Production Reliability Engineer

The Company

Friedman Vartolo LLP is a fast-growing New York-based law firm specializing in real estate and default services with over 300 employees providing top-tier legal services to our clients in seven states. While our legal expertise sets us apart its our mindset that drives us forward. We bring a fresh fast-paced energy that drives our momentum and shapes how we approach every challenge.

We are a company that chooses to dig deeper solving problems at the root instead of settling for surface fixes. Here there are no passengers because every individual adds value owns outcomes and moves the firm forward. With an underdog mentality we embrace constant elevation always sharpening always climbing and never coasting. When challenges come we row together and lean in as one team to get the job done no matter what.

The Position

We are seeking a Production Reliability Engineer to own the operational health of our deployed internal application portfolio. The portfolio is growing rapidly - many new applications shipping every week - and we need a dedicated owner ensuring that what we deploy stays reliable secure and performant over its lifetime and that the operational footprint stays manageable as the portfolio grows.

This is a hands-on role for an engineer who thinks systematically about reliability communicates clearly during incidents and knows when to retire a deployed application that has outlived its usefulness. You will be the source of truth for is our portfolio healthy and the decision-maker on what gets maintained what gets fixed and what gets retired.

You will work closely with the Senior Technology Manager a DevOps Engineer (counterpart role) and a group of Production Engineers who own initial deployment and 30-day iteration of each application.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the operational health of the firms deployed internal application portfolio
• Lead incident response for production issues; serve as on-call rotation lead
• Manage security patching dependency updates base image refreshes and certificate rotation across the deployed portfolio
• Conduct monthly triage of every deployed application - usage levels error rates security posture retire/keep recommendation
• Maintain the application retirement queue and drive retire/deprecate decisions for low-usage or obsolete applications
• Define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for application uptime performance and reliability
• Partner with the DevOps Engineer to ensure deployment pipelines incorporate reliability requirements from day one
• Produce a weekly portfolio health report - uptime trends open incidents security posture retire/deprecate decisions
• Conduct incident postmortems and drive remediation actions to completion
• Contribute to security and compliance posture work (SOC2 readiness Vanta evidence collection) as it relates to operational reliability

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 5 years professional experience in Site Reliability Engineering DevOps production engineering or equivalent
• Strong incident-response experience - leading incidents not just participating; comfortable owning the on-call rotation
• Experience defining and tracking SLOs and error budgets for production systems
• Strong Azure cloud experience (or directly comparable AWS / GCP experience)
• Hands-on experience with monitoring alerting and observability tooling (Azure Monitor Application Insights Datadog New Relic or equivalent)
• Comfortable reading code in multiple languages (TypeScript Python C# preferred) for incident triage and root-cause analysis
• Understanding of cloud security fundamentals - patching cadence dependency management secret rotation base image hygiene
• Excellent written communication for incident comms postmortems and portfolio reporting

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• Experience managing a portfolio of small-to-medium applications rather than a single monolith
• Experience with security tooling (Huntress Microsoft Defender Vanta similar)
• Familiarity with Databricks data warehouses or analytics platforms
• Experience driving retire/deprecate decisions and the conversations that accompany them
• Experience in regulated industries (legal financial services healthcare)
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (SOC2 ISO 27001) from an operational-evidence perspective

Benefits

Friedman Vartolo LLP is proud to offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support the well-being and security of our team. Our benefits include:

• Paid parental leave options
• Short and long-term disability leave options
• Comprehensive medical dental and vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Dependent Care plans
• Commuter benefits including transit and parking options
• Pet insurance to help care for your furry family members
• 401(k) retirement plans with employer contributions
• Gym and fitness reimbursements to support a healthy lifestyle
• Annual business expense reimbursements for attorneys
• Annual $500 travel budget to attend firm sponsored social events
• Hybrid work flexibility available after 90 days of employment *

*Dependent upon specific position requirements and firm business needs

Equal Opportunity Employer

Friedman Vartolo LLP is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin age disability veteran status or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws.

ADA Compliance

Friedman Vartolo LLP is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). We will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities unless doing so would impose an undue hardship.

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