Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Ancestry.com Inc.
Lehi, UT, United States
5 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
2 years minimum
Compensation
$106,029.0 - $118,503.0
Working hours
Shift work

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Data Analysis Proxy Servers Bash Shell Software as a Service Cloud Computing Databases Continuous Integration CouchDB Query Languages
+22 more
Monitoring of Systems Issue Tracking Systems Intrusion Detection Systems Python (Programming Language) Microsoft SQL Server MySQL NoSQL Windows PowerShell Systems Development Life Cycle Reliability Engineering Software Engineering TCP/IP Virtualization Technology Scripting Computer Networking Systems Load Balancing Computer Network Technologies Prompt Engineering Firewalls (Computer Science) Cassandra Puppet New Relic (SaaS)

Job description

We are committed to our location flexible work approach, allowing you to choose to work in the nearest office, from your home, or a hybrid of both (subject to location restrictions and roles that are required to be in the office- see the full list of eligible US locations ). We will continue to hire and promote beyond the boundaries of our office locations, to enable broadened possibilities for employee diversity. Together, we work every day to foster a work environment that’s inclusive as well as diverse, and where our people can be themselves. Every idea and perspective is valued so that our products and services reflect the global and diverse clients we serve. Ancestry encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants. Passionate about dedicating your work to enriching people’s lives? Join the curious. You will help maintain high site availability and ensure the best customer experience through complex technical problem resolution, creating and improving procedures, facilitating communication, participating in active incidents, developing in-house tooling, and effectively leveraging AI agentic workflows. Your role is important to the success of Ancestry and requires both depth and breadth in many cloud operations technologies including an understanding of observability practices, incident management, and software development. You will participate in team meetings and team projects as assigned. You will split your time between active incident triage and mitigation, and software development and automation. What you’ll do…

  • Provide frontline support, including the ability to provide technical solutions, for a complex system including a variety of cloud infrastructure technologies, databases, and network systems
  • Analyze data from monitoring tools and take appropriate actions based on patterns, outliers, or anomalies
  • Partner with development teams to find ways to reduce the time to issue detection and resolution
  • Manage bridges with on-call rotational support groups and executives during outage events or as deemed necessary
  • Report on Incident cases through our automation tools and ticket tracking system
  • Research, proof, and author technical documentation
  • Create and maintain AI agentic workflow context
  • Assist in automation and tool development to reduce toil
  • Participate in team meetings and team projects - both independently and as assigned
  • Be available to cover other shifts (i.e.: days, weekends, and holidays)
  • This position is for a night shift from 10 pm - 6 AM MST, Monday-Thursday. The Command Center is a 24x7x365 operation and you will work some holidays, All job offers are contingent on a background check screen that complies with applicable law. For candidates who live in San Francisco, CA, pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Ancestry will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Ancestry is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Ancestry via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Ancestry. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Ancestry as a result of the referral or through other means., Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Platform Site Reliability Engineer for a contract assignment with one of our premier SaaS clients in Lehi, UT. This …

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Requirements

  • 4+ years in a continual, high-availability enterprise production environment
  • 4+ years in managing and monitoring AWS technologies and services with tools like New Relic or AWS Application Signals
  • 2+ years in an enterprise level NOC or Command Center environment
  • 2+ years in developing AI agentic workflows and knowledge of best practices in prompt engineering, context management, and AI SDLC
  • 4+ years in scripting, automation, and software development with knowledge of various languages (e.g. Python, Java,, Bash, Powershell)
  • Demonstrated logical thought processes through new technologies, systems, concepts and procedures, and the ability to use reports and data to improve operational results
  • Document issues leveraging defined processes
  • An understanding of TCP/IP LAN/WAN networking technologies and troubleshooting techniques, virtualization technologies
  • Knowledge of hardware or software-based firewalls, load balancers, intrusion detection systems and proxy servers
  • Knowledge of relational and NoSQL database technology query languages (MSSQL, MySQL, Cassandra and CouchDB, etc)
  • Knowledge of CI/CD tools like Harness, Chef, or Puppet, + $50.00-55.00 per hour Primary Skills: SRE principles (advanced), Observability (advanced), Incident Response (advanced), SaaS operations (advanced), AI tooling (intermediate) Contract Type: W2 Only D…

Benefits & conditions

Join a dedicated team working to connect millions of people with their past and enrich their futures. At Ancestry, you will play a role in pioneering legal solutions that shape the consumer genomics industry. Your contributions will help protect the privacy and stories of our customers while supporting a brand recognized and trusted around the world. We offer a collaborative workplace, competitive compensation, and the opportunity to make a meaningful difference. Compensation As a signatory of the ParityPledge in Support of Women and the ParityPledge in Support of People of Color, Ancestry values pay transparency and pay equity. We are pleased to share the base hourly range for this position: $106,029 - $118,503 with eligibility for bonus, equity and comprehensive benefits including health, dental and vision. The actual salary will vary by geographic region and job experience.

About the company

When you join Ancestry, you join a human-centered company where every person’s story is important. Ancestry®, the global leader in family history, connects everyone with their past so they can discover, preserve, and share their unique family stories. With our unparalleled collection of more than 65 billion records, over 3.5 million subscribers, and over 27 million people in our growing DNA network, customers can discover their family story and gain a new level of understanding about their lives. Over the past 40 years, we’ve built trusted relationships with millions of people who have chosen us as the platform for discovering, preserving, and sharing the most important information about themselves and their families.

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