SRE/DevOps Engineer

Versana•New York, NY

About The Position

Versana is seeking a motivated SRE/DevOps Engineer with strong observability experience to join our growing Platform Engineering squad. The squad’s goal is to manage public cloud, improve DevOps practices, and monitor Versana’s real-time syndicated loan data platform. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of cloud-native applications, distributed computing, CI/CD implementation, observability tools and practices.

Requirements

5+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar role.
3+ years of work experience with public cloud (Azure, AWS or GCP).
3+ years of direct experience with observability tools like Datadog, Elasticsearch, and Grafana Labs, etc.
3+ years of experience with containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
2+ years of experience in development and management of CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, Gitlab CI/CD, Github Actions, Jenkins, etc).
2+ years of experience with Infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Azure Bicep, Cloud Formation, etc.
1+ years of experience with site reliability tools like Gremlin, Chaos Mesh, or similar.
Proven track record leveraging core observability concepts, end-user monitoring, and infrastructure monitoring with SaaS solutions.
Experience with messaging services like Kafka or Azure Event Hubs.
Good understanding of the Linux operating system.

Nice To Haves

Experience in at least one coding language such as Java, JavaScript, Python, GoLang, or .NET.
Certifications in cloud technologies.
Experience with Azure cloud or Azure DevOps.
Experience with Datadog or similar modern observability tools.

Responsibilities

Design, implement and enhance system observability and monitoring tools
Monitor system performance, create incident response plans, and implement observability practices to gain insights into system behavior.
Implement and monitor service-level objectives (SLOs) and indicators.
Improve system reliability and resiliency.
Conduct post-incident reviews and implement necessary changes to prevent system failures.
Assist teams in implementing observability tools and leveraging available telemetry data to troubleshoot and resolve incidents and problems.
Leverage observability and event management to improve key incident management metrics, such as mean time to detect and mean time to restore services.
Continually optimize systems and workflows by improving architecture, infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, and observability.
Collaborate with developers to ensure applications are designed with DevOps best practices in mind.
Participate in a rotating on-call schedule for weekend releases and being available to respond to production issues outside of regular working hours, including weekends and holidays.