Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

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City Point, City of Boston, MA, USA
In-Office
130K-140K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Software
The Role
Senior SRE responsible for ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance of production systems. Investigates and resolves incidents, works with R&D on defects, manages deployments and change validation, builds monitoring and diagnostic tooling to improve MTTA/MTTD/MTTR, configures observability platforms, participates in on-call rotation, and performs risk assessments and production readiness validation.
Summary Generated by Built In

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Site Reliability Engineer

Location(s): Waltham, MA | Hybrid

About the Role

Sr Site Reliability Engineer- Guardian of the products to ensuring systems are reliable, scalable, and efficient enough to meet business goals.

  • Investigate issues raised by customers, database administrators, and application support and suggest short term and long term solutions.
  • Provide day-to-day technical support in maintaining the information system, including responsibility for ensuring processes and outputs and complete and error-free.
  • Work with Operation Team for deployment and validation of changes to production during release/deployment/Change Request Implementations.
  • Participate in production issue bridge and work with different R&D and Operation teams to resolve customer issues.
  • Responding to and resolving escalated incidents for customer issues or monitoring alerts.
  • Building diagnostic and analytical tools that improve the MTTA, MTTD, and MTTR.
  • Configure and integrate commercially available monitoring tools into the production systems to improve availability, scalability, and latency.
  • Participate in on-call rotation and handling time critical issues during on-call schedule.

Why Join SS&C

SS&C combines proprietary technology with deep industry expertise to support complex financial and health care operations. Our teams design, implement, and operate solutions that help clients manage data, automate processes, and scale their businesses with confidence.

You will work with industry experts, modern platforms, and evolving technologies, gaining exposure to real-world operational challenges and large-scale enterprise environments.

How You Will Make an Impact 

  • Responds to and resolves escalated incidents for customer issues or monitoring alerts within SLA
  • In-depth analysis of incident RCA;
  • Working with R&D and architecture teams on defects and runtime inefficiencies identified in the production environment;
  • Building diagnostic and analytical tools that improve the MTTA, MTTD, and MTTR.
  • Building systems/site monitoring tools for system health and APIs to ensure smooth operations of production systems
  • Validate and Verify software deliverables for production readiness.
  • Risk assessment and mitigation of changes to the production systems
  • Conducts project planning, cost analysis and vendor comparisons (POC/POV) and works on project implementation.
  • Works with development teams to enhance and improve system operability.
  • Conducts tests of network redundancy, resilience and failover of network elements to ensure up-time standards are fully achieved.
  • May be required to provide on-call service coverage with other department employees.

Required Experience

  • BS or MS in Computer Science or similar discipline
  • Strong work experience in Unix/Linux
  • Strong knowledge of Java Web-based enterprise applications, Python, or Bash to automate tasks and build tooling.
  • Strong work experience and troubleshooting skills in Kubernetes and Docker.
  • Working experience of Azure, AWS with (CloudWatch, EKS, EFS, S3, RedShift and other AWS services) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Ansible.
  • Working Knowledge in basic networking and various application and transport protocols. HTTP(s), JMS etc. TCP, UDP etc
  • Experience working with one or more of the following: Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, Zabbix, Prometheus, etc.
  • Working Experience on Akamai/Cloudflare DNS, CDN , DataStream & WAF.
  • Experience working with one or more of the following: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
  • Experience working with messaging subsystems: RabbitMQ, Interconnect, AMQ.
  • Familiar with AI tools.

What Sets You Apart (preferred qualifications)

  • Minimum 7 years of experience in developing Software projects and/or DevOps/SRE.

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SS&C Technologies offers a comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your wellbeing, growth, and future. Our benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage; a 401(k) plan with company match; paid time off, holidays, and parental leave; and professional development reimbursement opportunity.

Actual base salary will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to relevant skills, prior experience, education, demonstrated performance, and geographic location.

Massachusetts: The expected base salary for the position is between 130,000 USD to 140,000 USD.

 


Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.



SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.

Skills Required

  • BS or MS in Computer Science or similar discipline
  • Strong experience in Unix/Linux
  • Strong knowledge of Java, Python, or Bash for automation and tooling
  • Troubleshooting and operational experience with Kubernetes and Docker
  • Experience with Azure and AWS (CloudWatch, EKS, EFS, S3, RedShift and other AWS services)
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Ansible
  • Working knowledge of networking and application protocols (HTTP(s), JMS, TCP, UDP)
  • Experience with monitoring/observability tools (Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, Zabbix, Prometheus)
  • Experience with Akamai or Cloudflare services (DNS, CDN, DataStream, WAF)
  • Experience with databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
  • Experience with messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Interconnect, AMQ)
  • Familiarity with AI tools
  • Participation in on-call rotation and incident response
  • Experience building diagnostic and analytical tools to improve MTTA/MTTD/MTTR and automation
  • Minimum 7 years of software development and/or DevOps/SRE experience

SS&C Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about SS&C Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by SS&C Technologies.

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Leave policies are described as generous, including flexible or unlimited vacation and broadly positive views of PTO as a meaningful part of the overall package.
  • Retirement Support Retirement benefits are positioned as a notable strength, with repeated references to a 401(k) plan with company matching as a valued component of rewards.
  • Equity Value & Accessibility Equity and stock-related incentives are highlighted as a bright spot, with stock incentives described as excellent in some roles and contributing positively to perceived total rewards.

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The Company
HQ: Birmingham, AL
22,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1986

What We Do

SS&C is a global provider of investment and financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Named to Fortune 1000 list as top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut and has 22,000+ employees in over 150 offices in 35 countries. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest institutions to local firms, manage and account for their investments using SS&C's products and services.

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