The Position
Do you dream about creating a more sustainable future? At Uplight, we are motivating energy users and providers to accelerate the clean energy ecosystem. Working with over 90 of the world's leading electric and gas utilities, Uplight provides an end-to-end customer energy experience. Uplight delivers personalized experiences that customers have now come to expect-improving satisfaction, increasing revenue, reducing the cost to serve, and contributing to carbon reduction goals. We are B Corp certified, enabling us to put our values into action by not only making decisions for the benefit of our shareholders, but also for our customers, environment, employees, and community.
We are seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer t o join our team and help us achieve our ambitious goals for our business and the planet. What you get to do:

• Provide automated and orchestrated management of all SaaS platforms and technical solutions to complex problems that require creativity and dedication
• Provide guidance and expertise to product developers as part of Uplight's Site Reliability Engineering team
• Leading and contributing to AWS & GCP architecture, development, maintenance, automation and orchestration for application pools, websites, data services, virtual networks, security, monitoring, service discovery and other platform services
• Exercises considerable latitude to determine technical objectives of assignment; completed work is reviewed for desired results from a relatively long-term perspective
• Responsible for ensuring that assignments are delivered on schedule and in accordance with Uplight quality standard
• Guides the successful completion of all aspects of major programs and may function in a project leadership role
• Contribute in definition of and enforce patterns, best practices and strategies for source control structure, branching and CI/CD
• Enhancing platform services with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, GIT, Artifactory, Jenkins and Packer
• Contribute in definition of and enforce patterns for local developer environments to ensure consistency across all products and into production builds
• Define, promote, and maintain SRE (DevOps) best practices across the Uplight organization and product lines
• Collaboratively participate with team members to identify areas for improvement and drive solutions
• Participate with Architects and product development teams within Agile processes to build rock solid services and expand our SaaS portfolio
• Working in Jira to manage Agile story production and escalated technical issues

What you bring to Uplight:

• 3-5 years of experience developing production-level applications or automated deployment pipelines using Infrastructure as Code in a public cloud environment (AWS, Azure, Google)
• At least 3 years of experience in DevOps practices and platform engineering for commercial applications
• At least 3 years of experience in server administration (Linux and or Windows)
• At least 3 years of experience in scripting or development languages (Bash, Powershell, Python, Ruby, JSON, Java, AngularJS, Node.JS)
• At least 3 years of experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet or Salt)

Bonus Points:

• 5+ years of system administration experience
• 3+ years of experience with Agile Methodology and SRE practices
• GCP Professional Cloud Data/Network/DevOps Engineer (PDE, PCNE, or PCDOE)
• Certified AWS SysOps Administrator or AWS DevOps Engineer
• BS in Computer Science; Associates Degree or certificate plus 3-6 yrs of relevant industry experience

What makes working at Uplight amazing:
In addition to all the standard medical and dental benefits, that kick in Day 1, we are:

• Proud to be over 500+ rebels with an important cause by helping to create a more sustainable planet.
• Committed to the environment, our employees, and our communities
• Focused on career growth by following defined career ladders
• Committed to taking our work and mission seriously and.... we love to laugh!

We also provide:

• 401k program with company matching
• Medical, vision, and dental insurance
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Peer to peer recognition program
• Management by objectives bonus program
• Innovative flexible time off policy
• Exceptionally collaborative and cool office spaces (once we reopen them)

Salary Range: $135,000 to $140,000
In accordance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the approximate annual base compensation range is listed above. The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package and benefits, will be determined by a number of factors including the applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity among our team.
Uplight provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race (including hair texture and hairstyles), color, religion (including head coverings), age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.