Senior Site Reliability Engineer- Remote or Hybrid

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We’re also a debt-free multi-billion-dollar organization on our path to IPO-readiness. If you're looking for a dynamic, fulfilling career coupled with flexibility and world-class employee experience, you'll find it here.

About the job

The SAS Decision Builder team is looking for a Sr Site Reliability Engineer to lead the design and implementation of scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure as we transition our analytical software to a SaaS delivery model. This is a pivotal role where you will shape the future of our cloud operations, establish best practices, and ensure our systems are resilient and performant. The SAS Decision Builder team brings our state of the art Intelligent Decisioning capabilities to the Microsoft Fabric Ecosystem.  

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will:  

• Design and develop high quality, testable and scalable software solutions within established timelines while adhering to R&D best practices and processes. 
• Work with the R&D team to design highly scalable and reliable services in the cloud. 
• Build out state of the art monitoring and alerting tools. 
• Participate in project scoping and scheduling; tracks progress of individual tasks and alerts stakeholders of issues blocking or preventing completion of task. 
• Ensure quality through functional, unit and performance testing. 
• Build tools and automation to improve internal processes within R&D 
• Serve as a technical expert of cloud related technologies. 
• Participate in a 24-hour, on-call service as part of a team rotation. 

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software development/programming experience 
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field.  
• Hands on experience in one or more Object Oriented Programming Languages. (Python, GoLang or JavaScript) 
• The ability to deep drive and automate manual processes and reducing toil 
• Hands on experience with scaling and capacity planning customer facing microservices 
• Hands on experience of Cloud Computing. (Azure ) 
• Experience running databases at scale in the cloud (I.e. postgres, mysql) 
• Hands on experience with container orchestration systems and running production workloads. Kubernetes is preferred 
• Hands on experience with Monitoring and Alerting solutions (I.e. DataDog) 
• General Understanding of Chaos Engineering methodologies 
• Basic understanding of Agile methodologies 
• Ability to think analytically and effectively communicate issues and solutions 
• Availability to participate in a 24-hour, on-call service as part of a team rotation. 

Preferred qualifications

• Understands complex system architectures and infrastructures. 
• Passion for automation, scalability, and building reliable systems from the ground up 
• Solid understanding of networking, security, and identity management in cloud environments. 

World-Class Benefits  

Highlights include...

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
• Medical plan options include...
• PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
• HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
• An industry-leading 401k plan.
• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
• Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.

Diverse and Inclusive

At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our diverse workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers. Our commitment to diversity is a priority to our leadership, all the way up to the top; and it’s essential to who we are. To put it plainly: you are welcome here.

Additional Information:

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights. 

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