
100% Remote - Anywhere within the US
RESPONSIBILITIES
Evangelism Skills: Ability to articulate site reliability concepts in both business and technical terms, fostering stakeholder buy-in for key metrics like SLIs/SLOs.
Fault Tolerance: Deep understanding of fault tolerance in software and systems, with expertise in discussing architectural design patterns.
Automation Mindset: Strong desire to automate tasks, employing infrastructure as code and tooling to eliminate toil.
Curiosity: Natural curiosity to understand why and how things work, going beyond functionality to comprehend the underlying mechanisms.
Total Ownership: Willingness to take ownership, investigate unfamiliar areas, and contribute from browser to persistence layer, with solid debugging skills.
Architectural Thinking: Understanding of distributed computing fundamentals, striving for system resilience, self-healing, and reduced human intervention.
QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS
Experience: Minimum 4-6 years in DevOps, SRE, Systems, or software development roles.
Email Delivery Experience: Deep understanding of email delivery - SMTP, SPF, DKIM, DMARC is a must.
Cloud Expertise: Extensive experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
Containerization Knowledge: Deep understanding of workload orchestration and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker).
Automation Skills: Proficiency in scripting (Bash, Ruby, Python) and infrastructure as code (Terraform).
CI/CD Experience: Familiarity with CI/CD platforms like GitLab or Jenkins.
Proven Track Record: Demonstrated success in supporting critical production systems with minimal downtime.
Networking Basics: Basic understanding of networking components, including routing, DHCP, and DNS.
Availability: Willingness to participate in our 24x7x365 on-call rotation.
Mentorship Experience: Previous experience mentoring both developers and junior engineers.
Bonus Points: Interest in Helm/Kapitan, exposure to Ruby on Rails and interest and knowledge with Golang, specifically within the context of the Kubernetes API
Link to All Staff Competencies and Mental and Physical Requirements
RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT
Finalsite offers 100% fully remote employment opportunities, however, these opportunities are limited to permanent residents of the United States. Current residency, as well as continued residency, within the United States is required to obtain (and retain) employment with Finalsite.
DISCLOSURES
Finalsite is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact Finalsite's People Operations Team. Finalsite is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Finalsite will ensure that persons with disabilities or special needs are provided a reasonable accommodation. Ensure your Finalsite job offer is legitimate and don't fall victim to fraud. Ask your recruiter for a phone call or other type of verbal communication and ensure all email correspondence is from a finalsite.com email address. For added security, where possible, apply through our company website at finalsite.com/jobs