Senior Site Reliability Engineer - EPAM Systems

EPAM is hiring a Remote Lead Site Reliability Engineer. If you are looking for a high-impact, exciting role with a company that leads the globe in the digital transformation space, EPAM is the perfect next step in your career! As an EPAMer, you’ll have the opportunity to work with a supportive team on a variety of interesting and impactful projects for some of the largest and most recognizable brands in the world. Are you ready to advance in your career journey? Apply now!

Responsibilities

• Lead weekly operational state reviews covering performance trends, anomalies, errors and other availability events with SREs, product owners, and development teams

• Participate in quarterly business and operational reviews aligning on roadmaps, development velocity, efficiency, growth trends, etc

• Socialize SRE culture across teams within the organization to publicize the value of SRE, mentor and train other engineers around proactive reliability decision making and planning

• Review code instrumentation with development teams and ensure necessary dashboards are created to monitor SLI/SLO/SLAs

• Establish, test, and tune alerting for varying tiers of applications

• Document and maintain runbooks and procedures, automate as much as possible

• Plan and execute periodic disaster recovery exercises, load and scalability testing, and peak readiness reviews

• Define what it means for a service to be available and develop, monitor, and alert on SLIs/SLOs

Requirements

• 5+ years of SRE or Systems Engineering experience

• 2+ years as team lead or SRE champion

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience

• Proven experience troubleshooting, mitigating, and resolving issues in a distributed system

• Strong communication and collaboration skills for varying groups of stakeholders

• Be self-motivated and can prioritize effectively between competing priorities

• Experience with implementing SRE practices for services and applications deployed in production in the cloud

• Must understand most SRE concepts, including SLI/SLO/SLA, Error Budget, MTTD/MTTR/MTBF, Toil, Capacity Planning, Observability, Monitoring/Alerting, Release Engineering, and Incident Management/Blameless Post-Mortems

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (Subsidized)

• Health Savings Account

• Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)

• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (Company Provided)

• Life and AD&D Insurance (Company Provided)

• Employee Assistance Program

• Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions

• Matched 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

• Paid Time Off – the employee will be eligible to accrue 15-25 paid days, depending on specific level and tenure with EPAM (accrual eligibility may change over time)

• Paid Holidays - nine (9) total per year

• Legal Plan and Identity Theft Protection

• Accident Insurance

• Employee Discounts

• Pet Insurance

• Employee Stock Purchase Program

• If otherwise eligible, participation in the discretionary annual bonus program

• If otherwise eligible and hired into a qualifying level, participation in the discretionary Long-Term Incentive (LTI) Program

About EPAM

• EPAM is a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services. We are committed to having a positive impact on our customers, our employees, and our communities. We embrace a dynamic and inclusive culture. Here you will collaborate with multi-national teams, contribute to a myriad of innovative projects that deliver the most creative and cutting-edge solutions, and have an opportunity to continuously learn and grow. No matter where you are located, you will join a dedicated, creative, and diverse community that will help you discover your fullest potentia