Role Overview
As an Application Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will play a critical role in ensuring the stability, scalability, and reliability of our products and services. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy solutions that enhance the performance and uptime of our applications.
The Application SRE is part of the Enterprise Platform (EP) group and is responsible for supporting and running our standard platforms efficiently and effectively. You will be expected to collaborate closely with other functions within EP (DevOps/Cloud Platforms, Quality Engineering and Developer Experience) to provide robust, integrated and best-in-class solutions for our product engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Implementing Site Reliability Engineering best practices, including error budgeting, service level objectives (SLOs), and monitoring and alerting systems
- Building automation tools and processes to improve the efficiency and reliability of running our products and standard platforms
- Performing capacity planning and system design to ensure that our systems can handle increasing traffic and load
- Troubleshooting complex technical issues and providing root cause analysis to prevent future incidents
- Participating in incident calls to respond to system outages and emergencies
- Collaborating with software developers to define and implement reliability requirements for new products/applications/services
- Conducting post-mortem analyses to identify opportunities for improvement and prevent recurring issues
- Using data-based decision making to be proactive in the prevention of potential incidents and problems
- Supporting product development teams in the implementation of tools, processes, and practices to improve stability, reliability, and extensibility of their products
- Collaborate across the EP function to ensure that standard platforms are best-in-class
- Drive standard implementation of NFRs in new product development and own the deep-dive process to improve problematic application
- Overall management and governance of vulnerabilities and End-of-life within our products
Your profile
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience supporting production applications (ie SRE and/or DevOps roles)
- Practical understanding of implementing SLOs and SLIs
- Knowledge of Windows and/or Linux Systems administration and networking fundamentals
- Experience in implementing Observability and Alerting tools (eg Datadog, Splunk)
- Ability to automate application operations using tools such as Python, Java, Shell Scripting, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, SQL, Ansible
- Knowledge of AWS
- Experience in supporting middleware such as databases, webservers, MQ and Kafka
- Familiarity with containerization technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Ability to work well under pressure and prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment.
- Fluency in English is essential
- Ability to collaborate closely with others.
- Continual Improvement mindset
What Broadridge Offers
- An opportunity to be part of a global leader in fintech innovation.
- A culture of inclusivity, collaboration, and professional development.
- Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a commitment to work-life balance.
- Access to state-of-the-art technologies and tools.
- Continuous learning opportunities through professional development programs and educational assistance.
Broadridge is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds.
Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR), a global Fintech leader with $5 billion in revenues, provides the critical infrastructure that powers investing, corporate governance, and communications to enable better financial lives.
Itiviti was acquired by Broadridge in May 2021 and is now Broadridge Trading and Connectivity Solutions. Our combined offering enables simplification and streamlining of all front office, middle office, and post-trade functions powering connectivity and multi-asset trading across global markets.
