UKG is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with a robust and diverse background in Software Engineering, Software Design, and Systems Architecture with a focus on automation, reliability, and system integration. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is an engineering discipline that combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. An SRE ensures that UKG’s services—both our internally critical and our externally visible systems—have reliability and uptime appropriate to users' needs and a fast rate of improvement while keeping an ever-watchful eye on capacity and performance. At UKG, our Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) come from both development and operations backgrounds with a common passion for running products at scale in production. Our SRE engineers are always seeking to understand how our systems work end to end without boundaries.

Primary/Essential Duties and Key Responsibilities:

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services from conception to inception, including: system design, build, and deployment


• Define and implement standards and best practices related to: System Architecture, Deployment, metrics, operational tasks


• Support services through activities such as monitoring availability, system health, and incident response


• Improve system performance, application delivery, and efficiency through automation, process refinement, post mortem reviews, and in-depth configuration analysis


• Engage in Communications across all areas of the organization

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of resilient systems as well as anti-fragility design patterns


• Knowledge of distributed systems


• Knowledge of service-oriented architectures


• Knowledge of microservice architectures


• Experience in one or more of the following: Python, Go, Angular, .Net Core (C#), JAVA, Node.js


• Experience with Unix/Linux operating systems internals and administration (e.g., filesystems, inodes, system calls) and networking (e.g., TCP/IP, routing, network topologies).


• Experience with containerization, such as Kubernetes, bosh, docker


• Experience with Configuration Management (Puppet/Chef/Ansible)


• Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities


• Ability and willingness to work evenings / nights on occasion (Participate in on-call rotation)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis, and software design.


• Experience with OpenStack


• Experience with administration of ElasticSearch, MySQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, in production environment a PLUS


• Experience with Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform Products


• Exposure to writing SQL scripts preferred


• Technical writing


• Communication


• Auditing


• Development Background


• Gremlin/Chaos Engineering Tools

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Typical Interview Process:

• If your application is selected, a Talent Acquisition Team Member will reach out to schedule a phone screen with them.


• If selected to move forward, you will complete a HackerRank Coding Assessment.


• If you pass, you will either move forward to a technical phone call for an additional screening, OR directly to an onsite interview.


• Offer stage.