Site Reliability Engineer III

Verisk Analytics•Jersey City, NJ

42d

About The Position

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll bridge the gap between software development and operations, applying software engineering principles to infrastructure and operations problems. You'll help design, build, and maintain the systems that keep our services reliable and scalable while working closely with development teams to improve application performance and resilience.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or similar roles
Expertise in incident management, disaster recovery, and building resilience engineering frameworks
Strong programming skills in at least one language such as Java, or Python
Extensive experience with Linux/Unix systems administration
Hands-on experience with serverless (Lambda) and containerization technologies (Docker)
Experience implementing and managing cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure DevOps)
Advanced understanding of networking concepts, load balancing, security best practices, and CDN technologies
Strong experience with observability systems (like Dynatrace)
Knowledge of database technologies and their performance characteristics
Demonstrated experience leading incident response and post-mortem analysis
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience
Deep knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
Mastery of CI/CD pipeline design and implementation (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps)
Experience building and maintaining comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems
Experience managing high-traffic, mission-critical production environments
Strong background in capacity planning and performance optimization
Proven ability to mentor junior SREs and elevate team capabilities
Experience driving cross-team initiatives to improve reliability practices
Track record of successfully advocating for and implementing architectural improvements
Strong incident management skills, including crisis communication

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain reliable infrastructure systems with a focus on security, scalability, reliability, and automation using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
Build and maintain scalable and resilient production systems with a focus on automation
Develop and implement monitoring solutions to ensure system health, performance, and availability
Lead incident response, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventative measures
Track SLOs, and SLAs to measure and improve service reliability and error budgets to drive reliability improvements
Design and implement CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid and reliable software delivery
Partner with development teams to improve application performance, resilience, and scalability
Contribute to capacity planning and performance optimization initiatives
Participate in an on-call rotation to support production systems
Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the growth of the team
Develop and evolve security monitoring, alerting, and incident response frameworks