Site Reliability Engineer

ApTask; Montreal; On-site; CAD 125,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in IT services is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) based in Montreal. The successful candidate will focus on maximizing the reliability of systems and improving operational practices, particularly for ServiceNow implementations. This role involves collaboration with global teams and active participation in incident management.

Qualifications

• Experience in software development or system administration.
• Strong collaborative skills and client service orientation.
• Ability to handle technical emergencies.

Responsibilities

• Deliver improvements to maximize system availability and performance.
• Troubleshoot ServiceNow and Linux environment issues.
• Develop and maintain operational tools.

Skills

Software development

Python

ServiceNow administration

Proficient communication

Client service

Tools

Linux

Job description

Direct message the job poster from ApTask

Looking for an intermediate between 2 to 5 years' experience.

The Application Infrastructure (Al) department is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help drive the reliability

engineering, operations and customer support services clients ServiceNow SaaS implementation.

Reporting to a Site Reliability Engineering & Operations Lead.

This role requires delivering a range of SRE practices within a global community of other SREs.

This means teaming up with colleagues to deliver reliable, resilient systems without wasteful operational effort.

SRE practices include task optimization and automation, prioritizing technical debt, observability and monitoring

dashboards, capacity management, incident response, and problem elimination.

This position specializes in ServiceNow Software as a Service which provides a suite of IT service management

capabilities and is integrated with many products such as chatbot technology, on-call escalation incident

management, and a range of other on-premises infrastructure including SQL databases, APis, and web

infrastructure).

Despite the focus on value-add development and process delivery, this is also a production-side, operational role

requiring participation in an on-call rotation from time to time.

Successful candidates for SRE roles in Application Infrastructure have so far come from a variety of backgrounds;

maybe a developer today looking to evolve site reliability as a practice, or an infrastructure specialist with an interest

in reliability and resilience principles, or a strong system admin who enjoys troubleshooting along with some task

Prior experience in the financial services industry is not required, and we welcome candidates from all industries and

backgrounds to apply.

Responsibilities include:

• Delivery of improvements that will maximize the availability and performance of supported systems through

optimized and automated operational tasks, collaborating on the development of operational tools, ongoing

problem management, and architecture reviews with colleagues.

• Troubleshooting ServiceNow issues, and also some on-premise capabilities in a Linux environment from

time to time, collaborating with others get to the bottom of issues, and agreeing on lasting improvements that

can be made.

• Exploring and delivering observability including metrics, logging, tracing and alerting that can define and

measure the target reliability of a product.

• Being dependable and responsive during agreed hours, like when part of the on-call rotation with the rest of

the global team (with a time-off in lieu system).

• A commitment to understanding the Firm's ServiceNow instances and related dependencies, contributing to

their documentation.

• Identification and prioritization of technical debt that is can impact client satisfaction or operational efficiency.

• Give feedback on policy and procedures related to the delivery of SRE and operational practices with a view

to continually making the Firm safer and more efficient.

Skills required:

• The ideal candidate would have at least one of: Software development skills in one or more programming

language, e.g. Python, ServiceNow administration or development experience,

• 7 + years of experience

• Proficient oral and written communication skills

• Establishing warm, effective relationships with colleagues to collaborate on successful delivery

• A dependable team worker with demonstrated commitment to client service

• Ability to respond appropriately during occasional technical emergencies, like outages.

ServiceNow administration or development experience, although this can be acquired by the successful candidate via

on the job and via training.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting and Investment Banking

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