Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Sat-Wed, Night Shift)

About the role

Are you driven to be an innovative Site Reliability Engineer, and looking to join a team where open collaboration, customer focus, and a commitment to excellence are core values? At Ivanti, we work passionately and authentically, striving to win together and make a real impact for our customers and each other. Join us to elevate your career and help deliver innovative solutions in a dynamic, empowering environment.

Why We Need You?

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a growing team that partners closely with Product Engineering, Security, and Support. We are responsible for the reliability, deployment, and continuous operation of the Ivanti Cloud services. We need your help to take our existing platform to the next level with observability, release automation, chaos engineering, and more.

The SRE role is a blend of infrastructure, networking, operating systems, automation, development, and application administration. It is a hands-on technical position in a fast-paced atmosphere. The ideal candidate has prior experience managing cloud-based SaaS applications and strives to solve traditional operations problems through automation and software. More so, the candidate must possess a high standard of excellence, have a strong customer focus, and is capable of technical deep dives into code, app servers, databases, load balancers, operating systems, and networks.

What You Will Be Doing?

• US citizenship and must be located domestically in the U.S.
• Work 4 x 10-hour days (Saturday (night) to Wednesday (morning), approximately 10 PM to 9 AM U.S. Pacific Time, including lunch)
• Deploying, managing, and securing Ivanti's production Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) environments in AWS and Azure
• Working with geographically dispersed, cross-departmental teams to solve difficult problems
• Automating common and repetitive tasks
• Writing documentation and training material
• Training other colleagues
• Participating in on-call rotations for 24x7 coverage (follow-the-sun model) for incident response, issue triage, and problem resolution

What You Will Bring?

• A BSc in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years of relevant industry experience (2+ with an achieved BSc in Computer Science or Equivalent Degree)
• Proficiency with Python and experience with one of the following languages:
• Java
• Golang
• C#
• Proficiency working with Bash or PowerShell programmatically
• Familiarity with public cloud platforms (AWS or Azure preferred)
• Experience troubleshooting Java and.NET applications
• Experience troubleshooting network and storage infrastructure issues
• Experience working with core Linux distributions (Debian, RHEL, SUSE, Slackware)
• Experience working with Windows
• Experience working with one or more: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, or similar
• Ability to configure and fine tune at least one: HA Proxy, Apache, Nginx, IIS, or similar
• Ability to configure: New Relic, DataDog, Splunk, or similar monitoring tools
• Familiarity with container orchestration technologies (AWS EKS or Azure AKS preferred)
• Experience with deployment pipeline tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, and/or GitHub Actions
• Proficiency working and developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• A desire to adopt and implement emergent technologies and best practices
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English for the purposes of global collaboration

'Nice-to-haves' include:

• Prior experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or DevOps Engineer
• Certificates in one or more of the following categories, or demonstrated certificate-equivalent knowledge:
• Cloud Development and architecture
• Kubernetes Administration
• Linux Administration
• Software engineering disciplines
• Experience with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 Type 2, ISO-27001, FedRAMP, or IRAP and privacy regulations such as GDPR and PIPEDA

What drives us

Ivanti's mission is to elevate human potential within organizations by managing, protecting and automating technology for continuous innovation. It is through diverse and inclusive hiring, decision-making, and commitment to our employees and partners that we will continue to build and deliver world-class solutions for our customers.

To learn more about Ivanti's Mission and Core Values.