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Company

Discover Financial Services · 2 days ago

Senior Associate Application Engineer (SRE)

Riverwoods, IL

Full-time

Remote

Entry Level

$72K/yr - $121K/yr

1+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Partner with our Application Develop teams to implement service level objectives

Partner with our Application Development teams and other SREs to build out end to end observability

Implement monitoring, alerting and dashboards needed for our apps

Automate operational processes

Help to develop our capacity management and performance management tools

Help to develop a chaos testing process

Participate in an on-call rotation

Completes most features and user stories including test cases and automation unattended.

Learn more complex software engineering practices such as domain driven design, test driven development, operations, and security.

Contributes to agile ceremonies, leads demos and presentations, helps new engineers learn established norms, and participates in technology communities.

Participates in system design decisions and learns how these decisions impact the product.

Learns to support production systems and understands how observed events and failures impact the product.

Qualification

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SRE ExperiencePythonGoShell ScriptingJavaCI/CD PipelinesContainer TechnologyAWSAutomation ToolsObservability ToolsDashboarding ToolsAgile MethodologiesDomain Driven DesignTest Driven DevelopmentCapacity ManagementPerformance ManagementChaos Testing

Required

Bachelors – Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security or Information Technology

1+ years – Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related

Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of Advanced Beginner on the Dreyfus engineering scale.

Primarily remain in a stationary position.

No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.

Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.

Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.

Ability to communicate verbally.

Ability to communicate in written form.

Preferred

Experience as an SRE

Good understanding of hybrid infrastructure, ideally with AWS

Experience in one or more general purpose programming languages: Python, Go, shell scripting (Unix/Linux), Java

Experience in CI/CD pipelines

Experience in container technology (openshift, Kubernetes)

Expertise in automation tools experience such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible.

Expertise in observability tools including APM (DataDog), synthetic monitoring and (Catchpoing), and log aggregation (Elk)

Experience in dashboarding tools such as Grafana and Kibana

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.