Site Reliability Engineer
Charles Schwab Inc. · Austin, Texas, United States · $93K–$120K/yr
Financial Services · 10,001+ employees
About the role
The Site Reliability Engineer will manage systems development life cycle phases including planning, configuration, monitoring, and maintenance in a business-critical environment. They will also automate infrastructure, improve service reliability, and coordinate with vendors and internal teams to resolve technical issues.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have 3-6 years of experience in systems support, scripting, or development within an enterprise environment. A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field is desired, along with a solid foundation in Windows or Linux and experience with cloud-based services.
Benefits
Full description
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.
Your Opportunity
You will be engaged in the preparation and execution of work in several phases of the systems development life cycle including planning, configuration, monitoring, administration and maintenance in a business critical environment. You will work hands on and within the team to improve process, communication, capacity, reliability and capabilities. You will continually look to improve the reliability and effectiveness of the services by implementing monitoring, and correcting tactical and strategic direction where necessary and work with Vendors to troubleshoot system specific problems. You will improve vendor relationships by effectively managing response expectations and driving delivery as well as facilitate coordination of Vendor, Schwab Infrastructure, and tech team contributions to resolve problems.
What you’re good at
- Provide guidance and support for performance, availability, CI/CD, automation, and monitoring/alerting for the Schwab.com SRE team.
- Work with technical and agile teams to prioritize backlog work and incidents• Where possible, lead and train others within the team to increase team capabilities and capacity• Automate deployment, infrastructure and monitoring tools and systems• Enhance, maintain and support various platforms including .Net, Java, Linux and Windows• Support disaster recovery planning and testing• Develop and improve documentation, diagrams, processes and technology • Identify opportunities to improve telemetry, monitoring and increase application reliability• Document processes using a knowledge base repository. • Work through root cause analysis and develop remediation plans to improve reliability• Drive resolution of issues/ completion of work and provide updates to stakeholders as needed • Managing Cloud Environments
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 Qualifications
- 3-6 years of systems support, scripting, or developing in an enterprise environment
* Current working experiene with Schwab systens and processes• Passion for learning, reliability, automation, orchestration and continual improvement• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent experience desired• Solid foundation of Windows and or Linux • Strong verbal and written communication skills • Experience with Cloud Based Services
Preferred Qualifications
In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities