Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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Position Overview

This position is focused on providing strategic direction on and execution of infrastructure, security, continuous integration, deployment, and IT operations practices, scaling and metrics, as well as running day-to-day operations of production and development infrastructure for a cloud based hosted platforms.

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will work with Senior Software Engineers, Data Architects, and Product Managers to analyze system and network loads to address stability and performance challenges, and collaborate with others to operate various systems. The Senior SRE leads ongoing application support by diagnosing and resolving issues, maintaining applications, and evaluating and recommending options for improving performance, maintainability and operability.  This also includes streamlining processes to increase system scalability and reliability, improve efficiency, and minimize errors.

This is a hybrid position, located in Madison WI.

Essential Duties

include but are not limited to the following:

• Lead engineering efforts leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) or other cloud technology platforms, Ansible, Python, Bash, Java, JavaScript, Linux.
• Champion security and encryption best practices.
• Responsible for designing, building, maintaining, and scaling production services and server farms across multiple data centers for complex and data-intensive cloud services.
• Design and enhance software architecture to improve scalability, service reliability, capacity, and performance.
• Write automation code for provisioning and operating infrastructure at massive scale. You are not an operator, you’re an experienced software engineer focused on operations.
• Work with development teams to make sure the applications fit nicely within the infrastructure and scalability/reliability is designed and implemented from the grounds up. You will work with QA on building pipelines and automation for delivering and deploying applications to production.
• On-call rotation supporting the infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot incidents, formulate theories and test your hypothesis, and narrow down possibilities to find the root cause.
• Write postmortem reviews and remediation recommendation.

• Identify bad trends before they become problems; respond to automated system alerts, effectively troubleshoot system errors and work incidents to return systems to normal operating conditions
• Author and update high-quality documentation of all relevant specifications, systems and procedures
• Research and select toolsets for improving service delivery and expanding capabilities.  Lead engineering efforts to align technologies and capabilities to prepare for future demand and business opportunities
• Maintain and manage the SRE backlog of technical debt to deliver automation workflows for deploying infrastructure and applications
• Engage with cross-functional project and program management teams on architectural design and review sessions.  Implement effective, value driven processes to deliver innovative solutions that meet business requirements.  Develop, collect and dashboard key performance indicators (KPI) to measure and report on service level objects and availability
• Mentor engineering team members by implementing a peer review process.  Ensure the SRE peer review process is followed to deliver high quality code.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
• Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Regular and reliable attendance.
• Ability to work on a mobile device, tablet, or in front of a computer screen and/or perform typing for approximately 90% of a typical working day.
• Ability and means to travel between Madison locations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer sciences or related field; or high school degree/general education diploma and 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of degree.
• 7+ years of experience in systems engineering.
• 7+ years of work and/or formal classroom experience with modern application design and cloud environments.
• 7+ years of work and/or formal classroom experience working with software development and operations teams.
• Authorized to work in the Unites States without sponsorship.
• Demonstrated ability to perform the Essential Duties of the position with or without accommodation.

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience developing highly available systems architecture using modern technologies.
• Track record in successfully addressing performance, scalability and latency challenges.
• AWS Solutions Architect, AWS SysOps Administrator, or AWS Developer certification.

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Salary Range:

$99,000.00 - $168,000.00

 

The annual base salary shown is for this position located in US - WI - Madison on a full-time basis. In addition, this position is bonus eligible, and is eligible to be considered for company stock at hire and on an annual basis.

Exact Sciences is proud to offer an employee experience that includes paid time off (including days for vacation, holidays, volunteering, and personal time), paid leave for parents and caregivers, a retirement savings plan, wellness support, and health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage. Learn more about our benefits.

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