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Site Reliability Engineer

Transfr provides engaging, hands-on training in a way that online lectures cannot. We create a better way to train young adults for the skills they need to succeed on the job. We focus on developing a pipeline of talent for jobs that are going unfilled, significantly reducing cost and risk.

We produce job-training simulations in virtual reality designed by each industry that teaches novices in the same manner that experts master their crafts - through trial and error. Data-driven simulations work like virtual coaches, adapting to every person’s pace and skills while responding to their mistakes. Our immersive Experience Training method helps trainees build confidence in their knowledge, skills and abilities.

Position Summary

Transfr, a leader in the virtual reality educational and training industry, is currently seeking a full-time SRE who will assist in building out visibility and alerting as well as automation, internal tooling, and anything else that will boost operational toughness.

Does this describe you? If so, we encourage you to apply!

>> You enjoy working with other teams and thinking of them as your customers.
>> You know when to push a solution and when to compromise.
>> You love learning and testing out new or different solutions to open-ended problems.
>> You want to write the rules and take ownership for reliability disciplines on a foundations team.

Like you, we value flexibility. While our main office is headquartered in NYC, this position can operate 100% remote anywhere within the United States.

Responsibilities

  • Building out and owning system and app observability
  • Establishing good development and deployment practices
  • Building out a playbook for operations enablement as well as escalation procedures
  • Building out and improving various workflow automations
  • Implementing or authoring new development tools and infrastructure
  • Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
  • Maintaining documentation for our team’s custom tools and workflow automations
  • Participate in general technical operations on-call rotations
  • Perform root cause analysis for relevant production errors

Qualifications

  • Experience as an site reliability, infrastructure, cloud, platform, internal tools, or similar
  • Strong interest and desire to build out site reliability practices at a rapidly growing company
  • High level of skill in the realm of system and app observability such as: Metric and log collection and aggregation; Infrastructure instrumentation; APM; Dashboard authoring; Alerting
  • High level of skill in workflow automation such as: Deployments; Config changes; Various types of tests; Other integrations such as style, static code analysis, vulnerability analysis, etc
  • Moderate-to-high level of skill in general programing and scripting such as: Linux/Unix shell scripting; Internal tools development; Backend services; Integration systems
  • Moderate comfort with cloud APIs and related auth
  • Moderate comfort with cloud networking and basic networking concepts such as DNS, IPv4, basic routing, what proxy and web servers do, etc
  • Moderate comfort in a Linux environment (we use Amazon linux, Ubuntu, and Firecracker)
Our technical operations practice is committed to a balance of correctness and pragmatism. We consider other teams our customers. For our customers, we strive to produce high-quality platforms, tools, documentation, and playbooks to aid them in their missions.

The following is a list of technologies we currently utilize. Extra credit if you have experience with:

>> Workflow automation: GitHub Actions or similar
>> Tools languages: Python, Bash (investigating others as well)
>> Infrastructure as code: Terraform
>> Container orchestration: AWS ECS
>> Cloud API and networking: AWS-based (VPC, ALBs, CloudFront, API Gateway, IAM)
>> Logging services: CloudWatch Logs and Datadog
>> Experience with datasource management: MySQL, Postgres, S3, streams, queues
Kanban or scrum experience is a plus

What We Offer

The base salary range for this position is expected to be between $120K and $140K, with the actual base salary amount dependent on a number of factors, including but not limited to a candidate’s credentials, relevant experience, and primary job location. In addition to salary this role will be eligible for additional company benefits such as stock options, 401(k), paid vacation and sick time, and medical/dental/vision insurance.

In Closing… We invite you to join us. Be a part of creating pathways to prosperity by helping to develop training simulations to teach skills that lead to well-paying jobs, for all.

At Transfr, we embrace diversity because it breeds innovation. Transfr is an equal opportunity employer that participates in E-Verify committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants, consultants, and employees, and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

**Must be authorized to work in the United States without restriction**

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TRANSFR’s mission is to create alternative pathways to prosperity. We believe that everyone should be able to find a well-paying job, and that a world where this is true is one that is better for every player in it: the people, the companies that ...

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