SRE (Remote)

Job description

Job#: 2082222

Job Description:

Apex Systems is hiring for a Sr. SRE for a major Healthcare company.

6 month contract to hire

FULLY REMOTE anywhere in the United States, EST or CST preferred.

You must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

About the role:

This resource will be working on building and improving the disaster recovery (DR) capabilities of the client’s Tier 1 applications.

Common responsibilities will include:

- Building, reviewing and maintaining application design and architecture documents.

- Ensuring the DR capabilities are built into each system.

- Working with development teams to implement and maintain the DR capabilities.

- Participate in DR testing exercises and evaluate the results for continuous improvement.

- Leads more complex projects focused on building and maintaining observability/monitoring for the application, monitoring key performance indicators, maintaining alerting, and continuously improving visibility.

- Helps make decisions around periodic system validation and testing, service monitoring, and standing up new services/tools

- Uses knowledge and experience to identify strategies that increase system reliability and performance through on-call rotation and process optimization

- Identifies and implements necessary manual and automated procedures for improved collaborative response in real-time

- Leads lower level Engineers in stress, security, and performance testing

- Resolves issues that come up through support escalation

- Keeps documentation and runbooks up to date to effectively deal with new incidents that might arise

- Leads post incident reviews and documents findings for future informed decision making

- Reviews proposals to optimize Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to boost service reliability and makes decisions around which proposals should move forward.

- Communicates complex topics with development teams to investigate and document issues and leads internal team to develop solutions to mitigate them

Education/Experience:

Bachelors degree

4-6 years minimum years of related experience.

Technical Skills:

AWS, Route 53, Lambda, Mongo DB, Kafka, Kubernetes

Load Balancing / Load Redirecting / Load Restricting strategies

Monitoring and Observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Splunk, Elk

Experience with Rancher and Axway API Gateway is a plus

Soft Skills:

Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty

Ability to identify basic problems and procedural irregularities, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions

Ability to work independently

Demonstrated analytical skills

Demonstrated project management skills

Demonstrated project management skills

Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure

Demonstrates excellent judgment and decision making skills

Day to Day:

Partner with application and infrastructure teams to define Disaster Recovery (DR) standards

Design, deploy and manage Tier 1 DR capabilities.

Standardize and evangelize DR implementation patterns

Define and evangelize observability and ops excellence standards as related to DR

Define and maintain failover criteria

Define, maintain and test Technical Recovery Guides (TRG)

EEO Employer

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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe.

When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection.

We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure.

Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts.

In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA.

Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach.

You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Apex team member can provide.

Required Skill Profession

Computer Occupations