Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Centene

You are a seasoned professional with a bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or technical field and four to six years of relevant experience. You have a solid bac

Work type: remote

Salary: $87,000 – $161,300/yr

Type: Full-time

Summary

You are a seasoned professional with a bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or technical field and four to six years of relevant experience. You have a solid background in reliability practices, system monitoring, and the technical ability to lead projects focused on infrastructure performance. **What makes it worth a look...** Centene offers a base salary range of $87,000 to $161,300 per year for this fully remote position, available in a wide selection of US states. You will also have access to comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401k plans, and tuition reimbursement. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have professional experience with SRE or DevOps methodologies. * Are comfortable managing batch scheduling for high transaction volumes. * Can write and optimize SQL queries for data analysis and troubleshooting. * Possess hands-on experience setting up and maintaining observability tools.

Job Description

You could be the one who changes everything for our 28 million members by using technology to improve health outcomes around the world. As a diversified, national organization, Centene's technology professionals have access to competitive benefits including a fresh perspective on workplace flexibility.

Position Purpose: Helps lead projects that are focused on managing and maintaining optimum platform infrastructure performance, reliability, and security using SRE practices, observability tools, manual and automated procedures, documentation, people and processes and continuous delivery(CI/CD) tools, processes, and designs. Develops complex services to automate monitoring activities and provide critical information to facilitate response and resolution of performance and availability issues and incidents. Understands and advocates for standardized and scalable software tools to ensure that systems operate without interruption at optimum performance and leads project teams through out the deployment process. Troubleshoots and analyzes service disruptions to determine the root cause of issues and develop solutions for improved reliability.

Support multiple applications and schedule batch jobs for a large number of transactions weekly

Troubleshoots and resolves more complex problems with systems and services and initiates regular deployment of new versions of the systems and their subcomponents

Leads more complex projects focused on building and maintaining observability/monitoring for the application, monitoring key performance indicators, maintaining alerting, and continuously improving visibility.

Helps make decisions around periodic system validation and testing, service monitoring, and standing up new services/tools

Uses knowledge and experience to identify strategies that increase system reliability and performance through on-call rotation and process optimization

Identifies and implements necessary manual and automated procedures for improved collaborative response in real-time

Leads lower level Engineers in stress, security, and performance testing

Resolves issues that come up through support escalation

Keeps documentation and runbooks up to date to effectively deal with new incidents that might arise

Leads post incident reviews and documents findings for future informed decision making

Reviews proposals to optimize Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to boost service reliability and makes decisions around which proposals should move forward.

Communicates complex topics with development teams to investigate and document issues and leads internal team to develop solutions to mitigate them

Performs other duties as assigned

Complies with all policies and standards

Education/Experience: A Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science) and Requires 4 – 6 years of related experience. Or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position.

Technical Skills:

One or more of the following skills are desired.

- Experience with SRE or DevOps

Batch scheduling

Monitoring experience

Pay Range: $87,000.00 - $161,300.00 per year

Centene offers a comprehensive benefits package including: competitive pay, health insurance, 401K and stock purchase plans, tuition reimbursement, paid time off plus holidays, and a flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules. Actual pay will be adjusted based on an individual's skills, experience, education, and other job-related factors permitted by law, including full-time or part-time status. Total compensation may also include additional forms of incentives. Benefits may be subject to program eligibility.

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