Site Reliability Engineer

ABOUT US

NextCapital is the leader in digital advice platforms, providing solutions designed to help everyone retire successfully. NextCapital partners with financial institutions to deliver personalized planning and managed accounts to investors across multiple channels, including 401(k), IRA, and taxable brokerage accounts. The firm's open-architecture digital advice solution provides integrated account aggregation, analytics, planning and portfolio management, and allows partners to customize advice methodology and fiduciary roles.

JOIN THE [HYBRID] TEAM

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 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 closely with our development teams within our Agile development processesHelp us evolve our continuous integration and deployment implementation.
• 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
• Create or enhance automated testing to improve our application's observability and availability
• Design for, and test our disaster recovery processesCreate and maintain system design and operation documentation

• 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
• You have experience working through the SDLC, promoting applications from development all the way to production
• You enjoy working on variety of different projects and try to continuously improve systems and processes
• You must be able to communicate clearly, concisely, and effectively
• You have DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering experience
• You 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 experience creating CI/CD pipelines
• You have experience writing Terraform and/or Ansible code
• You have experience working alongside developers of Ruby and Node.js applications
• You have AWS certification(s)
• You have experience or familiarity with the Google SRE model.

• This position is hybrid and offers true flexibility.
• 401(k) match up to 5%, HSA contributions up to $1,250, Paid maternity/paternity leave, and competitive salary.
• Enjoy a casual work environment surrounded by top quality engineers that enjoy working with each other.
• See your work move into production quickly, and avoid the bureaucracy that slows down larger companies.
• Great culture that is made up of great people , it's a very fun and challenging environment.