Site Reliability Engineer

Company Description

At Xplor we help businesses succeed by giving them the software, payments, and commerce-accelerating technologies they need to thrive. 

We know our clients and partners because we once were our clients. We understand their industry, customers, and unique goals so that we can help them overcome obstacles and leave a lasting legacy.

Job Description

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is what you get when you treat operations as if it is a software problem.

Our mission is to protect and provide for the software and systems behind Xplor’s services with an ever-watchful eye on their availability, latency, performance, and capacity.  As an SRE you will use your experience in running production-grade software to build automation that allow our systems to run smoothly with minimal intervention.   

This is an ideal role for someone who wants to work through problems and provide solutions that have significant positive impact to our products and customers.

Essential duties and responsibilities include...

• Automate pipelines to production and make it safe, secure, and repeatable so that development teams can self-service
• Configure and manage production workloads in Azure, AWS, and on-premise datacenters
• Construct and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Puppet, Ansible
• Solve problems relating to mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence with the goal of automating response to all non-exceptional service conditions
• Influence and create new designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems
• Build world-class alerting, monitoring, and capacity management systems for the management of our platform’s health
• Participate in on-call rotations as needed
• Other duties as assigned by management

Technologies you will be learning and working with....

• Languages: Python, Bash, Powershell, C#, Java, Terraform Configuration Language
• Workload management: Azure, AWS, container orchestration
• CI/CD: Azure DevOps
• Configuration Management: Ansible, Puppet
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
• Monitoring: Coralogix, Uptrends, OpenTelemetry

Qualifications

• Five years of experience in a software development and/or operations role
• Intermediate experience with CI/CD pipeline technologies
• Professional experience in containerization technologies
• Intermediate experience with scripting (Powershell, Bash, or Python preferred)
• Foundational understanding of API endpoints
• Ability to troubleshoot running applications in a systematic manner
• Comfortable working with applications on-prem and in Azure
• Working proficiency with Git
• Comfortable with Scrum-based development lifecycle
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong and clear written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to translate complex ideas into diagrams, user stories, and ultimately working software
• Strong sense of ownership around producing results

Additional Information

As an Xplorer, you’ll be part of a global network of talented colleagues who support your success. We look for commonalities and shared passions and give people the tools they need to deliver great work and grow at speed.

Some of our perks and benefits:

• 12 weeks Gender Neutral Paid Parental Leave for both primary and secondary carer
• #GiveBackDays/Commitment to social impact – 3 extra days off to volunteer and give back to your local community
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning, plus regular career and growth conversations with your leader, as part of Xplor GPS
• Ongoing dedication to Diversity & Inclusion initiatives such as D&I Council, Global Mentorship Program
• Access to free mental health support
• Flexible working arrangements

The average base salary pay range for this role is between  $80,000 - $100,000

May be considered for a discretionary bonus 

More about us 

Xplor Technologies is a global platform integrating SaaS solutions, embedded payments, and Commerce Accelerating Technologies to help businesses succeed. Xplor provides enterprise-grade SaaS solutions for businesses in “everyday life” verticals: Childcare & Education; Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global cloud-based payment processing platform.

Xplor Technologies serves over 78,000 customers that processed over $36 billion in payments, operating across 20 markets in 2022. 

Good to know

To be considered for employment, you must be legally authorised to work in the location (country) you're applying for. Xplor does not sponsor visas, either at the time of hire or at any later time. 

To learn more about us and our products, please visit www.xplortechnologies.com/us/careers. 

We also invite you to check out our Candidate FAQs for more information about our recruitment process www.xplortechnologies.com/us/recruitment-faqs.

Xplor is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment and creating an inclusive work environment. We provide equal opportunities to all our employees and to all eligible applicants for employment in our company. We do not unfairly discriminate on any ground, including race, religion, color, ancestry, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, ethnic origin, disability or any other category protected by applicable law.

We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.

More about us 

We're the first global platform combining SaaS with embedded payments, and tools to help businesses grow and succeed. We offer software solutions in fast-growing ‘everyday life’ verticals: Education, Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global, cloud-based payments processing platform. Xplor Technologies serves over 106,000 customers that processed over $37 billion in payments, operating across 20 markets in 2023.

Good to know

To be considered for employment, you must be legally authorized to work in the location (country) you're applying for. Xplor does not sponsor visas, either at the time of hire or at any later time. 

We kindly ask you to apply through our careers portal or external job boards only. Please don't send your application via email.

To learn more about us and our products, please visit www.xplortechnologies.com/careers. 

We also invite you to check out our Candidate FAQs for more information about our recruitment process www.xplortechnologies.com/recruitment-faqs.

EEO and Artificial Intelligence

Please note that we do not exclusively rely on artificial intelligence (AI) when making hiring, promotion or any other employment decisions. We don’t have any AI tools in place that are capable of making these kinds of hiring decisions for us.

Xplor is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We're dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community. All Information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. 

Xplor is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. In keeping with our commitment, Xplor will take steps to ensure that people with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. Accordingly, if reasonable accommodation is required to fully participate in the job application or interview process, to perform the essential functions of the position, and/or to receive all other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us via talent@xplortechnologies.com. 

We make it a priority to respond to each person who applies.

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