Required Skills
For this role, I am looking for a high-level Site Reliability Engineer. This is a HYBRID position based on the southwest side of downtown Indianapolis. This resource MUST be able to do 3 days onsite (Tuesday - Thursday) to be considered for the role. Since the role does not start until the beginning of the year, I can take relocation candidates, but they must be willing to relocate by or around January 6th. The resource is required to have the following experience (non-negotiable): Sire Reliability Engineering, Life Sciences experience, AWS, and regulatory experience. Please make sure all candidates have this experience before sending over.
Additional Skills
Additional skills we are looking for are Veeva CRM, scripting experience in Java or Python, working with test automation (MABL).
Job Description
Role: Systems Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Location: Indianapolis, IN (Hybrid)
Type: Long Term Contract
Apex Systems, a global leader in IT Services, is looking for a Sr. SRE for a large client in Indianapolis, IN. This role is hybrid, so we are looking for candidates willing to work out of Indianapolis 3 days a week. You will be working in the Life Science industry so experience with in GMP and GCP data is preferred. Please see below for details!
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in IT or equivalent field
- Minimum 3-5 years relevant work experience (internships also count)
- Ability to effectively communicate and influence key stakeholders to support proposed strategies, process improvements and operational decisions
- Knowledge of DevSecOps quality, project management and software development approaches.
- Experience testing and mapping various processes to propose improvements
- Strong understanding of tech to gather data and problem solve
- Excellent communication and leadership skills
Role and Responsibilities:
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Collaborate within product team(s) to promote the concept of reliability engineering during all phases of the software lifecycle to detect and correct performance issues and meet availability goals.
- Work with stakeholders (e.g., product owners) to define service level objectives (SLOs) for system operations.
- Track performance against SLOs in partnership with others to ensure systems meet SLOs over time.
- Create software to improve system performance, scalability, and stability, and to automate manual operational work (i.e., “toil”).
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Participate in operational support and drive blameless post-mortems to troubleshoot and resolve priority incidents.
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Evaluate and recommend methods for improving automation, security, and system observability.
- Work with your product team as well as security and privacy experts to build, monitor, and maintain assurance techniques.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate key risks inherent to any dependencies your product has on third parties who develop, support, use, and/or assist with the lifecycle of your product.
Skillset Required:
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Strong problem solving and analytical skills and highly adaptable to changing circumstances.
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Experience in reliability engineering and monitoring practices, environments, and tools (e.g., cloud ecosystem preferably AWS, monitoring/observability, configuration management, CI/CD, etc.).
- Working with testing tools such as MABL and ALM
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Experience with programming and scripting languages (e.g., Java, Python, etc.)
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Experience with large-scale databases, data movement and analytics tools (e.g., RDS, DynamoDB, etc.)
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Experience with ITIL v4 processes, framework, and tools that support it (e.g., ServiceNow).
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Strong knowledge of agile practices and agile planning tools (e.g., Jira).
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Effective written and verbal communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
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Experience working in a highly regulated environment with a deep understanding of how quality standards and procedures are applied to high-risk applications, protecting privacy related data and identifying security threats.