Senior Systems Software Engineer (SRE)

Providence is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to the principle that every workforce member has the right to work in surroundings that are free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, veteran, military status, religion, age, creed, national origin, sexual identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law. We believe diversity makes us stronger, so we are dedicated to shaping an inclusive workforce, learning from each other, and creating equal opportunities for advancement.

COMPANY

Providence is one of the largest not-for-profit health systems in the United States. At Providence, we use our voice to advocate for vulnerable populations and health care reforms. We pursue innovative ways to transform health care by keeping people healthy, and making our services more convenient, accessible, and affordable for all.

The Digital Innovation Group (DIG) at Providence is a small but mighty product development and incubation team. We build next-gen tools that give patients convenient and easy access to health care anywhere, anytime.

DIG is both a healthcare startup and a technology/product incubator. Our team gathers market data on effective solutions in the health care space and then builds out a product line with the latest technology. When market maturity hits, DIG enables the product to spin out as its own company. We set the pace for other health care organizations on how to conceive, engineer and launch effective health care solutions.

We require your expertise and passion to bring our next set of products to life. We are currently in the initial stages of incubating ideas related to virtual health assistants including triage, symptom pursuit and care navigation using ML and NLP. Success means you will have the opportunity to join future startups on the ground floor.

SUMMARY

We are seeking a Sr. Systems Software Engineer (SRE) who will be focused on building software and automation tools to describe modern cloud native infrastructure, systems, application security, and operational excellence. You are a polyglot programmer familiar with many languages both interpreted (e.g., Python, Ruby) and compiled (Golang, Rust) and who knows modern software stacks in the cloud native landscape.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

In this position you will:

• Write code to automate infrastructure, security and monitoring of systems and services - preferably in Python.
• Have good knowledge of Cloud Networking Infrastructure and related concepts such as DNS, TCP/IP, Routing Protocols, Security Groups, VPN, Firewalls, and NATs.
• Be aware of best practices for observability, availability, latency, scalability and efficiency of distributed systems and applications running in a modern-day Cloud Native Landscape.
• Have intermediate to advanced knowledge in systems administration at the virtualization layer on *nix systems as well as distributed operating systems such as Kubernetes.
• Be part of an On-call team that is responsible for maintenance and stability of the infrastructure for web scale applications 24x7x365.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Science, or Electrical and Computer Engineering or equivalent educ/experience
• 6 years' experience being a systems engineer or part of a systems engineering or working with a cloud infrastructure team working on OS virtualization, cloud networking and Systems and Network security
• 6 years’ experience with one or more of the popular infrastructure-as-code frameworks e.g., Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Puppet.
• 6 years’ experience working with one of AWS, GCP or Azure.
• 6 years' experience writing code in Python, Golang or equivalent languages to automate everything related to infrastructure.
• 6 years' experience with understanding how modern applications are deployed onto the cloud, Enterprise Integration Patterns and championing Operational Excellence in such an environment.
• 4 years knowledge of the Linux Operating System, Systems and Network Administration as it relates to modern cloud best practices.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Science, or Electrical and Computer Engineering or equivalent educ/experience
• 2 years’ understanding of the Linux cgroups ecosystem and technologies surrounding it e.g., Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes
• 4 years' experience with Systems, Network and Application security best practices, threat models, and defensive security best practices.
• 2+ years’ experience with Azure
• 2 years being a member of the talent acquisition process and hiring excellent engineers

Pay Range: $180,000 to $200,000 in Canadian dollars

The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.

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