Senior Site Reliability Engineer

HCA•Nashville, TN

49d

About The Position

What makes HCA Healthcare Information Technology Group (ITG) unique as a technology company is that our solutions ultimately impact the care of patients. Although our skills are needed in many industries, we in ITG apply them specifically to the noble cause of healthcare. We are "Healthcare Inspired." This guiding vision pervades and positively influences every level of our organization. It shapes our mission, defines our values, and brings our leaders and employees together in a shared enthusiasm for their work, setting ITG apart as a uniquely purpose-driven company in the IT industry. As a part of that, we exist to raise the bar, unlock possibilities, and care like family. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will provide SRE best practices for mission-critical applications across the enterprise. When these applications fail, you'll have the skills and decision-making capabilities to quickly restore services, investigate the root cause, and develop a plan that mitigates future failures. You will spend time analyzing system performance and identifying ways to enhance the reliability of our environments, from developing dashboards, performing configuration changes, building robust monitoring systems, and learning how to leverage automation to drive efficiencies. You will help drive uptime and reliability across the enterprise. We are on a mission to change the face of the healthcare industry through value-driven products. These products will create innovation for all healthcare users across HCA's nationwide ecosystem. To do this, we are building both curious and quick teams to adapt to new technologies.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree in COmputer Science or related field preferred
Five or more years in software development or engineering roles.
Knowledge of infrastructure, frameworks, and software/cloud design patterns for implementing applications in the cloud.
Experience in the use and implementation of relevant tools and platforms (e.g., cloud platforms (IaaS and PaaS), web technologies, client-server technologies, continuous integration, and deployment)
Experience with version control (Git) and open-source practices.
Experience in one or more coding languages. (JavaScript/Typescript, C#, Python, Java, Swift or Kotlin) Experience with automation of CI/CD pipelines
Experience with IaC such as Terraform A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks.
Be a creative thinker, not bound by "the way things have always been done". What you know is less important than how well you learn and innovate. We dont need engineers who know all the answers; we need engineers who can invent the answers no one has thought of yet, to the questions yet to be asked.
Experienced in helping define SLIs, SLOs & SLOs, and the experience to build observability to report on operating against those objectives.
Strong ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing.
Ability to build and maintain strong cross-functional partnerships at all levels of the organization.
Strong: Learning and teaching other team members and others external to the team.
Ability to work, make aligned decisions, plan, and accomplish goals without explicit direction/guidance from leadership.
Experience with system architectures, how software systems interact, and integrate
Ability to evaluate new technologies to assist senior leadership align it to the HCA Healthcare strategic roadmap.
Strong understanding of SRE practices and implementations.
Expertise in knowledge of Linux and Windows Systems Administration and how to manage through code.
Ability to determine best practices and articulate authoritative direction.
Ability to help establish and grow the SRE principles with the team.
Growth mindset and a willingness to learn new skills, technologies, and frameworks.

Nice To Haves

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

Responsibilities

Practices and adheres to the "Code of Conduct" philosophy and "Mission and Value Statement."
Promote a collaborative team environment and work closely with colleagues to achieve business objectives.
Collaborate with stakeholders (e.g., business stakeholders, product owners, project managers, and end users) to understand functional and non-functional requirements.
Lead Investigations and solution proposals to development and design problems.
Participate with team members in scope of work estimation and forecasting.
Improve performance of existing software by diagnosing and resolving critical issues.
Prepare technical documentation, including software & architectural design evaluation plans, data flow diagrams, test results, and technical manuals.
Adhere to and influence established development practices and processes.
Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding.
Ongoing review of technology, infrastructure, and code to enhance and build resiliency into the applications.
Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts.
Balance feature development & deployments with speed, reliability, and well-defined service-level objectives.
Partner with development teams and vendors of 3rd party applications to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures.
Build/Develop automations to "self-heal" applications and reduce the toil of manual operational tasks. Pursuit of operational excellence, uptime, and reliability of our applications
Participate, lead, and drive in creating postmortem analysis of why services broke or degraded, including recommendations for long-term fixes. It may require going across multiple teams and organizations within the enterprise. Determine root-cause for all production-level incidents and write corresponding high-quality RCA reports.
Collaborating and building relationships across business and technology organizations, providing sound analysis, and thought leadership.
Support system upgrades, architecture design, implementations, and deployments.
Ability to work in a complex organization, navigate multiple verticals of expertise and negotiate, guide direct and influence your peers to provide real solutions.
Maintain industry knowledge in software development, architecture, and development products, such as databases, security, and automation products.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
Colleague recognition program
Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.