About the Role
We are seeking experienced, hands-on Software Reliability Engineers to act as evangelists for continuous integration, testing, and safe, automated deployments. This is a practical DevOps and SRE role for practitioners who lead by example to make change safe and easy for development teams. The position is roughly 70% coding and configuration.
Responsibilities
- Conduct targeted engagements with development teams facing challenges getting to safe and rapid release cadence, or struggling with vulnerability resolution.
- Wrap the application in a suite of well-designed tests, most of which can run locally, including smoke tests to be run as part of the deployment process.
- Source and integrate appropriate test data, implementing data masking in lower environments.
- Upgrade to supported runtimes (generally Java or NPM).
- Containerize applications where feasible.
- Upgrade open-source libraries to their latest available major versions (e.g., migrating from Spring 2).
- Upgrade to the latest version of all dependencies, whether installed software, libraries, internal code, base images or operating system.
- Implement processes that allow us to seamlessly stay current.
- Implement continuous library updates using Renovate.
- Introduce best practice source control and branch management.
- Improve code review processes.
- Ensure best practice security patterns, secrets management, authentication and authorization.
- Simplify and automate application deployment processes, including automated database changes with Liquibase and installed software with Ansible.
- Introduce standard observability patterns.
- Overhaul exception handling and logging.
- Implement resilient hot-hot cross-datacenter deployment topologies.
Requirements
- Several years of experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) using multiple test frameworks.
- Excellent understanding of different approaches to automation testing and ability to choose the best approach and drive outcomes with AI support.
- Proficiency in JVM languages and/or TypeScript.
- Highest quality coding skills.
- Excellent understanding of safe practices for critical systems, including deployment architecture and observability.
- Familiarity with multiple continuous integration and deployment systems.
- Excellent understanding of secure coding practices.
- Competent with Docker and Openshift.
- Actively embracing AI coding.
- Comfortable with build automation tools such as Gradle, Maven, and npm.
- Competent with (RedHat) Linux.
Skills
- Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Automation testing
- AI support
- JVM languages
- TypeScript
- Coding
- Deployment architecture
- Observability
- Continuous integration
- Continuous deployment
- Secure coding
- Docker
- Openshift
- AI coding
- Gradle
- Maven
- npm
- Linux
- Spring framework
- Ansible
Experience Level
- Experienced
Salary/Compensations
- $145,000.00 – $175,000.00 annually
About the Company
- RE Partners is a diverse, woman-owned global business shaping the future of business technology consulting and transforming the way organizations thrive in a digital world.
- We pride ourselves on keeping talent happy – our 7% attrition rate speaks volumes.
- Referral bonus available for bringing talented friends.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.
