Site Reliability Engineer (Application Support)

Phoenix Arizona

US Citizens & Permanent Residents only (no sponsorship is available).

@Orchard LLC is actively recruiting a Sire Reliability Engineer to support a major management consulting engagement located in the Phoenix AZ area. This is an on-site role at the client responsible for ensuring platform stability scalability and resilience. The environment spans mainframe ETL pipelines databases and distributed systems. This role will be key to minimizing downtime improving performance and enabling reliable delivery of business-critical services.

As the Site Reliability Engineer you will be expected to.

• Support and maintain mission-critical applications developed in COBOL DB2 Pega and Java including diagnosing and resolving application and database performance issues.
• Monitor and maintain the health performance and reliability of large-scale Hadoop clusters and big data environments ensuring optimal resource utilization and uptime.
• Develop automate and optimize data pipelines using SQL Python and PySpark for efficient data ingestion transformation and processing.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues related to Informatica ETL processes ensuring data quality consistency and timely delivery.
• Implement and enforce best practices for site reliability including automated monitoring alerting and incident response for both big data platforms and legacy systems.
• Collaborate with development QA and infrastructure teams to support application deployments upgrades and integration across diverse technologies.
• Document operational procedures incident reports and system configurations to support knowledge sharing and business continuity.
• Continuously evaluate and recommend improvements for system scalability security and reliability in both big data and legacy application environments.
• Ensure data security governance and compliance standards are met within all data engineering processes.

Your background and education will include.

• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent preferred but not required.
• 5 years of experience in Application Support with a strong understanding of monitoring alerting and observability.
• Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering principles (SLIs SLOs SLAs).
• 5 years of experience in Incident management and root cause analysis (RCA).
• Demonstrated understanding of Mainframe environments (z/OS JCL batch processing).
• The ability to work with mainframe teams and understand batch job dependencies and failures.
• Working knowledge of relational databases (Oracle SQL Server DB2 Teradata Hive etc.)
• Experience with performance monitoring tools like Dynatrace Splunk/ELK.

Skills that will make you stand out (but not required)

• Medallion Architecture
• Containerization (Kubernetes / Docker)
• Experience with Marketing applications (Pega Salesforce Adobe Zafin Naehas)
• Visual Basic (.NET)
• SaaS based solutions
• Financial Services industry knowledge.

Compensation: Compensation ranges are determined by several factors including skill set experience licensure and certifications and location. The anticipated range for a base salary for this role is between $60-150K. There may be some flexibility for exceptionally qualified individuals.

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