Associate Principal, Site Reliability Engineering

What You'll Do :

Provide strong support for the availability and performance of OCC's next generation Ovation platform. Enhance system reliability and developer productivity through automation. Provide guidance to development, platform teams, in the areas of cloud technologies, application profiling and monitoring, logging, metrics collection and analysis.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities :

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

Collaborate with development, operations and infrastructure teams to ensure availability of services, and to work through implementation issues

Develop automation for incident response and to prevent problem recurrence

Create and enhance runbooks to respond to service outages or degradations

Assess the production readiness of services

Define and track operational metrics for production performance, reliability, scalability and availability

Architect, develop and maintain shared services and tools to improve reliability and reduce toil across the organization

Contribute to the team's continuous improvement through research, retrospectives, discussion groups and code reviews

Influences timelines and expectations amongst the team

Provide knowledge by guiding and mentoring junior members, and preparing stories for the sprint backlog

Supervisory Responsibilities :

None

Qualifications :

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and / or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

[Required] Experience with maintaining and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems

[Required] Experience with Agile / Scrum methodology

[Required] Able to succeed in fast-paced environment with frequent changes

[Required] Comfortable communicating with both technical and non-technical audiences

[Required] Strong documentation skills

[Required] Analytical problem-solving approach

[Required] Self-starter - takes the initiative to research, learn and deliver. Anticipates the play

[Required] Team player - humble, collaborative, and focused on making sure the entire team succeeds

Technical Skills :

[Required] Experience managing infrastructure in public cloud environments like AWS (preferred), Azure or GCP

[Required] Experience with AIOps and predictive analysis for anomaly detection, forecasting system capacity using monitoring and alerting tools like Splunk, AppDynamics, Datadog, StackDriver, Sysdig, Prometheus or Grafana

[Required] Programming / scripting experience in languages like Java, Bash, Python or Go

[Required] Experience with distributed messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or ActiveMQ

[Required] Experience with container orchestration systems like Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarm or Rancher

[Required] Experience with using Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI / CD) tools like Jenkins, Travis, Harness, Appveyor, CodeBuild or CodePipeline

[Required] Familiarity with leveraging large language models (LLMs) to automate and optimize SRE workflows. This may include using AI-powered tools to perform tasks such as, writing scripts, summarizing incident reports, or even creating and maintaining AI workloads.

[Required] Familiarity with leveraging large language models (LLMs) to automate and optimize SRE workflows. This may include using AI-powered tools to perform tasks such as, writing scripts, summarizing incident reports, data analysis or even creating and maintaining AI workloads.

[Required] Basic exposure to Chaos Engineering tools like, Gremlin, Chaos Monkey, Harness Chaos Engineering, or cloud-native fault injection services like AWS FIS.

Education and / or Experience :

[Required] Bachelor's or Master's Degrees in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related field, or equivalent work experience

[Required] Minimum of 4+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering / DevOps

Certificates or Licenses :

None Required

About Us

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

Benefits

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include :

• A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work
• Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance
• Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely
• Generous PTO and Parental leave
• 401k Employer Match
• Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

Visit https : / / www.theocc.com / careers / thriving-together for more information.

Compensation

• The salary range listed for any given position is exclusive of fringe benefits and potential bonuses. If hired at OCC, your final base salary compensation will be determined by factors such as skills, experience and / or education.
• In addition, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer.
• We typically do not hire at the maximum of the range in order to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a substantial benefits package as noted on www.theocc.com / careers
• All employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are based on various factors, including, but not limited to, company and individual performance and are not guaranteed.

Salary Range

$118,300.00 - $192,400.00

Incentive Range

8% to 15%

This position is eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award, for which the target range is listed above (see Incentive Range ). The amount of such award, if any, will be based on various factors, including without limitation, both individual and company performance.

Step 1

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Step 2

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Step 3

If you are called in for an interview, a representative from OCC will contact you to set up a date, time, and location.

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OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer