Senior SRE: Scale, Automate & Fortify Platform Reliability

Foundation Finance Company Careers; Rothschild (WI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Day-one Health Benefits

401(k) with company match enrollment

Paid time off

Parental Leave Options

Employer Paid Life and Disability

Flexible Work Environment

Job summary

Foundation Finance Company is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of platform services in a fast-growing consumer finance environment. You will partner with DevOps, Release Engineering, and Security to embed reliability across the software lifecycle.

The role emphasizes automating infrastructure, improving observability, and reducing operational risk while maintaining strong security practices and incident response readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Systems Engineering roles.
• Experience with AWS (multi-account), Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Bitbucket, Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, AWS Code Pipeline).
• Observability platforms (New Relic, CloudWatch) and container orchestration (ECS/Fargate/EKS).
• Experience with resilient architectures.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain SLOs/SLIs and error budgets for critical services.
• Lead capacity planning and performance tuning with product and engineering teams; run Game Day and DR exercises.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, patching, and runtime hygiene.
• Develop tooling to enforce SOC2 and CIS benchmarks across environments.
• Serve as Tier-2 escalation during incidents and lead root cause analyses.
• Improve playbooks, on-call rotations, and postmortems with security teams.
• Embed security best practices and maintain least-privileged IAM policies.
• Identify toil opportunities and drive automation with self-service blueprints.
• Publish reliability metrics and drive data-informed improvements.

Skills

AWS multi-account

DevOps

Site Reliability Engineering

CI/CD

Observability

Containers

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Bitbucket

Jenkins

AWS CodeBuild

AWS CodePipeline

New Relic

CloudWatch

ECS/Fargate/EKS

Job description

Foundation Finance Company is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of platform services in a fast-growing consumer finance environment. You will partner with DevOps, Release Engineering, and Security to embed reliability across the software lifecycle.

The role emphasizes automating infrastructure, improving observability, and reducing operational risk while maintaining strong security practices and incident response readiness.