Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Renaissance Learning is a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, providing solutions that help educators enhance student learning experiences. They are seeking an experienced Sr Site Reliability Engineer to join their Engineering Enablement group, focusing on improving application and infrastructure reliability and security while supporting their SaaS platform used by millions of students.
Responsibilities
- Work with engineering, security & governance teams to improve observability, reliability, resiliency, auditability of our systems and minimize/prevent downtime
- Contribute to infrastructure-as-code using Terraform & CloudFormation
- Support CI/CD pipelines which ensures the prompt release of high-quality software
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve infrastructure issues
- Perform Disaster Recovery exercises on our products
- Explore and integrate AI tooling into the SRE workflows
- Be part of an on-call rotation & support off hour incidents & deployments
- Demonstrates strong skills in giving constructive feedback through coaching even without direct reports
Skills
- 5+ years of experience focused on SRE
- Experience in managing & monitoring containerized cloud environments in production, preferably AWS EKS
- Experience with IaC, Configuration Management and Orchestration Tools like Terraform/Docker/Ansible
- Hands-on experience in any of the programming or scripting languages like .NET/Java, Python, Javascript etc
- On Call experience & willingness to be on call during non-work hours and weekends
- Experience working in an agile environment
- BS in Information Systems or Computer Science, related field experience, or both
- Managing Kubernetes Clusters, EKS at Scale using Helm
- Setting up Gitlab & Github pipelines & workflows
- Experience setting up Monitoring, Logging, Alerting & Observability in tools such as NewRelic, Datadog, Grafana. CloudWatch, PagerDuty
- Experience w/Teleport, Hashicorp Boundary etc
- Experience w/RedShift, OpenSearch/ZeroETL
- Experience running Disaster Recovery exercises
- Implementing service level objectives (SLO/SLI/SLA's) & error budgets
- Experience using ClaudeCode using agentic coding, agentic SDLC, enabling/rolling-out agentic DX
Benefits
- World Class Health Benefits: Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision, Telehealth
- Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
- 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with company match
- Paid Vacation and Sick Time Off
- 12Paid Holidays
- Parental Leave (20 total weeks with 14 weeks paid) & Milk Stork program
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Life & Disability Insurance
- Well-being and Employee Assistance Programs
- ***Benefits listed apply to eligible U.S. employees in accordance with Renaissances benefits eligibility criteria. Contractor and other nonemployee roles are not eligible for Renaissance employee benefits.***
Company Overview
Renaissance Learning is an edtech company that provides assessment, reading, and math solutions for pre-K–12 schools and districts. It was founded in 1986, and is headquartered in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.renaissance.com.