Remote Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Description:

• Synthesis Health is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer who will work at the intersection of development, operations, IT, security, and support.
• The role involves facilitating the automated deployment of product updates, identifying production issues programmatically, implementing integrations, planning projects, and participating in cross-functional communications.
• Key responsibilities include designing and implementing automated application deployment processes, managing development environments, and reducing deployment complexity through automation.
• The engineer will oversee software automation across cloud providers, currently using GCP but aiming to be cloud agnostic, and will containerize services to optimize resources and improve deployment speed.
• The role also includes managing and optimizing cloud infrastructure, deploying and maintaining servers, storage, and network resources, and contributing to software architecture and infrastructure as code.
• Security responsibilities involve designing and implementing security measures, drafting security processes, ensuring compliance, and maintaining disaster recovery plans.
• The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve software delivery speed and reliability, and will create internal documentation for transparency.
• Process improvement tasks include evaluating existing applications, analyzing resource utilization, and maintaining real-time monitoring systems.

Requirements:

• A Bachelor's degree or Diploma in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience is required.
• At least one year of experience as a Python developer who has transitioned to a site reliability engineer role is necessary.
• A minimum of five years of experience in software development as a DevOps is required.
• Demonstrated experience of at least two years in an SRE role on a platform running Kubernetes (GKE preferred) at scale is essential.
• Preferred qualifications include experience using ArgoCD, one year of experience with a service mesh such as Istio in a GKE environment, and experience in the healthcare industry on the technology side.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to resolve problems quickly in a fast-paced environment are important.
• The candidate should be able to work in cross-functional teams and communicate effectively with stakeholders of varying technical knowledge.
• Experience working in YAML, exceptional customer service skills, strong interpersonal skills, proficiency in scripting languages like Python, and automation tools such as Terraform are also preferred.
• Strong organizational skills are required.

Benefits:

• The salary range for this position is $150k – $200k USD, paid in the currency of the country where the individual is hired.
• Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• The company offers a "Use as needed" vacation policy.
• Employees can participate in the employee option program.