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Senior DevOps SRE
AscendUnited States - Remote, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 18 Nov 2024
💰 $150,000/yr($140,000/yr – $150,000/yr)
About the role
Senior DevOps SRE
Ascend is a fast-growing SaaS company that helps mid-market and large enterprise customers automate accounts payable processing through text extraction, machine learning and powerful integration into their financial systems – saving them millions each year. Our clients include household names like NASCAR, Panera, Virgin Voyages, Life Time Fitness and PGA Tour as well as many of the nation’s largest and most renown hospitals and health systems, financial services providers, and higher ed institutions.
Ascend is a fully remote company that offers competitive pay, exceptional benefits and unlimited time off. Most importantly, we offer the chance to learn, take ownership and build your career the way you’ve envisioned.
What would you do at Ascend?
The Senior DevOps SRE’s mission is to design, architect, deploy, and maintain enterprise class SaaS infrastructure, monitoring, observability, traceability, tooling, and automation. This role leverages knowledge in development to enhance, modify, engineer, and create solutions to complex problems by proactive measures. The Senior DevOps Engineer is inquisitive and constantly looks for ways to be proactive rather than reactive, driving solutions to issues before they become problems. This Engineer shows great initiative and mentorship, focusing on growing the entire team.
The salary range for this position is $140,000 - $150,000.
Your day-to-day would include:
What is Ascend looking for in a candidate?
Minimum Qualifications & Credentials
Ascend is a fast-growing SaaS company that helps mid-market and large enterprise customers automate accounts payable processing through text extraction, machine learning and powerful integration into their financial systems – saving them millions each year. Our clients include household names like NASCAR, Panera, Virgin Voyages, Life Time Fitness and PGA Tour as well as many of the nation’s largest and most renown hospitals and health systems, financial services providers, and higher ed institutions.
Ascend is a fully remote company that offers competitive pay, exceptional benefits and unlimited time off. Most importantly, we offer the chance to learn, take ownership and build your career the way you’ve envisioned.
What would you do at Ascend?
The Senior DevOps SRE’s mission is to design, architect, deploy, and maintain enterprise class SaaS infrastructure, monitoring, observability, traceability, tooling, and automation. This role leverages knowledge in development to enhance, modify, engineer, and create solutions to complex problems by proactive measures. The Senior DevOps Engineer is inquisitive and constantly looks for ways to be proactive rather than reactive, driving solutions to issues before they become problems. This Engineer shows great initiative and mentorship, focusing on growing the entire team.
The salary range for this position is $140,000 - $150,000.
Your day-to-day would include:
- Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.
- Plan the growth of Ascend’s infrastructure
- Deliver on system SLAs by implementing necessary best practices
- Monitor systems and take corrective actions per guidelines
- Think through security issues and implement controls to prevent and resolve vulnerabilities
- Perform research and POC's for new software to improve performance and stability
- Manage and improve our log analysis systems to ensure optimal search and reporting times
What is Ascend looking for in a candidate?
Minimum Qualifications & Credentials
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or demonstrable work experience (evidence will be required)
- 7 years’ experience in one or more infrastructure roles (DevOps, TechOps, SRE, ITOps …)
- 2 years’ experience in a senior level role with proven success
- Great people skills paired with a high level of assertiveness
- Strong sense of urgency, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize
- Strong leadership, interpersonal, analytical, problem solving, negotiating, facilitation, organizational, prioritization, and decision-making skills
- Diplomat - broker agreement, manage expectations, influence, and partner across the company
- Track Record of Success - has beaten success metrics 90% of the time throughout their career
- Staying Power & Positive Attitude - loves the challenge; can weather the storm
- Deep experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, Lambdas & other AWS high level abstractions)
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