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- United States
- Contract
- Full-time
- Experience
- Senior
- Salary
- $120K – $125K / year
- Posted
- 14 November 2026
- Apply by
- 13 January 2027
A final in-person interview maybe required for this position.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer & Duties
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Sr. SRE) ensures the reliability, performance, and scalability of all platform services. This role combines software engineering and operations expertise to build resilient systems, automate manual work, improve observability, and reduce operational risk. The Sr. SRE partners closely with DevOps, Release Engineering, and Security to embed reliability practices into every stage of the software lifecycle.
Responsibilities
included the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Define and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets for critical services.
- Lead capacity planning, performance tuning, design tuning and availability reviews with product and engineering teams to evaluate and develop system health. Run regular Game Day and disaster recovery exercises to validate platform resilience.
- Eliminate manual “click-ops” by automating infrastructure provisioning, patching, and runtime hygiene using Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Develop tooling to enforce compliance (SOC2, CIS benchmarks) across environments.
- Serve as Tier-2 escalation during incidents to quickly and effectively solve problems and lead technical deep dives and root cause analysis.
- Partner with the Incident Response to improve playbooks, on-call rotations, and postmortems. Reduce mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to recovery (MTTR) through automation and proactive engineering.
- Embed security best practices in system design (IMDSv2, hardened golden images, secret rotation). Work with Security to maintain least-privileged IAM policies, patch compliance, and audit readiness.
- Identify sources of toil and drive automation to eliminate repetitive manual tasks. Contribute to platform “blueprints” and self-service modules so development teams can operate within reliable guardrails.
- Measure system performance and track and publish reliability metrics to leadership; use data to drive iterative improvements, minimize risk, and push system capabilities forward.
- Other duties as assigned by management. Must be able to come to work promptly and regularly. Must be able to take direction and work well with others. Must be able to work under the stress of deadlines. Must be able to concentrate and perform accurately. Must be able to react to change productively.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Systems Engineering roles.
- Required Experience with:
- AWS (multi-account)
- Terraform
- Ansible
- CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Bitbucket, Jenkins, AWS Codebuild, AWS Code Pipeline)
- Observability platforms (New Relic, CloudWatch)
- Background with containers (ECS/Fargate/EKS)
- Resilient architectures
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations (Preferred but not required)
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or Solutions Architect.
- Kubernetes or container certification.
- SRE/DevOps practitioner certifications.
Eligibility
- Foundation Finance Company LLC requires that remote employees must reside in one of the following states to be considered for any of our remote positions: AL, AR, AZ, CO, FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, and WI.
Salary
USD $120,000.00 - USD $125,000.00 /Yr.
About Foundation Finance Company Careers
Foundation Finance Company (FFC), a Great Place to Work® certified company since 2017, is a fast-growing consumer finance company working with home improvement contractors across the U.S. to drive sales through flexible, customer-focused financing options.
Available Benefits
- Day-one Health Benefits (medical, dental, vision, and flexible spending options like HSA or FSA accounts).
- 401(k) with company match enrollment on day-one.
· Paid, Sick and Volunteer Time Off
· Paid Parental Leave Options
- Employer Paid Life and Disability
- Wellbeing on Demand Program
- Flexible Work Environment with a casual dress code
*Employment status (full-time or part-time) may affect eligibility for certain benefits. Some benefits become available only after a specified period of employment. Please refer to our Benefits page for details.
Office environment with significant time spent sitting, typing and talking on the telephone.
Foundation Finance Company provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
If you reside in the state of Colorado, please click on the following link to review our benefits: Foundation Finance Benefits
These benefits are designed to support our employees in their professional growth, health, and overall well-being. Eligibility, coverage details, and enrollment processes will be provided during the onboarding process. At Foundation Finance Company, we are committed to fostering a positive work environment where employees can thrive both personally and professionally.
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