Remote Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Description:

• ZayZoon is a fast-growing Financial Technology and HR company aiming to empower small and midsize businesses with financial tools.
• The company has created a financial empowerment platform focused on employee financial wellness.
• The role of Senior Site Reliability Engineer involves enhancing ZayZoon’s cloud infrastructure through complex AWS builds, infrastructure-as-code, and observability/logging/APM solutions.
• The engineer will work in an embedded reliability team alongside app and data engineers to monitor, benchmark, and scale ZayZoon’s products.
• Responsibilities include developing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code CloudFormation templates, focusing on serverless resources like ECS, Fargate, and Lambda.
• The role requires instrumentation and daily metrics analysis of infrastructure performance and Ruby on Rails applications using AWS tools and third-party observability platforms.
• The engineer will manage deployment pipelines, including blue/green deployments and intelligent auto-scaling.
• Maintaining resource dependencies, particularly for databases, and projecting costs for AWS savings programs are also key responsibilities.
• Collaboration with risk and security teams to ensure SOC-2 and cybersecurity compliance is essential.
• The engineer will work closely with app developers and data engineers on shared metrics, database performance, and data warehouse development.
• Participation in the agile development process, including sprint planning and stand-ups, is expected.
• Adherence to secure coding practices and the software development lifecycle (SDLC) is required.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have 5+ years of infrastructure experience.
• A minimum of 2+ years of AWS experience, including certification and deployment of production applications, is required.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), specifically CloudFormation, is necessary.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker, ECS, and ECR is required.
• Candidates should have experience analyzing and addressing performance issues using observability platforms like DataDog, NewRelic, or OTel.
• The ability to build quickly for experimentation and cleanly for core functionality is essential.
• Strong SQL and data analysis skills, along with a willingness to engage in data-driven problem solving, are required.

Benefits:

• Candidates must be located in Canada to be considered for this position.
• The role is available on a permanently remote basis, allowing for flexible work arrangements.
• Candidates must have access to a secure high-speed internet connection and a secure workspace to protect private information.
• As part of the hiring process, reference calls with previous managers and a criminal record check will be conducted.
• A basic security clearance will also be required due to the nature of the business.