GeoWealth is a leading investment advisory firm based in Chicago which provides a comprehensive and fully integrated wealth management technology platform coupled with best-in-class portfolio management solutions. Our next generation end-to-end advisor platform is modern and always evolving. Accessible through one interface, it provides a holistic solution, assisting Advisors with technology, investment, and back-office needs.

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and develop software systems and automated solutions for operational aspects in an organization. Site Reliability Engineer responsibilities include monitoring computer systems and building alerts for various operational issues that computer systems can experience. Ultimately, you will work with our Engineering team to ensure our organization can continue to deliver products and services in our computer system environment.

Main Responsibilites;

• Monitor availability, latency, and overall system health

. Focus on automation and data mining opportunities for improved observability, maintainability, and security

• Create dashboards communicating the health of systems

• Bring up additional serving capacity

• Use the monitoring systems (for alerting and dashboards)

• Understand utilization trends and make scaling and decommissioning recommendations.

• Manage the production incident response process with a focus on minimizing MTTR

• Involved in the deployment process, helping to manage the risk involved with the introduction of change to production environments

• Contribute to capacity planning, demand forecasting, software performance analysis, and systems tuning

• Helps establish and monitor service level objectives for processes and systems

• Improve and keep documentation updated

• Help overall knowledge sharing across GeoWealth

• Takes proactive steps to address issues before they become problems

 

Job skills :

• Diverse experience in information technology in the areas of development, quality assurance, and/or operations.

• Experience implementing and using system monitoring tools

• Experience with continuous integration, deployment, and release management processes and tools

• Creative problem-solving skills with positive, action-oriented attitude and independent thinking

• Experience creating Physical and Logical design documents

• Work well in a distributed, fast-paced, and dynamic team environment

 

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field preferred.

• 5 plus years of IT experience in development, quality assurance, and/or operations

• Experience with monitoring/alerting microservice architecture systems with Akka and OpenTelemetry

• Experience monitoring/alerting JVM applications using JMX

• Knowledge of enterprise Java frameworks

• Demonstrated ability to solve problems and think beyond the path of least resistance, creating and realizing a vision for providing actionable insight into the health of our solutions

• Strong oral and written communication skills

 

Our offer:

. You will be part of our highly capable and experienced technology team

. Casual work environment with fun, hard-working, and open-minded colleagues

. Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses

. Comprehensive health plan

. Convenient office location

. Flexible work schedule and work from home options

. 25 days paid annual leave

. Stocked kitchen and weekly lunches

. Sports card