Site Reliability Engineer

Join the Market Leader in Electric Power Data and Analytics Solutions

The electrical grid is the largest and most complicated machine ever built. Yes Energys industry-leading electric power trading analytics software provides real-time visibility into the massive amount of data generated by the North American electrical grid daily. Our unique and innovative view of the data informs real-time trading decisions and mid-to-long-term investment decisions that keep utility prices low support the energy transition and keep the grid running. Its both challenging work and work with a purpose.

Be a part of our successful growing business during international transformation.

Position Summary

We are hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to serve as a senior hands-on reliability leader across all product lines. This role sits within the Systems Administration team part of the Product Technology Services (PTS) group and is focused squarely on operational excellence: incident response systems availability monitoring and alerting release support and reliability improvements across our production services.

During your working hours you will be expected to take ownership of active incidents: respond to pages coordinate response across engineering teams diagnose production issues restore service quickly and drive clear communication through resolution. Incident response and operational readiness are central to the role not occasional side responsibilities.

This is a senior individual contributor and team-lead role responsible for setting SRE standards mentoring additional SREs as the function grows unblocking engineering teams and improving the systems pipelines and practices that keep Yes Energy products reliable at scale.

Position Details

• Salary Range: Net 14.000 18.000 RON/month
• Location: Hybrid (Bucharest Romania)
• Schedule: Full-time; 2-3 days in the office
• Reporting to: Manager of Systems Administration

Primary Responsibilities

• Respond to pages across all product lines and lead incident response from initial detection through mitigation and recovery while driving root-cause remediation that reduces repeat incidents prevents similar future alerts and improves overall service reliability.
• Serve as the incident owner when online coordinating cross-functional responders and making clear decisions under pressure to restore service quickly.
• Build and improve monitoring alerting dashboards service-level objectives (SLOs) runbooks and escalation processes so issues are detected quickly and responders have useful context.
• Operate and troubleshoot Linux and Windows systems across AWS Azure OCI and related hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
• Support production web applications containers and Kubernetes workloads with a focus on reliability scalability and availability.
• Work with load balancers forward and reverse proxies DNS networking firewalls security groups and traffic-routing patterns to diagnose and resolve availability and performance issues.
• Unblock engineering teams by diagnosing and fixing Jenkins jobs CI/CD pipelines deployment failures environment issues and release blockers.
• Partner with Engineering Security DBA and Product Technology Services teams to improve operational readiness production support models and reliability practices.
• Mentor SRE and Systems team members establish practical standards and help lead the growth of a stronger site reliability function.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field; or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of five years of experience supporting mission-critical production infrastructure SaaS platforms web applications or service-oriented systems.
• Deep hands-on AWS experience including production operations for compute networking IAM storage load balancing monitoring and troubleshooting; greater depth is strongly valued.
• Proven incident management experience including responding to pages leading high-severity incidents coordinating responders writing postmortems and RCA and driving corrective actions.
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes monitoring and alerting systems CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins and Bitbucket and operational automation or scripting.
• Strong communicator and collaborator who can provide technical leadership delegate effectively mentor engineers and unblock teams during high-pressure operational work.
• Working knowledge of scripting and automation tools such as Python PowerShell Bash Terraform CloudFormation Azure CLI or AWS CLI.
• Strong Linux and Windows systems administration and troubleshooting experience in production environments.

Key Competencies & Preferred Qualifications

• Problem Solving: Frames and solves complex ambiguous production issues; surfaces cross-system or systemic failure modes.
• Systems Thinking: Takes a broad holistic view of how software infrastructure and real-time data pipelines interact.
• System Design & Maintenance: Expert ability to build and sustain scalable infrastructure while enforcing strict reliability standards.
• Security & Compliance: Ensures system configurations adhere to robust access controls encryption and data compliance policies.
• Effective Communication: Translates high-pressure incident details into clear calm and actionable updates for stakeholders.
• Prioritization & Time Management: Balances fast-moving high-urgency incident response with long-term strategic reliability projects.
• Team Focus: Fosters an inclusive environment built on a blameless postmortem culture and collaborative knowledge sharing.

At Yes Energy we value connecting directly with candidates. We kindly ask that third-party recruiters and agencies not submit resumes as we are not open to external recruiting partnerships.

ABOUT YES ENERGY

Overview

Yes Energy delivers real-time market data and electric power trading decision solutions. Over 1000 market participants use Yes Energy solutions daily. The business is a leader in all aspects of information content collection and management developing and delivering data and market analytics solutions. Since its inception in 2008 Yes Energy has become a trusted and respected supplier of innovative and reliable solutions focused on the needs of power market analysts traders and trade managers. Yes Energy has a team of over 350 amazing professionals in Boulder CO (HQ); Boston MA; Chicago IL; Glendora CA; Richmond VA; London United Kingdom; Auckland New Zealand; and Bucharest Romania.

Culture

Yes Energy has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Colorado and we have the culture to prove it. At Yes Energy we care about saying Yes to customers. We like to listen learn and develop our solutions in line with their needs. We think about customers as business partners and when we help them be more successful we are more successful too.

Around the office our culture is driven by some pretty fundamental values that were proud of:

• We love innovation and solving tough challenges;
• We are high standards people who combine passion and pride with hard work and rewards of all kinds-- in an ethic that is consistent across the company.
• Were team-focused with a flat hierarchy-- we work in small teams on well-defined projects that directly impact the success of the business;
• We play to the strengths and experience of each person while each of us also works along a continuum of roles adjacent to our focus area. This presents the challenge of maintaining a broad set of skills as well as an opportunity to learn and contribute in many ways.
• We are constantly growing. Professional development happens every day and every year.

Compensation and Benefits

We offer highly competitive salaries and real bonuses that are achievable and that you can impact. Our benefits package includes private medical insurance wellness/gym benefits flexible vacation and flexible work schedules. Yes Energy encourages and funds investment in both formal and informal professional development.

Yes Energy provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race color religion sex national origin age disability genetics or any other protected status. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination compensation and training.