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1. Should be an Expert SRE guy with a can-do attitude(link removed) He should drive things (Shoulder more responsibilities) and should not be a Doer.
2. He/ She should have a very good experience in Payment Industry
3. Preference is High on Chicago based candidate(link removed) Houston is also an option but Secondary. Only Onsite no Offshore
4. Besides the location, the candidate should be working in CST time zone.

Location : Chicago / Second Option - Houston -Onsite

Expert Application Engineer (SRE)

Job Description:

As an Application Reliability Engineer, you'll tap into your passion for finding and fixing inefficiencies to solve our reliability and performance issues. In our Agile environment, you'll focus on availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change and problem management, monitoring, emergency response and capacity planning of our services. Your projects will deliver enhanced infrastructure, development, and deployment automation.

At a minimum, here's what we need:

Bachelors Computer Science or related

8+ Years Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related

Responsibilities:

• Analyse, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production
• Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills
• Has an oversight on design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them
• Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures
• Work with a team of site reliability engineers that is responsible for building the continuous reliability mindset, shepherding problem management, and driving key site reliability engineering practices into the organization.
• Design and drive monitoring, alerting, ticket reporting strategies to measure SLA, SLO, MTTI, MTTR. Etc. and align with management expectations to reduce/minimize prod downtime.
• Guide site reliability automation to help eliminate manual toil and create a self-healing capability
• Participate in selection of appropriate automation tools, defining technology, quality, experience and implementation standards and practices within own technical domain.
• Fosters a culture of excellence and continuous learning within the chapter. Establishes and tracks to appropriate OKRs to ensure outcomes are met.
• Creates solutions addressing high impact technology and business priorities
• Competent in multiple contexts, such as programming languages, security, automation, testing, infrastructure, and performance and is the go-to person for many people (inside and outside of their team)
• Proactively identifies and mitigates issues based on intuition and experience in multiple domains

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Highly preferred experience working in the payments industry
• Experience with SRE design to address reliability and resiliency with availability of 5-9s
• Deep knowledge and understanding of emerging trends in the SRE field.
• Experience developing in Java (or other similar languages)
• Experience in managing caching solutions like Hazelcast, GemFire or Terracota
• High level of familiarity with the Linux command line and scripting
• Extremely comfortable with production environments, firewalls, and networking
• Studied architectural patterns at scale, including thoughtfully designed APIs, repeatable delivery pipelines, and efficient computer engineering principles.
• Strong experience in deploying, observing, altering, logging, and monitoring systems (Splunk, Datadog, AppDynamics, Instana) with a mindset towards predictive analysis.
• Working knowledge of the automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Chef
• Working knowledge of messaging services like RabbitMQ, SQS, Kafka
• String Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery models including Blue/Green and/or Canary release models