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Junior Site Reliability Engineer
Ser*** · United States · Remote
United StatesFull timeExp: 0-2 yrs68,000-119,000 USD/yearlyRemote
Remuneration
Medical, dental, and vision insurance; paid parental leave; 401(k) match up to 4%; phone and internet reimbursement up to $275 monthly; Employee Assistance Program; LifeMart discounts.
Location
United States · Remote
Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5)
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa
Job summary
The Junior Site Reliability Engineer supports the reliability, scalability, and security of cloud infrastructure and production systems, working across software engineering and operations. The role monitors applications and infrastructure, investigates incidents and root causes, improves system performance, and develops infrastructure-as-code and automation using Terraform and Ansible. It also supports Linux-based systems, security controls, and collaboration with SRE, platform, and development teams.
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurancePaid parental leave401(k) matching up to 4%Phone and internet reimbursement up to $275 monthlyEmployee Assistance ProgramLifeMart discounts
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a relevant field, or equivalent work experience.
- Zero to two years of relevant industry experience recommended.
- Practical system administration knowledge or experience developing software solutions.
- Linux server administration experience and a strong understanding of Linux or Unix.
- Familiarity with SRE principles and mindset.
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies, Scrum, Kanban, or scaled Agile frameworks.
- Basic experience with ticketing systems such as Jira and wikis such as Confluence.
Responsibilities
- Monitor applications, infrastructure, and alarms; diagnose symptoms and root causes.
- Handle and resolve low- to medium-complexity incidents and requests.
- Investigate service issues and support preventive measures to avoid recurrence.
- Support the reliability, performance, scalability, and security of cloud infrastructure and production systems.
- Develop and provision infrastructure-as-code scripts using Terraform and Ansible.
- Automate routine operational tasks to reduce manual effort and toil.
- Support infrastructure hardening, patching, security controls, and security audits.
- Collaborate with SRE, platform, and development teams on deploying and monitoring software.
Skills
AnsibleConfluenceJiraLinuxTerraformGit
Degrees
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a relevant field; equivalent work exper
Work schedule
Work hours aligned with Mountain or Pacific Time business hours
Travel
Up to approximately 5%
Industry
Finance process automation
Relocation
No