SRE / Site Realiability Engineer

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Systems Operations Engineer in Chandler, AZ, Charlotte, NC, Iselin, NJ, Irving, TX and/or New York, NY (Hybrid).

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Contract Duration: 12 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of Systems Engineering, Technology Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• 5+ years of experience with Linux
• 3+ years database support/knowledge with Mongo and/or SQL experience (Oracle SQL)
• 2+ years app development or support in payments and/or wires applications

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience in payments and/or wires application technology (major/large banking technology experience).
• Exposure/knowledge/understanding MTS (Money Transfer System), Real Time/Instant Payments, and other payment origination applications and technologies.
• Linux bash scripting ability – develop scripts on the fly and seek automation opportunities to improve/stabilize application space and reduce manual intervention requirements.
• Kafka understanding/experience.
• Proficiency in utilizing Service Now for incident, problem, and change management (opening incidents, reviewing changes, documenting records).
• Extremely strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to identify root-cause issues/improvement opportunities, and design approaches.
• Knowledge and understanding of complex enterprise systems and frameworks including frontends, middleware, services layer, database, backend, and downstream interfaces.
• Hands on experience using monitoring tools like Splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana, Geneos ITRS etc.

What You Will Be Doing

• Support a suite of applications across varying technologies enabling wires and payment processing.
• Partner with cross-organizational teams to ensure end-to-end platform engineering capabilities are implemented, ensuring resilience, high performance, and high availability of the applications.
• Responsible for production deployments, ensuring governance and controls and act as a gatekeeper for any changes to the production environment.
• Provide cross-functional and cross-organizational coordination on root cause analysis for any production issues.
• Drive recovery efforts during incident calls. Gather essential information for root cause analysis and stability improvement.
• Review and analyze moderately complex operational support systems, application software, and system management tools to ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability.
• Conduct incident management and coordinate/implement solutions to prevent customer impact.
• Inform leadership on ongoing issues through formal communications in alignment with ITIL best practices.
• Learn new tools and concepts in platform engineering space to implement automation, building and testing CI/CD pipelines, Ansible, Prometheus, and Cloud engineering concepts etc.
• Contribute to increasing system efficiencies and lowering the human intervention time on related tasks.

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family
• Dental & Orthodontia Benefits
• Vision Benefits
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options
• Paid Sick Time Leave
• Legal and Identity Protection Plans
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
• 529 College Saver Plan

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans/Disability/Women. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.