System Reliability Engineer

Ascendion

• $110K — $135K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience with Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, and Datadog monitoring tools.
  • Proven ability to operate and support large-scale enterprise platforms.
  • Experience in incident response and root cause analysis (RCA) processes.
  • Strong grasp of reliability engineering principles like availability and resiliency.
  • Familiarity with incident management systems such as ServiceNow.
  • Excellent communication skills for collaborating with diverse teams.

Responsibilities

  • Own the reliability and availability of the Embedded Finance platform, managing risks proactively.
  • Implement and maintain monitoring frameworks for end-to-end platform observability.
  • Define and track service level objectives (SLOs) and performance indicators (SLIs).
  • Lead incident response efforts and coordinate remediation across teams.
  • Advance the root cause analysis process to prevent future incidents.
  • Manage incident tickets and ensure accurate tracking and reporting.
  • Develop automation to enhance operational efficiency and response times.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Long-term and short-term disability insurance.
  • Accrual of 5 personal days each calendar year.
  • 10-15 days of paid vacation per year.
  • 6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday each year.
  • Access to an Ascendion Learning Management System for professional development.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are seeking a Systems Reliability Engineer to join the Technical Operations team supporting our Embedded Finance (EmFi) platform. In this role, you will own the reliability and resiliency of a large-scale enterprise platform, ensuring that our services remain highly available, performant and secure.

Job Title

SRE

Key Responsibilities
  • Own the reliability, resiliency and availability of the Embedded Finance platform, proactively identifying and mitigating risks to service continuity.
  • Design, implement and maintain comprehensive monitoring and alerting frameworks leveraging Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana and Datadog to provide end-to-end observability across the platform.
  • Define and track service level objectives (SLOs), service level indicators (SLIs) and error budgets to measure and improve platform health.
  • Lead and participate in incident response, serving as a technical driver during remediation calls and coordinating with impacted and impacting technical and product teams.
  • Own and advance the root cause analysis (RCA) process - investigating incidents, documenting the sequence of events and remediating actions, and clearly identifying underlying root causes to prevent recurrence.
  • Ensure timely creation and management of incident tickets (e.g., ServiceNow) and accurate incident tracking, aging and reporting.
  • Build automation and tooling to reduce toil, improve mean time to detection (MTTD) and mean time to resolution (MTTR), and increase operational efficiency.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product and risk stakeholders to embed reliability best practices into the platform lifecycle.


Minimum Qualifications
  • Hands-on experience with monitoring, observability and alerting tools, specifically Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana and Datadog.
  • Proven experience operating and supporting a large-scale enterprise platform environment.
  • Demonstrated experience with incident response and leading or contributing to root cause analysis (RCA) processes.
  • Strong understanding of reliability engineering principles, including availability, resiliency, monitoring and alerting best practices.
  • Experience with ticketing and incident management workflows (e.g., ServiceNow).
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to drive remediation efforts and collaborate across technical, product and risk teams.


Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in financial services, payments or embedded finance environments.
  • Proficiency with scripting or programming languages for automation (e.g., Python, Go, Bash).
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms, containerization and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience defining and managing SLOs, SLIs and error budgets.


Location

Jacksonville, FL, Berkeley Heights, NJ , Alpharetta, GA , Toronto, ON (Onsite)

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual [salary/hourly rate] for this position is between [$110K- $135K annually]/[$55/hr -65 per hour]. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits:

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [10-15 days of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System]

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Preferred Skills

CI/CD
  • Python CI/CD
  • Python


Job details

Job ID 333116

Role System Reliability Engineer

Location Jacksonville, Florida, US

Job type Direct Hire

Recruiter Kanchan

Email [email protected]

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