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Salary: CAD 123,250 - 166,750 / annual
Vena Solutions is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the SaaS Technology and Operations (STO) team. This is a flexible role with options to work full-time from the Toronto office, hybrid throughout the week, or remotely within Canada. Preference is given to candidates in the Greater Toronto Area who can attend the Toronto office approximately two days per month.
In this role, you will leverage your software and systems engineering expertise to build and operate large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems and services across AWS and Azure. You will be responsible for designing highly scalable, resilient, and automated services that maximize uptime and customer experience.
Key responsibilities include:
- Helping Vena's technology organization build scalable systems using automation and developer self-service practices
- Providing pre-launch support through system design consulting, software platform development, and planning reviews
- Defining and documenting runbooks and standard operating procedures
- Owning and leading projects as part of the STO team's delivery strategy
- Maintaining live services by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and system health
- Mentoring other SREs and members of the Product and Technology organization on emerging technologies and best practices
- Driving high standards around incident response practices with focus on automated response and remediation
- Serving as a subject-matter expert in one or more technologies used by the Vena platform
- Participating in technical interviews for STO and other positions
- Participating in on-call rotation
The technical stack includes: AWS and Azure infrastructure managed via Terraform and Ansible; CI/CD through Azure DevOps and Jenkins; containerized workloads on EKS, ECS, and Azure Container Apps; RDS MySQL, Redshift, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch; Kinesis, SQS, and RabbitMQ; Temporal for workflow orchestration; Auth0 for identity management; Python for DevOps tools; Java, Dropwizard, Spring Boot, and Hibernate for back-end; TypeScript, JavaScript, React, and Redux for front-end; and Observe Inc., CloudWatch, and Azure Monitor for observability.
Requirements:
- 6+ years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineer role
- AWS or Microsoft Azure Associate or Professional level certification (preferred)
- Deep knowledge of SRE concepts including SLO, SLIs, and error budgets with direct implementation experience
- In-depth knowledge of AWS and Azure cloud platforms with solid experience setting up and managing cloud infrastructure using IaC and orchestration tools
- Ability to write production-ready code in any language with demonstrated examples
- In-depth experience with AWS, Azure, Ansible, artifact storage (Artifactory, ECR), build/release pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions), Docker, GitHub, Kubernetes, and Terraform
- Direct experience with large-scale distributed systems in the cloud using observability and telemetry for code deployment oversight
- Experience with operational aspects of software systems using telemetry, centralized logging, and alerting tools such as CloudWatch, Observe Inc., and Prometheus
