Site Reliability Engineer

Synechron is a self-funded, leading digital transformation Consulting firm focused on the financial services industry working to accelerate digital initiatives for Banks, Asset Managers and Insurance. We achieve this by providing our clients with innovative solutions that solve their most complex business challenges and combining Synechron’s unique, end-to-end Digital, Business Consulting, and Technology services. Headquartered in New York, we boast 17 offices globally, with over 14,000 team members.

We're looking for a **Senior Platform Engineer** to come help us automate everything, enable our developer teammates, and create and support world-class platforms.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be an integral member of the Platform Engineering team, helping the organization transform into a truly modern cloud-native mode of operation. The goal of the Platform Engineering (PE) team is to reduce friction in the delivery process and improve developer experience. Technical prowess, pragmatic strategic understanding, and ability to make compromises working with the stakeholders are the 3 pillars of this job.

The Senior Platform Engineer will be expected to provide guidance on DevOps practices and tools as well as Azure cloud resources. In addition, this position will mentor teammates and serve as an escalation point for Platform Engineer I's, and II's.

**Responsibilities**:

- Contribute to the strategic planning and direction for the automation and governance platforms Embrace and evangelize automation, infrastructure as code, policy as code and developer enablement
- Lead technical implementations leveraging the team architect
- Be a foreperson on the team and a strong presence in collaboration with other teams and leadership.
- Represent platform capabilities at delivery ceremonies (for example: Architecture Review Board (ARB) and Change Approval Board (CAB))
- Drive forensic troubleshooting and analysis of automation and platform consistency issues Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems, resource, and infrastructure availability and performance optimization
- Azure DevOps Pipelines Kubernetes / AKS / EKS CI/CD Patterns
- Foster the team's growth through hiring, onboarding, and mentoring Participation in an on-call rotation

**Experience, Qualifications and Skills**:

- 5+ years of experience in a Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud-Native Engineering, DevOps Engineering or Advocacy role
- Expertise with containers and container orchestration, particularly Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Expertise writing production code with an industry standard programming language using Agile methodologies.
- Strong Scripting Experience
- Expertise practicing Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code techniques Expertise managing multiple code bases in Git
- Expertise creating Continuous Integration builds and deployment automation, for example CI/CD Pipelines

**Nice to have skills**:

- University Degree in a computing related field or equivalent experience Expertise with dotnet, PowerShell, and PowerShell Desired State Configuration Bachelor's degree in a computing related field
- Microsoft Azure or AWS Certifications

**We can offer you**:

- A highly competitive compensation and benefits package
- A multinational organization with 44 offices in 19 countries and the possibility to work abroad
- Maternity & Paternity leave plans
- A comprehensive insurance plan including: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and long-/short-term disability (plans vary by region)
- Retirement savings plans
- A higher education certification policy
- Commuter benefits (varies by region)
- Extensive training opportunities, focused on skills, substantive knowledge, and personal development
- On-demand Udemy for Business for all Synechron employees with free access to more than 5000 curated courses
- Coaching opportunities with experienced colleagues from our Financial Innovation Labs (FinLabs) and Center of Excellences (CoE) groups
- Cutting edge projects at the world’s leading tier-one banks, financial institutions and insurance firms
- A flat and approachable organization
- An excellent working atmosphere: regular drinks, sports activities, offsite weekends with a young, dynamic team
- A truly diverse, fun-loving and global work culture
- SYNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT_

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture - promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital sta