Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Company Overview With 80,000 customers across 150 countries, UKG is the largest U.S.-based private software company in the world. And we’re only getting started. Ready to bring your bold ideas and collaborative mindset to an organization that still has so much more to build and achieveRead on. Lead Site Reliability Engineer Lead Site Reliability Engineers at UKG are critical team members that have a breadth of knowledge encompassing all aspects of service delivery. They develop software solutions to enhance, harden and support our service delivery processes. This can include building and managing CI/CD deployment pipelines, automated testing, capacity planning, performance analysis, monitoring, alerting, chaos engineering and auto remediation. Lead Site Reliability Engineers must be passionate about learning and evolving with current technology trends. They strive to innovate and are relentless in pursuing a flawless customer experience. They have an “automate everything” mindset, helping us bring value to our customers by deploying services with incredible speed, consistency, and availability. Job Responsibilities: Engage in and improve the lifecycle of services from conception to EOL, including system design consulting, and capacity planning Define and implement standards and best practices related toSystem Architecture, Service delivery, metrics and the automation of operational tasks Support services, product & engineering teams by providing common tooling and frameworks to deliver increased availability and improved incident response. Improve system performance, application delivery and efficiency through automation, process refinement, postmortem reviews, and in-depth configuration analysis Collaborate closely with engineering professionals within the organization to deliver reliable services Increase operational efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of services by treating operational challenges as a software engineering problem (reduce toil) Guide junior team members and serve as a champion for Site Reliability Engineering Actively participate in incident response, including on-call responsibilities Partner with stakeholders to influence and help drive the best possible technical and business outcomes Required Qualifications Engineering degree, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience Experience coding in higher-level languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript, C++, or Java) Knowledge of Cloud based applications & Containerization Technologies Demonstrated understanding of best practices in metric generation and collection, log aggregation pipelines, time-series databases, and distributed tracing Working experience with industry standards like Terraform, Ansible Demonstrable fundamentals in 2 of the followingComputer Science, Cloud architecture, Security, or Network Design fundamentals Demonstrable fundamentals in 2 of the followingComputer Science, Cloud architecture, Security, or Network Design fundamentals (Experience, Education, Certification, License and Training) Must have at least 5 years of hands-on experience working in Engineering or Cloud Minimum 5 years' experience with public cloud platforms (e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure) Minimum 3 years' Experience in configuration and maintenance of applications and/or systems infrastructure for large scale customer facing company Experience with distributed system design and architecture Where we’re going UKG is on the cusp of something truly special. Worldwide, we already hold the #1 market share position for workforce management and the #2 position for human capital management. Tens of millions of frontline workers start and end their days with our software, with billions of shifts managed annually through UKG solutions today. Yet it’s our AI-powered product portfolio designed to support customers of all sizes, industries, and geographies that will propel us into an even brighter tomorrow! Disability Accommodation UKGCareers@ukg.com