Senior Site Reliability Engineer

🕒 July 1

🇮🇳 India – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Empower

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10,000+ employees

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

Finance • Fintech • B2C

Empower is a leading provider of financial services focused on helping individuals and organizations achieve financial freedom through retirement planning and investment management. Serving over 19 million Americans, Empower offers a comprehensive suite of finance-related services, including smart planning and investment advice, and tools like the Empower Personal Dashboard™ for a complete financial view. The company is renowned as a top retirement plan provider and works closely with personal investors, workplace plan savers, plan sponsors, and financial professionals. Empower is also recognized for initiatives in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and has a social commitment that bolsters community impact.

📋 Description

• Design and implement highly available, fault-tolerant systems supporting critical financial transactions • Architect infrastructure solutions using AWS best practices, optimizing for cost, performance, and reliability • Lead complex incident response efforts and coordinate across teams to restore service rapidly • Drive postmortem processes for high-severity incidents and ensure action items are completed • Establish and track SLOs and SLIs for key services • Design and implement disaster recovery strategies and business continuity plans • Build Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform, including modules, workspaces, and state management • Architect and optimize multi-cluster EKS environments with pod autoscaling, cluster autoscaling, and resource optimization • Design observability strategies using Datadog and Splunk, including metrics, dashboards, and alerting • Implement progressive delivery mechanisms such as canary and blue-green deployments within GitOps workflows • Build automation frameworks to reduce operational toil and improve team efficiency • Partner with development teams on application reliability, design reviews, and architectural guidance • Mentor junior and intermediate SREs, conduct code reviews, and provide technical coaching • Contribute to architectural decisions affecting platform reliability and scalability • Evangelize SRE best practices across the engineering organization • Participate in on-call rotations and reduce on-call burden • Implement and maintain zero-trust security controls across infrastructure • Ensure systems meet financial services regulatory requirements and internal compliance standards • Conduct security reviews of infrastructure changes and deployment processes • Participate in audit preparations and respond to compliance-related inquiries

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or similar emphasis, or equivalent experience • 4-7 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (or equivalent), with a track record of operating large-scale production systems • Deep expertise in AWS, with hands-on experience across a broad range of services and architectural patterns • Advanced Kubernetes knowledge, including custom resources, operators, and cluster federation concepts • Expert-level proficiency in Terraform, including module development, state management, and complex workflow orchestration • Strong programming skills in Python and/or Go, with ability to develop production-quality tools and services • Production experience implementing observability at scale using Datadog, Splunk, or similar platforms • Demonstrated experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines at enterprise scale • Deep understanding of GitOps principles and experience with tools like ArgoCD or Flux • Proven ability to lead complex incident response and conduct thorough postmortems • Strong understanding of networking, security, and infrastructure design patterns • Experience mentoring engineers and conducting technical training • Preferred: Experience in financial services or payments industry • Preferred: Deep knowledge of compliance frameworks (SOC 2, PCI DSS, FINRA) • Preferred: AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional) • Preferred: CKA and/or CKAD certifications • Preferred: Experience with service mesh implementations (Istio, Linkerd, Consul) • Preferred: Background in chaos engineering and fault injection testing • Preferred: Experience with FinOps and cloud cost optimization • Preferred: Contributions to open-source projects in the SRE/DevOps space • Preferred: Experience implementing Operational Excellence strategies

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment • Fluid career paths • Internal mobility opportunities • Well-being support • Work-life balance • Inclusive and welcoming work environment • Volunteering opportunities