Associate Site Reliability Engineer

JOB TITLE:  Associate Site Reliability Engineer

FLSA STATUS:  Exempt

DEPARTMENT:  Technology

REPORTS TO:  Director, Information Technology

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: No

JOB LOCATION:  Nashville, TN – Corporate Office/Remote

TRAVEL:  None

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Monitor the health and performance of production systems and infrastructure.


• Respond to and investigate incidents to ensure timely resolution and minimize downtime.


• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and automation tools to improve system reliability and efficiency.


• Collaborate with software engineers to design and implement scalable and reliable solutions.


• Participate in capacity planning and performance tuning activities to support business growth.


• Contribute to the design and implementation of disaster recovery and failover strategies.


• Document processes, procedures, and best practices to facilitate knowledge sharing and training.


• Stay current with industry trends and best practices in site reliability engineering and related technologies.


• Serve as a primary point of contact for all infrastructure supporting our enterprise applications


• Engage and assist our security team to provision and maintain a secure environment for our applications


• Execute quarterly security scans and work with security and development teams to resolve


• Create and maintain a portfolio of templates, scripts, and configurations for developers to use when building out new environments or applications


• Work with our vendors to help maintain our dedicated environment

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE):

• 1-3 years’ experience in Site Reliability Engineering or similar engineering role


• Practical experience with device and application monitoring tools (ex: Site24x7, New Relic, CloudWatch, GuardDuty, etc.)


• Experience using configuration management tools such as Chef or Puppet


• Strong sense of ownership over your work


• Determination to follow issues to resolution both with and without guidance


• Practical experience with coding languages such as Go, Python, or Javascript/Typescript

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE):

• Experience migrating applications from dedicated environments to cloud-based providers


• AWS certification (Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, DevOps Engineer)


• Experience setting up and securely configuring web servers such as Apache, Nginx, and IIS


• Experience creating and maintaining pipelines within CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, AWS CodeDeploy, or BitBucket.


• Knowledge creating and maintaining containerized applications