Site Reliability Engineer - Observability

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Job Description:

At Regions, the Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for ensuring the dependability of our firm's most critical system applications. This role will be called upon to solve major issues, understand and remediate the points of system failure, as well as work with internal teams to optimize system applications’ reliability, performance, and capacity.

Primary Responsibilities

• Ensures a holistic view is taken of our system applications’ overall health
• Solves problems relating to mission critical services and creates solutions to prevent problem recurrence
• Collaborates with team members to improve the company’s engineering tools, systems and procedures
• Designs and deploys applications and enhancements to improve reliability, scalability, latency, and efficiency
• Tests installed software for malfunction detection
• Identifies and resolves business systems issues
• Measures effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems
• Develops and implements strategies to improve systems
• Monitors and tests system performance
• Assists management with auditing team processes and procedures on a routine basis
• Provides high-level training, guidance, and advice to junior engineers
• Manages complex projects
• Serves as a subject-matter expert

This position is exempt from timekeeping requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime pay.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED and eleven (11) years of related experience
• Or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field and seven (7) years of related experience

Skills and Competencies

• Ability to collaborate with programmers, developers, and other technology professionals to achieve a common objective
• Ability to conduct system analysis to detect issues with performance
• Ability to develop and implement technology solutions to resolve technical challenges
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Knowledge of software testing techniques, code optimization and software debugging
• Strong communication, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong executional capabilities
• Thorough understanding of software structures, hardware, computing systems and how to integrate them

Desired skills for this specific opportunity

• Cloud technologies: Prior experience supporting hybrid environments with one or more Cloud providers (AWS, Azure)
• Observability: Prior experience implementing one or more Commercial Observability/APM solutions (Dynatrace, New Relic, Datadog, AppDynamics, Honeycomb)
• Monitoring and Logging: Solid familiarity with Splunk, Elastic, OpenSearch, Prometheus, Grafana
• Implementing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles SLO/SLI
• Experience troubleshooting and resolving issues with critical business apps.
• Sound knowledge of servers, infrastructure, load balancers, storage etc.
• Operating Systems competency: solid understanding of Unix/Linux and windows
• Technologies: Kubernetes, Containers, serverless
• Languages/Programming: One or more of the following: ​Bash or ksh, Powershell, Java, Python, JavaScript, or any other common computer language competency
• Configuration management and IaC: Prior experience writing and utilizing Ansible and Terraform
• Cloud cert(s): AWS Solutions Architect Associate or AWS DevOps Associate

This position must be within a reasonable driving distance to a Branch, Consumer Operations, or Professional Office Building with the primary location being for :

• Birmingham, AL
• Nashville, TN
• Atlanta, GA
• Charlotte, NC
• Dallas, TX
• Houston, TX
• Denver, CO
• Orlando, FL
• Tampa, FL
• Salt Lake City, UT

Regions will not provide relocation assistance for this position, and relocation would be at your expense. Exceptions to the geographic location requirement may be made for current Regions associates who work remotely.

Position Type

Full time

Compensation Details

Pay ranges are job specific and are provided as a point-of-market reference for compensation decisions. Other factors which directly impact pay for individual associates include: experience, skills, knowledge, contribution, job location and, most importantly, performance in the job role. As these factors vary by individuals, pay will also vary among individual associates within the same job.

The target information listed below is based on the Metropolitan Statistical Area Market Range for where the position is located and level of the position.

Job Range Target:

Minimum:

$119,388.40 USD

Median:

$153,950.00 USD

Incentive Pay Plans:

Opportunity to participate in the Long Term Incentive Plan.

Benefits Information

Regions offers a benefits package that is flexible, comprehensive and recognizes that "one size does not fit all" for benefits-eligible associates. Listed below is a synopsis of the benefits offered by Regions for informational purposes, which is not intended to be a complete summary of plan terms and conditions.

• Paid Vacation/Sick Time
• 401K with Company Match
• Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
• Disability Benefits
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Account
• Life Insurance
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Associate Volunteer Program

Please note, benefits and plans may be changed, amended, or terminated with respect to all or any class of associate at any time. To learn more about Regions’ benefits, please click or copy the link below to your browser.

https://www.regions.com/welcometour/benefits.rf

Location DetailsRiverchase Operations Center

Location:Hoover, Alabama

Bring Your Whole Self to Work  

We have a passion for creating an inclusive environment that promotes and values the differences that make each of us stand out as unique individuals and help provide valuable perspective that makes us a better company and employer. More importantly, we recognize that creating a workplace where everyone, regardless of background, can do their best work and thrive is the right thing to do.

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Job applications at Regions are accepted electronically through our career site for a minimum of five business days from the date of posting. Job postings for higher-volume positions may remain active for longer than the minimum period due to business need and may be closed at any time thereafter at the discretion of the company.