Lead Site Reliability Engineer

ABOUT US

NextCapital is the leader in enterprise digital advice. NextCapital partners with world-class institutions to deliver personalized planning and managed accounts to individual investors, whether they're saving for retirement in a 401(k) or IRA or investing in a taxable brokerage account. Our open-architecture digital advice solution provides better outcomes for our partners and individual investors by offering integrated account aggregation, analytics, planning and portfolio management, and customizable advice methodology and fiduciary roles.

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NextCapital is growing, and is taking the next step forward in our evolution. We are moving to an SRE model and building a new SRE team. As part of this effort, NextCapital is looking for experienced Site Reliability Engineers to help make it happen. These engineers will work closely with the Site Reliability Architect, the VP of Technology Operations, and leadership stakeholders in the Software Engineering group as we develop and implement our SRE strategy. We plan to use the Google SRE book as our template and apply as many of its tenets as is practically possible. If you're interested in helping to define a new SRE team as it is built from scratch and to be able to provide your input from the very beginning, we want to talk to you.

• Work as an embedded member of our Software Engineering teams to refine our Agile development processes, with an emphasis on system reliability and maintainability.
• Help us evolve the design and implementation of our Continuous Integration and Delivery processes.
• Develop and deploy Infrastructure as Code in order to support multi-AZ and multi-region application environments in AWS
• Find new and creative ways to increase visibility into the performance, monitoring and alerting of our platform
• Advance our automated testing frameworks to improve our application's observability and availability
• Work with our Security team to ensure that cyber security concepts are integrated throughout the SDLC
• Ensure that High Availability & Disaster Recovery principles and practices are applied consistently across the environmentCreate and maintain system design and operation documentatio

• You have experience building and supporting multi-tier production applications running at AWS or another cloud provider
• You have experience implementing best practices for scaling applications based on performance, reliability, and cost.
• You are passionate about application reliability and automating everything and enjoy trying to continuously improve systems and processes
• You have experience working through the SDLC, promoting applications from development all the way to production
• You have experience creating or managing CI/CD pipelinesYou have experience building application performance metrics and alarms through NewRelic, AppDynamics or other similar tools
• You have experience working with common developer tools and practicesYou must be able to communicate clearly, concisely, and effectively.You have the ability to work independently in a design and project management aspect
• You're an experienced Site Reliability EngineerYou have a BS or MS in Computer Science, related field (Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Math/Physics, Software Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering), or equivalent professional experience

• You have designed and implemented continuous integration and deployment systems
• You have strong coding skills in a modern language
• You have experience working alongside developers of Ruby and Node.js applications
• You have experience working in a heavily regulated or financial industry
• You have experience writing Terraform and/or Ansible codeYou have AWS certification(s)

• Disrupt the financial advice industry by bringing affordable, easy to use financial tools to millions of people
• See your work move into production quickly, and avoid the bureaucracy that slows down larger companies
• Receive great benefits like stock options, employer 401(k) match of 5%, 100% covered Vision plan, HSA employer contributions, partial phone plan reimbursement, work from home reimbursement and more.
• Enjoy a laid back work environment surrounded by top quality engineers that enjoy working with each other
• Get in on the ground floor of a growth stage company where you can have a real impact on the company's future
• Relax with monthly, company wide, guided meditation sessions and employee first initiatives.