Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Observability

T. Rowe Price; Owings Mills (MD); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health and wellness benefits

Family care resources

Job summary

A global asset management firm in Owings Mills is looking for an experienced professional to design cloud infrastructure solutions. The role requires 10+ years in technology architecture and a strong background in AWS, DevOps, and automation. Candidates should possess a Bachelor's degree and have the ability to lead initiatives that improve reliability across services. Enjoy hybrid work flexibility and a range of benefits, including competitive compensation and wellness resources.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure with senior-level impact.
• 5+ years building and supporting solutions in Amazon AWS.
• Experience with chaos model implementation.
• System administration and scripting experience.
• Experience with chaos engineering at scale.
• Strong scripting and automation capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Design technology solutions to prevent service disruptions.
• Analyze incidents impacting technology availability.
• Lead initiatives across multi-functional areas.
• Develop and mentor diverse talent on the team.
• Automate prevention and remediation using IaC and monitoring tools.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure design

AWS solutions

DevOps/SRE function

Automation

Programming languages (Python, Java, etc.)

Database development

Observability tools

SQL

Monitoring

Terraform

Ansible

Grafana

Prometheus

New Relic

Elastic Stack

Cloud security

Vagrant

Vault

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Ansible

Terraform

Splunk

Terraform

Job description

At T. Rowe Price, we identify and actively invest in opportunities to help people thrive in an evolving world. As a premier global asset management organization with more than 85 years of experience, we provide investment solutions and a broad range of equity, fixed income, and multi-asset capabilities to individuals, advisors, institutions, and retirement plan sponsors. We take an active, independent approach to investing, offering our dynamic perspective and meaningful partnership so our clients can feel more confident.We believe doing the right thing for our clients and our associates is good business. With a career at the firm, you can expect opportunities to create real impact at work and in your community. You’ll enjoy resources to support your career path, as well as compensation, benefits, and flexibility to enrich your life. Here, you’ll find a collaborative culture that respects and values differences and colleagues who share a spirit of generosity. * Possesses extensive knowledge in own area of expertise and extensive in-depth knowledge of the broader portfolio for comprehensive understanding of up/downstream impacts across technology infrastructure* Responsibility for the design of technology solutions to prevent or minimize service disruptions* Prevents technology service disruptions through technology solution recommendations and automations* Fosters a culture of deep learning through blameless post-mortems to improve the shared goal of reliability across services* Transform operations teams by facilitating internal change to adopt SRE standard methodologies across the organization and driving strategic growth in this area within Global Technology* Analyzes incidents impacting technology availability for high-level trends across the broad portfolio* Drive initiatives to reduce or prevent technology failures in a complex, distributed technology environment* Pulls together information from disconnected systems into cohesive views of the technology portfolio for identifying trends, redundancies, and risk* Demonstrates outstanding awareness of the complexities of the tech and asset management industries* May lead initiatives of varying degrees of complexity that span multi-functional areas and of varying degrees of complexity* Contributes to definition of target state architecture and design of the technology environment* Bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination of education and relevant experience AND 10+ years of experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure with senior‐level impact.* 5+ years building and supporting solutions in Amazon AWS* 5+ years of experience building and running a DevOps and/or SRE function* Experience with implementation and operation of the chaos model at scale* Strategic and program-level implementation experience* Demonstrable experience implementing new technology, tools, and platforms* System administration and scripting experience* Demonstrable experience leveraging automation to proactively prevent or quickly remediate incidents* Fluent in multiple programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, GO, Node.js, .Net Core, etc)* Proficiency with database development (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc)* Proficiency with defining, right-sizing, tracking, and reporting on Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), system availability, and the progress and outcomes related to reliability* Experience with implementing and managing Error Budgets* Proficiency with understanding and explaining incident situations and their recovery plans to prevent recurrence* Knowledge/experience driving dashboard standardization across the ecosystem for observability, APM and infrastructure monitoring, and application-specific logging* Knowledge/experience with observability tools such as New Relic, SolarWinds DPA, Elastic Stack, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and cloud native tools* Knowledge/experience with cloud management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Vault, and Vagrant* Works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations* Makes sound decisions with limited facts or resources* Balances strategic and pragmatic concerns when solving problems* Adjusts communication style and materials to suit a given audience* Able to clearly articulate operational principles, practices, and policies* Stays abreast of industry trends and technologies* Accountable for work of self and others; sets standards around which others will operate* Maintains a broad internal professional network and knows when to engage/activate it* Develops or mentor’s diverse talent on the team* Ability to be on-call and/or work during off-hours* Cloud or SRE‐related certifications* Working knowledge of Azure**FINRA Requirements** FINRA licenses are not required and will not be supported for this role. **Work Flexibility** This role is eligible for hybrid work, with up to three days per week from home.Placement within the range provided above is based on the individual’s relevant experience and skills for the role. Base salary is only one component of our total compensation package. Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus, which is determined upon company and individual performance.We value your goals and needs, at work and in life. As an associate, you’ll be supported with resources, benefits, and work-life balance so you can thrive in ways that matter to you. Featured employee benefits to enrich your life: Competitive compensation Health and wellness benefits, including online therapy Family care resources, including fertility and adoption benefits