SRE Engineer

About the job

Your Opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location.

Our Opportunity:

We are looking for a skilled engineer with disciplines that incorporate

aspects of software systems engineering and operations. We are combining these

skills to come up with better ways of managing and operating applications.

What you’ll do:

• Evangelize SRE mindset and solve problems through systematization.

• Identify opportunities to build innovative tools and solve unique operations problems on a large enterprise and mission critical applications

• Create scripts to automate operational tasks & incorporate the solutions into infrastructure

• Triage alerts & diagnose/resolve critical issues, manage implementation of changes

• Develop tools, frameworks, and instrumentation to validate and increase rollout success for applications.

• Coordinate capacity planning

• Develop CI/CD orchestration systems to reduce friction for software delivery to production.

• Real-Time troubleshooting of mission critical application workflows and incorporate feedback to product development.

• Participate in on call support

What you have

To ensure that we have fulfilled our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

Required Skills:

• 6-8 years of experience with enterprise level administration and support

• Current working experience with Schwab systems and processes

• 6-8 years of experience in writing automation scripts, building application dashboards for proactive monitoring, setting up alerts for early determination of the issues in Grafana, Influx, Datadog, Moog, ThousandEyes etc..

• 6-8 years of experience practicing SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) practice, process improvements

• Strong interest in AI LLM and experience with AI Automation

• Hands on experience with one or more Grafana, Splunk, Datadog, and AppD

• Hands on enterprise systems administration, monitoring, and deployment activities

• Experience with Windows 2019, 2022 hosted via Virtual Machine

• Knowledge of IP networking including DNS, DHCP, firewalls, IP routing, etc.

• Familiarity with large scale distributed systems and high-availability architectures

• Linux and Windows system administration, troubleshooting, and tuning

• Development experience in one or more or programming languages such as .Net, C#, Powershell, Yaml, Java, Python, Bash

• Knowledge of one or more of SQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Postgres databases

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Helpful Skills:

• Financial services industry experience

• Agile methodologies

Personal Skills:

• Strong customer orientation with an affinity to proactively own, communicate, and follow-through projects and issues

• Extreme sense of ownership to resolve problems in a distributed environment

• Gritty resolve to dig deeper into technical issues in a complex trading eco-system

• A self-starter with the ability and confidence to independently resolve issues and bring results back to the team

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities