Junior Site Reliability Engineer

We are looking for an Operations Site Reliability Engineer to enhance, support, and troubleshoot our SaaS and VOIP platforms for our Business Technology program. We’re looking for someone with a wide breadth of knowledge, experience, and interest in a range of technology domains. This role will ensure the continued stability of our production applications while improving automation, alerting, and monitoring. We deal with many different technologies; a desire to learn and a hunger to work on challenging projects is a must.

Key Responsibilities:

• Triage, troubleshoot, and fix production problems in every layer of the stack, with a focus on Oracle and billing systems
• Design, develop, improve, and tune logging, monitoring, and alerting
• Create actionable alerts to fix system outages before they occur
• Write software to improve reliability and recoverability of production systems
• Identify manual work, document the fix in the form of a runbook, then automate it away
• Perform and automate system administration tasks
• Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation supporting production systems

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 0-2 years of Oracle systems experience
• 0-2 years of software development experience
• 0-2 years of Linux system administration experience
• 0-2 years of performance engineering experience
• Understanding and experience working with RESTful APIs
• Experience with triaging troubleshooting complex systems
• Experience working with source control
• Experience with containerization and container orchestration
• Experience with application performance monitoring
• Experience with web technology components including relational and SQL Databases, Apache, Tomcat, Java, packet monitoring
• Experience with microservice environments and distributed systems
• Familiarity with front-end technologies
• Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts
• Understanding of general SRE concepts and DevOps principles
• Familiar with the SIP concepts and troubleshooting

Nextiva Core Competencies / DNA:

• Drives Results:  The successful candidate will be action oriented, with a passion for solving problems.  They will bring clarity and simplicity to ambiguous situations.  This individual will challenge the status quo; asking what we can do differently and finding ways to create and build more success.  They are a change agent, prepared to lead and drive changes as we transform. 
• Critical Thinker:  The successful candidate is fact based and data driven, able to understand and articulate the “why,” identifying key drivers and learning from the past.  They are forward-thinking, anticipating problems before they arise.  They’ll recommend and action well thought out solutions, understanding the risks and dependencies. 
• Right Attitude:  The successful candidate will be team-oriented, collaborative and competitive with a winning mindset; they’re resilient and able to easily bounce back from setbacks.  They will be able to zoom in / out, willing to be hands-on to help solve important problems while being a motivating figure for the team along the way.  They will embrace a culture of service and learning with a focus on caring, supporting and respecting our customers and team members.

Compensation, Rewards & Benefits:

The salary or hourly wage offered by Nextiva to external candidates considers a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skills sets, experience, training, licensure and certifications, etc. Our compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Our estimate of the expected hiring range for the position as posted is $57,000 - $84,650 A different level in the job hierarchy may apply to a specific candidate resulting in a different hiring range.

Nextiva provides a comprehensive employee benefits package that includes medical (including supplemental plans for accident, hospitalization and critical illness), telemedicine, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, legal assistance, an Employee Assistance Plan, paid parental bonding leave, PTO for hourly employees and Flexible Time Off (FTO) for salaried employees, an employee long-term savings plan (401k) through Fidelity with Nextiva matching, comprehensive employee wellness programs and loads of learning and development opportunities which are coupled with career paths to last a lifetime.

Interested in joining our amazing team at Nextiva HQ? Apply today as we launch the future of business conversations! 🚀

Established in 2008 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, Nextiva secured $200M from Goldman Sachs in late 2021, valuing the company at $2.7B.To check out what’s going on at Nextiva, check us out on Instagram, Instagram (MX), YouTube, LinkedIn, and the Nextiva blog. 

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