Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Fiserv

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Work type
On-site
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Salary
$160,000–$240,000 / yr
Posted
18 days ago
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About Fiserv

Fiserv is a global leader in financial services technology, providing core banking platforms, payment processing, digital banking, and merchant acquiring solutions to financial institutions and businesses. Industry: Financial Technology & Payments

Fiserv currently has 117 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer joins a global team to operate financial platforms at scale. This role involves partnering with cross-functional teams to improve reliability, automate operations, and drive continuous improvement across cloud-native environments. Key responsibilities include designing automation to eliminate manual tasks, enhancing monitoring and alerting systems, participating in on-call rotations, and leading incident response activities. The engineer will define SLIs and SLOs, forecast capacity needs, and troubleshoot production issues. Required technical skills include shell scripting, Google Cloud Platform, GKE, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and HAProxy. Candidates should also be proficient with GitHub and GitHub Actions. The work focuses on platform hardening and maintaining high availability for large-scale financial services platforms within highly regulated environments.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?

Median $202800 from 62 postings across 16 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and maintain automation to eliminate manual operational tasks like runbooks and deployment pipelines.
  • Operate and enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure service observability.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response activities including root cause analysis.
  • Define SLIs and SLOs with stakeholders to translate reliability goals into measurable actions.
  • Forecast capacity needs and contribute to resource planning for performance and cost-efficiency.
  • Troubleshoot production issues through deep-dive analysis to implement durable fixes.
  • Drive platform hardening through runbook improvements and the adoption of best practices.

What we're looking for

  • Solid practical experience in site reliability, operations, or DevOps at a mid-to-senior level.
  • Strong shell scripting skills and a foundation in programming concepts.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud workloads, specifically Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and GKE.
  • Proven experience with containerization and orchestration using Kubernetes.
  • Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
  • Familiarity with monitoring and observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog.
  • In-depth understanding of HTTP(s) traffic, routing, and load-balancing with practical experience operating HAProxy.
  • Comfortable using GitHub and GitHub Actions for code management, automation, and IaC pipelines.
  • Experience programming in Python, Go, or Java (preferred).
  • Exposure to large-scale financial services platforms or highly regulated environments (preferred).
  • Experience defining SLIs/SLOs and managing error budgets in production environments (preferred).

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