Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Description

The company's Cyber Security Engineering team sits within Cyber Security Operations. It designs, deploys, maintains and improves the security tools the information security teams use.

The company develops medicines for serious health conditions, mainly in immunology, oncology and neuroscience, and also offers aesthetics products.

As a senior site reliability engineer, you will keep production security systems running reliably, meet uptime targets, and make sure they get current content and features. You will work with developers, watch performance and capacity, recommend and make changes, and automate repetitive toil.

The team works in a hybrid setup, running tools across on-premise and cloud-native environments. You should be comfortable with virtualized environments and microservices and able to align architecture across them. GitOps underpins the work, and the git footprint keeps growing.

Responsibilities

• Design and improve systems for performance, reliability and scale.
• Create and evolve CI/CD pipelines.
• Help build, manage and deploy microservice and containerized applications.
• Put strong security controls into distributed systems and agents.
• Work with engineers and developers to automate deployments and configuration across platforms.
• Hide the complexity of observability behind scalable automation.
• Find ways to improve observability and processes.
• Set up standardized alerts and notifications, and respond to what monitoring tools report.
• Help application teams apply observability in their daily work.
• Join post-mortems, carry out root cause analysis, and complete the resulting action items.
• Encourage DevOps best practices across the team.
• Take part in Agile/Scrum and encourage it.
• Help grow the hybrid cloud containerization service.
• Create standards, policies and procedures for automation and integrations.
• Learn the toolset alongside application experts, then propose or build features that streamline operations.

Requirements

• Hold a Bachelor's degree plus 7 years of experience, a Master's degree plus 6 years, or a PhD plus 2 years.
• Treat security best practices as mandatory from the start.
• Know cloud platform administration on AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Understand the pillars of observability.
• Have worked in high-scale environments and understand distributed architectures.
• Know Agile and DevOps methods.
• Have used CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Bamboo, Jenkins or Azure DevOps.
• Run Docker workloads on orchestration tools such as Kubernetes or Amazon ECS.
• Work independently and also within a group on day-to-day tasks.
• Learn new concepts and processes quickly and adapt to change.
• Administer Linux and Windows environments.
• Preferred: Exposure to, or implementation of, SPIRE/SPIFFE.
• Preferred: Direct experience with Terraform or Crossplane.
• Preferred: Proficiency with development tools and scripting languages, such as git, mercurial or subversion, and Python, Elixir or Go.
• Preferred: Experience integrating MCP Servers with authorization controls.
• Preferred: Knowledge of NoSQL and relational database systems and their query languages.
• Preferred: AWS Cloud Practitioner or Azure AZ-900 certification.
• Preferred: Deep experience designing and implementing serverless architectures.
• Preferred: Demonstrated experience deploying containerized applications, such as on Kubernetes.
• Preferred: Experience with data and pipeline technologies such as Apache Storm, Kafka, Flink, Spark or Hadoop.
• Preferred: Prior experience working in an Agile team.
• Preferred: Solid understanding of observability solutions such as OpenTelemetry or Prometheus/Grafana.
• Preferred: Excellent understanding of distributed system architectures and telemetry.
• Preferred: Excellent experience deploying and managing large Kubernetes distributed platforms.
• Preferred: Proficiency in GitOps and infrastructure as code systems such as Terraform, ArgoCD or Helm.

Conditions

The role can be done remotely from anywhere in the U.S.

Where state or local law requires pay disclosure, the company's good-faith base pay range for the role applies. Pay within it depends on factors including geographic location, actual pay may fall above or below it, and the range may change.

No pay counts as wages until it is earned, vested and determinable. Bonuses, incentives and other compensation and benefits are at the company's sole discretion, can be changed, and are subject to applicable law.

The company is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes veterans and people with disabilities; this notice applies to US and Puerto Rico positions.

Benefits

• Paid time off covering vacation, holidays and sick leave.
• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k) for eligible employees.
• Eligibility for short-term incentive programs.