Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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About the Role

This Senior Site Reliability Engineer position works on-site out of our Sylmar CA or Sunnyvale CA location in the Cardiac Rhythm Management Division.

We are seeking a highly skilled and mission-drivenSenior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)to join our DevOps this critical role you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability scalability performance and operational excellence of a remote monitoring platform designed to help doctors cardiologists and care teams automatically collect and review data from patients with implanted cardiac devices.

This isnt just about keeping servers up; its about building and maintaining the resilient backbone for systems where failure is not an option and where our success directly impacts patient care around the world. You will embed within our DevOps team acting as a bridge between development and operations.

What Youll Do

Design implement and maintain highly available fault-tolerant and resilient systems that meet demanding uptime and safety requirements. Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks in software and infrastructure ensuring low-latency high-throughput and real-time responsiveness for customer-facing services. Define monitor and uphold Service Level Indicators (SLIs) Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets. Develop and implement comprehensive monitoring logging tracing and alerting solutions to provide deep insights into system health and behavior at scale. Automate away manual operational tasks from provisioning and deployment to testing and recovery. Develop and implement strategies for scaling our services and infrastructure to meet evolving business demands including distributed systems and cloud deployments in Azure. Work closely with software engineering security quality and compliance teams to integrate SRE best practices into our operational processes and infrastructure ensuring the integrity availability and confidentiality of our systems that carry sensitive patient health data. Create clear concise and comprehensive documentation runbooks and playbooks for operational procedures. Lead blameless postmortem processes following incidents and drive systematic follow-through on action items. Work with a multi-disciplinary team on challenging problems in a fast-paced environment contributing across architecture reviews incident response capacity planning and reliability roadmap planning.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors in Computer Science Software Engineering Systems Engineering or a related technical discipline; equivalent professional experience will be considered.
• Minimum 7 years of experience working in site reliability software Engineering Systems Engineering or a related technical discipline
• Excellent communication skillswith the demonstrated ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams translate technical complexity for non-technical stakeholders and collaborate with development quality security marketing and regulatory teams.
• Strong analytical problem-solving and debugging skillswith a methodical and structured approach to diagnosing complex distributed system issues under pressure including production incidents with patient safety implications.
• Proficiency in at least one systems or automation programming language(e.g. Python Go Bash PowerShell) for building tooling automation and operational systems.
• Demonstrated expertise with Microsoft Azure including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Azure Monitor Azure DevOps Azure Policy and related managed services.
• Container orchestration expertise hands-on production experience with Kubernetes and Docker at scale including deployment strategies resource management and cluster operations.
• Observability platform experiencewith tools such as Prometheus Grafana the ELK/EFK stack Datadog Azure Monitor or similar enterprise-grade monitoring and tracing platforms.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelinesfor continuous delivery of software in production environments including safe deployment strategies such as blue/green canary and feature flag-gated rollouts.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems including load balancing service meshes microservices message queues and fault-tolerant design patterns.
• Solid Linux & networking fundamentals DNS TCP/IP HTTP/S TLS load balancing and networking in cloud environments.
• Incident management experience including on-call rotation participation structured incident response root cause analysis (RCA) and systematic prevention of recurrence.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in aregulated healthcare medical device or life sciences environment with familiarity in compliance frameworks such as HIPAA.
• Relevant professional certificationssuch as: Microsoft Certified Azure DevOps Engineer Expert Azure Solutions Architect Expert Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS).
• Background incost optimization for cloud-native architectures including FinOps practices for Azure environments.

Experience contributing to or drivingdisaster recovery (DR)design business continuity planning and tabletop exercises.

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In specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.

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