Senior Site Reliability/DevOps Engineer (Hybrid)

About The Role

Swift, a global leader in secure financial messaging services, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability/DevOps Engineer for a hybrid role based in Manassas, VA. This position requires a blend of on-site and remote work, with two days per week on-site.

Responsibilities

• Exert technical influence to improve the reliability of our production products and systems.
• Resolve moderately complex issues through investigation and solution development for effective mitigation and prevention of future recurrence by means of process, procedure, or tools improvements.
• Execute production installations including configuration setups, error message handling, and service verification and review of operational procedures in accordance with the established process.
• Design, develop, test and maintain automation of monitoring/testing tools for infrastructure and problem management analysis.
• Provide effective and detailed systems analysis that can contribute to definition of throughput requirements, information and application data flows, hardware and software requirements, and alternative approaches.
• Actively participate in design review meetings for medium to large size/complexity/risk projects.
• Periodic work on the weekends, mainly on Saturday, in support of production deployments.
• Participate in system/network projects/enhancements by representing the department and providing technical input ensuring adherence to documented processes and procedures and risk mitigation efforts.

What Will Make You Successful?

• Professional skills & competencies: Driven with strong ability to quickly adapt and respond to change. Customer oriented and quality mindset – we continually strive to deliver true customer value. Open-minded, solutions oriented, and a true team player – gaining energy through collaboration with others. Fluent in English (spoken and written).

• Technical skills & knowledge: Comfort with RHEL, scripting languages (including ksh, Python, or Perl), analytics software such as Elastic and Kibana, familiarity with configuration and deployment management software such as BitBucket, Jenkins, and Ansible. Ability to work under pressure.

• Desirable technical skills & knowledge: Experience with distributed systems with high availability requirements and balancing the service reliability, sustainability, and technical debt for services running at scale. Demonstrate leverage of a methodical and analytical mindset during problem investigations and management of incidents. DB: Proficient working knowledge of Oracle DB. Exposure to languages such as C/C++ and Java.

Education & Experience

• BS Degree
• 5+ years of related working experience in a similar role.

Compensation & Benefits

• The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position in Virginia is $108,710.00 MINIMUM to $201,890.00 MAXIMUM USD.
• Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
• Our compensation packages include a competitive base salary and bonus opportunity for all employees contingent on personal and company performance.
• Our generous benefits program includes medical, dental, vision and life insurance with no premium costs for our employees and their families, and retirement plan plus matching 401k.