Associate SRE

$71,300 - $88,000/Yr

Evolent Health - Olympia, WA

Full-time - Entry Level

Olympia, WA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

As an Associate Site Reliability Engineer at Evolent, you will play a crucial role in managing our extensive application suite and cloud infrastructure. This position is part of the Platform Engineering organization, where you will collaborate with a talented team dedicated to transforming the management of cloud infrastructure and application reliability. Your contributions will be instrumental in ensuring that our systems are reliable, scalable, and efficient, ultimately leading to better health outcomes for our clients. In this role, you will be responsible for identifying and implementing solutions for recurring application problems, which is essential for increasing application reliability. You will execute corrective actions identified during post-incident reviews (PIRs) or root cause analyses (RCAs), ensuring that we learn from incidents and improve our systems. Additionally, you will participate in incident management and provide after-hours support as needed. Your responsibilities will also include maintaining observability solutions to gather and analyze system metrics from production systems, identifying performance bottlenecks through Application Performance Management (APM), and resolving these issues. Automation will be a key focus of your work, as you will automate tasks to enhance efficiency and reduce manual effort. Collaboration with Application Engineering teams and other Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) will be vital to ensure the reliability and scalability of our systems. You will also have the opportunity to learn and utilize tools like Terraform and Ansible for provisioning and managing infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Own finding and implementing solutions for recurring application problems to increase application reliability.
• Execute all corrective actions identified as part of post-incident reviews (PIRs) or root cause analyses (RCAs).
• Participate in incident management and after-hours support.
• Maintain observability solutions to gather and analyze system metrics into production systems.
• Identify performance bottlenecks as part of APM and resolve each.
• Automate tasks to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Collaborate with Application Engineering teams and SREs to ensure the reliability and scalability of systems.
• Learn and use Terraform and Ansible to provision and manage infrastructure.

Requirements

• 2+ years of hands-on Azure experience and 3+ years of overall cloud-native experience.
• DevOps/SRE mindset with the ability to identify and automate opportunities.
• Expertise in at least one scripting language: PowerShell, YAML, HCL, or Python.
• Expertise in at least one APM tool: Prometheus, Dynatrace, Application Insight, or DataDog.
• Experience leveraging agile methodology (i.e., Scrumban) to manage project work.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort with a high level of transparency.
• Willingness to learn new technologies.
• Team player.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance benefits
• Bonus component based on pre-defined performance factors
• Work/life balance and flexibility
• Autonomy in work
• Diversity and inclusion initiatives