Associate Site Reliability Engineer

Job#: 3057568
Job Description:
Associate Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Remote)
Role Overview
Our organization is seeking an Associate Reliability Engineer to ensure the resilience and availability of our systems and applications. This role drives incident response efforts, performs root cause analysis, and implements preventative measures to enhance overall system reliability. Through automation and process improvements, you will help establish consistent practices that elevate our operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities

• Follow software lifecycle driving reliability, observability, and efficiency across product teams within your domain.
• Identify repeated toil and discover opportunities for automation.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to production incidents and conduct blameless retrospectives and root-cause analyses to drive continuous improvement.
• Proactively identify failures before they cause outages by using chaos engineering techniques, including edge cases, failure modes, and design reviews.
• Execute additional tasks and projects as assigned to support system stability.

Required Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science, or a related field of study.
Experience: Demonstrated foundational experience in reliability engineering practices, including incident response support and root cause analysis.
Technical Skills: Programming skills in one or more languages, such as Java, Python, Go, or Node.js. Practical experience working on IBM Mainframe systems, including TSO/ISPF, JCL, Batch job scheduling, transaction processing (CICS), and Security (RACF). Basic knowledge of systems architecture, operating system internals, and network fundamentals.
Preferred Qualifications

• Basic knowledge of application design patterns, event-driven architecture, database schemas, and testing strategies.
• Basic knowledge of cloud platforms, specifically Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, or Microsoft Azure.
• Working experience with Elixir programming.
• Basic knowledge of continuous integration, continuous deployment, and test-driven development.
• Basic understanding of containerization and container orchestration tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, or Rancher.
• Basic understanding of configuration management tools like Chef, Ansible, or Puppet.
• Familiarity with monitoring techniques and tools, including CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or Tracing.

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