Senior Systems Software Engineer (SRE)

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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. In an increasingly uncertain world, we are committed to high-quality, compassionate health care for everyone—regardless of coverage or ability to pay. We help people and communities' benefit from the best health care model for the future, today.

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 and greatest technology. When market maturity hits, DIG enables the product to spin out as its own company. It is a unique mix of venture capitalists, digital strategists, marketing acumen, product development and engineering all in one group, nestled inside one of the largest health systems. We set the pace for other health care organizations on how to conceive, engineer and launch effective health care solutions.

Recently funded DIG startups include DexCare and Xealth.

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. Additionally, we are pursuing personalized digital engagement for wellness. 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, etc.) and compiled (Golang, Rust, etc.) and who knows modern software stacks in the cloud native landscape. You approach every systems problem from the viewpoint of writing code to facilitate accuracy and repeatability. In addition, you are a capable engineer who understands the nuances of OS level concepts on a *nix system, networking concepts in the cloud e.g., route tables and NAT gateways, security best practices as applies across the OSI stack and a champion of quality and operational best practices of running 24x7 applications in a distributed, fault-tolerant, and secure environment.

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 Cloud Networking Infrastructure and related concepts such as DNS, TCP/IP, Routing Protocols, Security Groups, VPN, Firewalls, NATs etc.
• Have an in-depth understanding of how modern-day web application stacks are built starting from code running on the browser to how system calls in *nix systems manifest themselves.
• 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 etc.
• 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 with good understanding on how to write testable software, data structures and algorithms, microservices and data storage technologies
• 6 years' experience with understanding how modern applications are deployed onto the cloud, Enterprise Integration Patterns and championing Operational Excellence in such an environment e.g., Observability best practices
• 4 years knowledge of the Linux Operating System, Systems and Network Administration as it relates to modern cloud best practices e.g., Linux system calls, IP Tables, SE Linux, DNS/BIND, File Systems, HTTP Services, Email and File sharing
  
  
  
  

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, defensive security best practices, writing code to test systems and applications by employing techniques such as Penetration Testing and Chaos Engineering. Understand best practices for systems, networking, and application security e.g., understand how common injection attacks play out.
• 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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