SRE

<h2>Summary</h2> <p>The Purple Platform Engineer – SRE is a hybrid engineering role combining Site Reliability Engineering excellence, cloudnative software engineering expertise, and deep knowledge of our internal Purple Platform, HealthEquity’s cloudnative application delivery ecosystem.</p> <h2>Responsibilities</h2> <ul> <li>You will design, build, and operate highly reliable systems while enabling product teams to selfserve, deploy, and operate applications securely and efficiently—aligned with the platform’s core tenets: GitOps integration, and cloudnative operational excellence.</li> <li>This role requires an engineer who thrives in modern DevOps environments, understands distributed systems deeply, writes high-quality code, and can translate platform guardrails and policies into a world class developer experience.</li> </ul> <h2>Requirements</h2> <ul> <li><strong>CloudNative Ecosystem</strong></li> <li>Strong Kubernetes expertise (workloads, scaling, networking, operators, CRDs).</li> <li>Advanced containerization practices (Docker multi-stage, security hardening).</li> <li>Hands On Experience implementing service mesh (ISTIO) and API gateways</li> <li>Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).</li> <li>Understanding and ability to configure and troubleshoot MongoDB collections,</li> <li>Redis Cache, Azure Service Bus, Azure Document Storage etc.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Software Engineering Core</strong></p> <ul> <li>Strong background in C# , Python and/or Node.js.</li> <li>Ability to build highly reliable distributed applications and automation tools.</li> <li>Building CI/CD pipelines.</li> <li>Experience with AI Assisted development to improve quality and productivity</li> </ul> <p><strong>GitOps & Platform Delivery</strong></p> <ul> <li>Deep understanding of declarative deployment workflows (Argo CD, Flux).</li> <li>Expertise in Helm, Kustomize, deployment manifests, and environment modeling.</li> <li>Experience integrating automated tests, scans, and policy controls into Git workflows—supporting the platform’s “shift-left feedback and shift-right enforcement” model.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Observability & Monitoring</strong></p> <ul> <li>Strong experience with configuring and using Dynatrace for observability, setting up OpenTelemetry integrations, App Insights</li> <li>Competence using Kusto (KQL), analyzing logs, distributed traces, and performance metrics.</li> <li>Incident response leadership, postmortem writing, error budget management.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Security & Governance</strong></p> <ul> <li>Familiarity with container scanning, supply chain security, SBOM tools.</li> <li>Experience applying and troubleshooting policies for security and using secure</li> <li>secret management (Vault/KMS).</li> <li>Configuring and implementing Managed Identities for secure authentication</li> <li>Understanding of compliance frameworks relevant to healthcare systems.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Developer Tooling & Automation</strong></p> <ul> <li>Building internal tools, CLIs, templates, plug-ins that improve velocity.</li> <li>Knowledge of Backstage or internal developer portals is a plus.</li> <li>Strong scripting skills (Bash, PowerShell, Python, Go utilities).</li> </ul> <p><strong>Preferred Qualifications</strong></p> <ul> <li>3+ Years Experience in large-scale, enterprise-grade cloud native platforms.</li> <li>Previous work in SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Production Engineering roles.</li> <li>Experience with self-service portals and cloud resource orchestration.</li> <li>Familiarity with classification-driven policy models and governance automation.</li> </ul> <p> </p><h2>Selection Process</h2> <p> </p><ol> <li>Screening with Resilient Co. team. </li> <li>First technical interview.</li> <li>Client interview.</li> <li>Manager interview.</li> </ol> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p><p><br></p><p></p>

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