Senior SRE Engineer - Krakow, Poland

at  Finalsite

Finalsite is the preferred website, communications, enrollment, and marketing platform of more than 7,000 schools and school districts in 119 countries around the world. The company’s people, products and services transform how schools connect and engage with their community, recruit students and staff, and fundraise; while managing the complex requirements around data privacy, accessibility, hosting and security. Finalsite products and services include award-winning website designs, a robust content management system, mass communications tools, a powerful enrollment management system, innovative inbound marketing tools, data integration, training, support and marketing consulting. Finalsite is headquartered in Glastonbury, CT, USA with employees who work remotely in nearly every state in the U.S. as well as Europe, South America, and Asia. For more information, please visit www.finalsite.com.

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

• Minimum 4-6 years of combined experience serving in either a Cloud, DevOps, SRE, Systems Engineer role.
• Extensive experience with the public cloud (GCP - must have, AWS and/or Azure - nice to have).
• Deep knowledge of workload orchestration and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Solid automation experience within infrastructure as code side (Terraform).
• CI/CD Experience with platforms such as Gitlab or Jenkins.
• Proven track record of being able to support critical production systems with minimal downtime.
• A basic understanding of networking and the various components associated with it such as routing, DHCP, and DNS.
• Willingness to participate in our 24x7x365 on-call rotation.
• Experience mentoring both other developers and more junior engineers.
• Demonstrated expertise in software development methodologies such as Scrum or SAFe.
• Deep understanding of email delivery - SMTP, SPF, DKIM, DMARC will be a plus

SUMMARY OF THE ROLE

As a senior SRE, you will evangelize and be responsible for the health, observability, and maintainability of our production environment as well as the associated auxiliary components that drive our day to day business. An ideal candidate would have a background in both software development, with solid groundings in the fundamentals of computer science as well as the systems skills necessary to understand and operate within both contexts.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• The ability to evangelize the essence of site reliability in both business and technical terms to a wide variety of audiences that range from non-technical business people to the most technical of engineers. Drive stakeholder buy-in of key metrics such as SLIs/SLOs to new systems/software being built.
• A deep understanding of fault tolerance in both software and systems terms, being able to speak to architectural design patterns around both.
• A desire to automate everything. Whether that be infrastructure as code or tooling to eliminate toil, automation should be a core focus of your mindset and the elimination of repetitive tasks should be a constant desire in the role.
• Natural curiosity. You aren’t simply satisfied with something working, you want to know why it works and how it works.