Software Engineer IV, SRE

Software Engineers at UKG Technology and Innovation have a breadth of knowledge encompassing all aspects of service delivery. They develop software solutions to enhance, harden and support our service delivery processes. This can include building and managing CI/CD deployment pipelines, automated testing, capacity planning, performance analysis, monitoring, alerting, chaos engineering and auto remediation. Software Engineers must have a passion for learning and evolving with current technology trends. They strive to innovate and are relentless in their pursuit of a flawless customer experience. They have an "automate everything" mindset, helping our company deploy services with incredible speed, consistency and availability.

Here at UKG, Our Purpose Is People. UKG combines the strength and innovation of Ultimate Software and Kronos, uniting two award-winning, employee-centered cultures. Our employees are an extraordinary group of talented, energetic, and innovative people who care about more than just work. We strive to create a culture of belonging and an employee experience that empowers our people. UKG has more than 13,000 employees around the globe and is known for its inclusive workplace culture. Ready to be inspired? Learn more at www.ukg.com/careers

• Work closely with Site Reliability Engineers to engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services from conception, to inception, including: system design consulting, and capacity planning

• Assist in defining and implementing standards and best practices related to: System Architecture, Deployment, metrics, operational tasks

• Engage with SRE's and Development teams to assist in the development of creative solutions

• Improve system performance, application delivery and efficiency through, automation, process refinement, post mortem reviews, and in-depth configuration analysis

• Engage in Communications across all areas of the organization

Required Qualifications:

• Experience with Cloud based applications

• Experience with Containerization Technologies

• Experience with Microsoft and Linux Technologies

• Experience with Virtualization technologies

• Experience with HTML, CSS, Angular2 or above, .NetCore, ASP.net (VC & Classic)

• Experience writing and executing complex functional feature rich applications along with their long-term maintenance

• Ability to coordinate and direct a design strategy and execute testing of a completely new functional implementation and/or release regression

• Prior experience with a CI system (TeamCity, Jenkins, etc.)

• Ability and willingness to work evenings / nights on occasion.

• Ability to lead and work in projects

• Experience coding in higher-level languages (e.g., Python, Javascript, C++, or Java)

• Experience in configuration and maintenance of applications such as web servers, load balancers, relational databases, storage systems and messaging systems

• Experience with MongoDB, MySQL, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, and others

• Experience with operating systems and TCP/IP network fundamentals

• Experience learning software, frameworks and APIs

• Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Production Engineer, or equivalent

• Experience with distributed system design and architecture

• Experience building and managing CI/CD Pipelines

• Experience with public or private cloud platforms (e.g. GCP, Kubernetes, or Openstack)

• Experience with Production level monitoring and alerting with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A BS in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field of study is preferred

Physical Requirements:

• No unique physical requirements

Travel Requirements:

• 0-5%

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