Brand: Purpose Financial

Address: 322 Rhett Street, Greenville, South Carolina, United States - 29601

Position Summary

Purpose Financial is looking for a talented, result-oriented, innovative Site Reliability Engineer to join the team!

This position reports to the Systems Integration Manager and is responsible for building and maintaining reliable infrastructure and deployment pipelines in AWS, leveraging Kubernetes/EKS and infrastructure as code. You will create and maintain tools, workflows, and standards that enable developers to ship code efficiently and reliably. This role includes participation in an On-Call rotation.

Job Responsibility

Infrastructure & Cloud Operations

• Develop and maintain reliable, repeatable processes by leveraging Terraform infrastructure as code and associated pipelines while adhering to AWS best practices.
• Create, configure, and optimize Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes/EKS/Rancher in AWS.
• Manage system architecture, reliability, and perform root cause analysis of equipment, process, and service failures in both AWS and on-premises environments.
• Participate in technical capacity planning and forecasting.

CI/CD & Automation

• Establish and maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery (CICD) processes using Kubernetes/Rancher CD and GitHub Actions.
• Contribute to team improvement initiatives and projects, including process improvements, testing tools, and automation.

Monitoring & Reliability

• Utilize system and application monitoring tools such as Elastic Cloud to support and improve System performance.
• Participate in an On-Call rotation.

Collaboration & Culture

• Foster a collaborative and communicative culture between Development and Operations by implementing automation and instrumentation to minimize risk, increase productivity, and scale efficiently.
• Mentor and train team members as well as developers when needed.
• Attend engineering, customer, and business meetings as required.

Documentation & General

• Maintain technical documentation and procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Job Responsibilities Cont.

Education Required

Bachelor's degree in information systems, Computer Science, other relevant fields, or equivalent related work experience.

Experience Required

• 5+ years in a DevOps / SRE role supporting CI/CD and Agile development in production environments
• 5+ years of designing, implementing, and operating scalable AWS infrastructure
• 2+ years building and managing CI/CD deployment pipelines
• 2+ years working with containerized workloads in Kubernetes/EKS

Knowledge Required

Excellent written and verbal communications skills; adaptability and flexibility to changing environment; and comfortable working in a dynamic, high volume, fast-paced environment. Ability to understand and ensure compliance with policies, procedures, and laws governing our industry/business and products.

Knowledge Required:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Adaptability and flexibility in a changing environment
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, high-volume, fast-paced environment
• Ability to create detailed technical documentation
• Track record of collaborating in a matrix environment and leading by influence across functional and organizational lines
• Extensive experience evaluating, onboarding, and managing new technologies, services, and features
• Understanding of compliance with policies, procedures, and laws governing the industry, business, and products

Physical Requirements

Sitting for long periods of time; standing occasionally; walking; bending; squatting; kneeling; pushing/pulling; reaching; twisting; frequent lifting of less than 10 lbs., occasional lifting of up to 20 lbs.; driving and having access during the workday to an insured and reliable transportation; typing; data entry; grasping; transferring items between hands and/or to another person or receptacle; use of office equipment to include computers; ability to travel to, be physically present at, and complete the physical requirements of the position at any assigned location.

Competencies

OKR
Technical Proficiency/Leadership

Travel

0-10% travel depending on location

Attire

Business Casual

Other

Technologies & Environment

The Site Reliability Engineer will work with a modern cloud infrastructure and deployment stack supporting production environments in AWS.

Core Technologies

• AWS Cloud infrastructure and foundational cloud services
• Infrastructure as code utilizing Terraform
• Git, GitHub Actions, hooks, and APIs
• Programming and Scripting languages (ex. Python, Go, Bash)
• Kubernetes/EKS/Rancher
• Linux Operating System

CI/CD & DevOps

• Agile development in CI/CD environments
• DevOps best practices in an HA environment

Familiarity with the following is a plus:

• Networking
• Storage technologies
• High availability architecture
• System monitoring tools (Elastic Stack, CloudWatch)
• Application Performance Monitoring tools (Elastic Stack APM)

Requisition ID: 46210