FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for over 200,000 investment professionals worldwide, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions.
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About the Role
We are looking for a skilled and motivated Principal Site Reliability Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems and services. You will work closely with development and operations teams to build and maintain robust infrastructure, automate processes, and drive engineering best practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor, maintain, and improve the reliability and availability of production systems
- Respond to and resolve incidents, conducting thorough post-mortems to prevent recurrence
- Define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs)
- Collaborate with development teams to build reliability into services from the ground up
- Design and implement automation to reduce toil and improve operational efficiency
- Participate in an on-call rotation to support critical systems
- Contribute to capacity planning and performance optimization efforts
- Document systems, processes, and runbooks to support the wider team
Minimum Experience:
- 8+ years’ experience ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems and services
Required Technical Skills
Kubernetes (Required)
- Hands-on experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting workloads in Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of core Kubernetes concepts including Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, and Ingress
- Experience with Kubernetes cluster management and administration
- Familiarity with Helm for application packaging and deployment
- Understanding of Kubernetes networking, storage, and security best practices
Additional Technical Skills
- Cloud Platforms: (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
- CI/CD Tooling: (e.g. GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Harness)
- Monitoring & Observability: (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Coralogix, OpenTelemetry)
- Infrastructure as Code: (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi)
- Config Management: (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
- Programming/Scripting: (e.g. Python, Go, Bash)
Soft Skills & General Requirements
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with a methodical approach to troubleshooting
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams
- A proactive mindset with a focus on automation and continuous improvement
- Ability to work effectively under pressure, particularly during incident response
- Commitment to a blameless culture and continuous learning
Nice to Have
- Experience contributing to open-source projects
- Familiarity with SRE principles as defined by the Google SRE handbook
- Previous experience in a DevOps or Platform Engineering role
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or relevant degree.
The budgeted salary range for this position in the states of Connecticut and New York is $190,000.00 - 220,000.00
Company Overview:
FactSet (NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS) helps the financial community to see more, think bigger, and work better. Our digital platform and enterprise solutions deliver financial data, analytics, and open technology to more than 8,200 global clients, including over 200,000 individual users. Clients across the buy-side and sell-side, as well as wealth managers, private equity firms, and corporations, achieve more every day with our comprehensive and connected content, flexible next-generation workflow solutions, and client-centric specialized support. As a member of the S&P 500, we are committed to sustainable growth and have been recognized among the Best Places to Work in 2023 by Glassdoor as a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award winner. Learn more at www.factset.com and follow us on X and LinkedIn.
At FactSet, we celebrate difference of thought, experience, and perspective. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. FactSet participates in E-Verify
Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience ensuring system and service reliability, scalability, and performance
- Hands-on experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting Kubernetes workloads
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, and Ingress
- Experience with Kubernetes cluster management and administration
- Familiarity with Helm for application packaging and deployment
- Understanding of Kubernetes networking, storage, and security best practices
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or Harness
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Coralogix, or OpenTelemetry
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
- Programming or scripting experience with Python, Go, or Bash
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Ability to work effectively under pressure during incident response
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a relevant field
- Experience contributing to open-source projects
- Familiarity with SRE principles from the Google SRE handbook
- Previous experience in a DevOps or Platform Engineering role
Factset Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Factset and has not been reviewed or approved by Factset.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental/vision in some descriptions, and life and disability insurance. Company-wide wellness days and region-specific add-ons (e.g., Vitality PMI, Bupa dental, Health Shield cashback) further reinforce a strong health-and-wellbeing offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement savings support is consistently included as part of the core package through retirement savings plans. The presence of these programs is framed as a meaningful component of total rewards beyond base salary.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An employee stock purchase program is highlighted as a standard part of the total rewards package. This provides a pathway to share ownership alongside cash compensation.
Factset Insights
What We Do
FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for tens of thousands of investment professionals around the world, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions. For 40 years, through market changes and technological progress, our focus has always been to provide exceptional client service. From more than 60 offices in 23 countries, we’re all working together toward the goal of creating value for our clients, and we’re proud that 95% of asset managers who use FactSet continue to use FactSet, year after year. As big as we grow, as far as we reach, and as successful as we become, we stay connected to our clients and to each other.
