Service Reliability Engineer
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Job Description
The Service Reliability Engineer role will be responsible for the day to day performance analysis of Enterprise Payments Platform systems supporting Pulse, Discover and DCI network lines of business. They are subject matter experts on performance, analytical initiatives, and the operation of the core systems supporting the service. Responsible for solving performance problems by leveraging techniques such as optimization, process improvement, task automation, capacity models, and analytics. The Service Reliability Engineer is skilled at automating reports and processes. They work closely with both application development teams and operations teams to deliver best in class services to DFS end customers.
The preferred candidate has high standards of accuracy when performing analysis and enjoys finding the root cause of performance issues. Enjoys working within a team in a fast paced environment and influencing the long term direction of our solutions. The Capacity and Performance Management team typically involves the engagement of resources across multiple business and technical units, so a broad business/technical engagement background is highly desired.
What You’ll Do
- Handle responsibilities for operational stability and performance of one or more critical business services used by Discover customers and employees.
How You’ll Do It
Operational stability and performance
- Work with other members of their assigned value stream to ensure that in-scope applications/platforms are meeting performance and stability requirements. This includes managing major incidents to mitigation/resolution.
Problem management:
- Perform post-incident reviews of all major incidents and determine action items required to avoid similar issues/minimize downtime for future incidents.
Monitors and metrics:
- Work with Application Development to ensure that assigned applications/platforms have appropriate monitoring and metrics in place to appropriately measure performance and stability.
Identify functional and non-functional improvements:
- Act as the Operations representative in value stream planning and prioritize sessions to ensure that operational needs of assigned applications/platforms are addressed as needed. Hold quarterly operational performance reviews with value stream management.
Release planning and coordination:
- Work with other members of his/her assigned value stream to ensure that the production releases for their in scope applications/platforms are properly planned and coordinated. This includes Holds Change/Release implementation reviews to ensure thorough and appropriate implementation plans.
Review and sign-off/approval of change tickets for the assigned value stream:
- Represent the value stream at Change Advisory Board Meetings.
- Participate in Program Increment Planning Sessions as a liaison for Operations and Infrastructure support.
- Provide information regarding upcoming critical changes to the value stream.
Operational readiness:
- Ensure that applications/platforms in the value stream are operationally ready for production. This includes Annual Review of all SOPs/knowledge articles.
- Monitor review for any new feature launch or other significant change that may impact monitoring.
- Review SOP/knowledge article for any new feature launch or other significant change that may impact support documentation.
- Train Command Center and Application 1st level Support on new SOPs, knowledge articles, and any other support-related needs.
- Perform monthly capacity analysis of applications/platforms within the value stream. Create and maintain operationally focused ELK dashboards for the value stream.
Qualifications You’ll Need
The Basics
- Bachelor's degree in business or Information Technology or engineering or Social Sciences
- 2+ years of experience in Information Technology, or related experience
- In lieu of a degree, 4+ years of experience in Information Technology, or related experience
Bonus Points If You Have
- 4+ years of experience in technology, or related field
- 4+ years’ experience in Technology (Either Systems/Architecture, Infrastructure Services/Support, Analytics, Statistics, Modeling/Data Science or related field)
- Skilled in task and report automation
- Hands on experience working with Python, AppDynamics, SQL, Splunk, and Tableau.
- Develops dashboards to provide performance insights
- Completed end-to-end performance analysis that includes data gathering, analysis, ongoing scaled deliverables and presentations
- The applicant needs to be able to document solutions, processes and issues well and be able to present and facilitate technical discussions.
- Good communications skills to work with our business users and internal BT support teams #LI-BG1 #Remote
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