SRE/DevOps Engineer

Cardata; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Cardata is looking for a motivated SRE/DevOps Engineer to join our growing Platform Engineering team in New York. This position focuses on improving DevOps practices and monitoring our real-time data platform.

The ideal candidate will have a solid background in cloud-native applications and observability tools like Datadog and Elasticsearch. Join us to enhance system reliability and contribute to our mission!

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar role.
• Experience with public cloud services (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• 3+ years of work with observability tools (e.g., Datadog).
• Good understanding of Linux operating systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and enhance observability and monitoring tools.
• Monitor system performance and create incident response plans.
• Implement and monitor service-level objectives (SLOs).
• Collaborate with developers to apply DevOps best practices.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Observability tools

Public Cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP)

Docker & Kubernetes

CI/CD Pipelines

Infrastructure-as-Code

Linux Operating System

Tools

Datadog

Elasticsearch

Grafana

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Job description

About Us:

Versana is an industry-backed data and technology company on a mission to make the syndicated loan market better. By digitally capturing agent banks’ data on a real-time basis and centralizing it onto a single platform, Versana provides unprecedented transparency into loan level details and portfolio positions, bringing efficiency and velocity to the entire market. Through our platform, participants can rest assured they are accessing the loan market’s most credible source of deal information.

About You:

Versana is seeking a motivated SRE/DevOps Engineer with strong observability experience to join our growing Platform Engineering squad. The squad’s goal is to manage public cloud, improve DevOps practices, and monitor Versana’s real-time syndicated loan data platform. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of cloud-native applications, distributed computing, CI/CD implementation, observability tools and practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and enhance system observability and monitoring tools
• Monitor system performance, create incident response plans, and implement observability practices to gain insights into system behavior
• Implement and monitor service-level objectives (SLOs) and indicators
• Improve system reliability and resiliency
• Conduct post-incident reviews and implement necessary changes to prevent system failures
• Assist teams in implementing observability tools and leveraging available telemetry data to troubleshoot and resolve incidents and problems
• Leverage observability and event management to improve key incident management metrics, such as mean time to detect and mean time to restore services
• Continually optimize systems and workflows by improving architecture, infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, and observability
• Collaborate with developers to ensure applications are designed with DevOps best practices in mind
• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule for weekend releases and be available to respond to production issues outside of regular working hours, including weekends and holidays

Must Have:

• 5+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar role
• 3+ years of work experience with public cloud (Azure, AWS or GCP)
• 3+ years of direct experience with observability tools like Datadog, Elasticsearch, and Grafana Labs, etc.
• 3+ years of experience with containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
• 2+ years of experience in development and management of CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, Gitlab CI/CD, Github Actions, Jenkins, etc.)
• 2+ years of experience with Infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Azure Bicep, Cloud Formation, etc.
• 1+ year of experience with site reliability tools like Gremlin, Chaos Mesh, or similar
• Proven track record leveraging core observability concepts, end-user monitoring, and infrastructure monitoring with SaaS solutions
• Experience with messaging services like Kafka or Azure Event Hubs
• Good understanding of the Linux operating system

Nice to Have:

• Experience in at least one coding language such as Java, JavaScript, Python, GoLang, or .NET
• Certifications in cloud technologies
• Experience with Azure cloud or Azure DevOps
• Experience with Datadog or similar modern observability tools

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, 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. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training