Site Reliability Engineering Manager II

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We, at Flywire, are looking for an experienced Manager II, Site Reliability Engineering to join our team. In this role, you'll help drive reliability, automation and performance within our cloud-based infrastructure. At Flywire, the SRE team is responsible for the lifecycle of production systems. Our team is embedded within Software Engineering teams enabling and empowering them to achieve full speed on shipping reliable and operable systems. They also work at a global scale driving initiatives to achieve production excellence. Coordinate and support daily activities for SREs on the team and partner with their managers to determine approach for managing daily tasks Track success on the team based on established goals and objectives Work on issues of limited scope with the ability to find and execute solutions to routine problems Become embedded within an Engineering team helping them navigate production excellence and advocate for best practices Mentor team members and drive initiatives Drive a design for a feature while understanding system-wide and architectural concerns Understand the basic day-to-day tasks traits of a production environment and participate in on-call support Engage and collaborate with other disciplines within the design, deployment, operation and optimization of services Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack as well as practice incident response and blameless postmortems Identifies opportunities both in processes and tools to improve the overall productivity of the team Identify great talent and excite them to join our team Provide estimations, track progress and manage risk as well as team members' time Participate in an on-call shift along with other disciplines to respond to incidents Become involved in tech communities and add contributions to enhance them Lean into our business domain and needs as well as our company vision, mission and strategy to deliver on our short and long term goals Here's what we're looking for 5 years of experience within the SRE space 2-5 years of leading or managing and developing SRE teams Comfortable with the idea of being or becoming a generalizing specialist as we are aiming to build a multidisciplinary and balanced team based on "t-shaped" individuals. Experience with at least one programming language is required as software engineering is an important part of our work and we actively use and support many different platforms and languages Proficient with testing techniques such TDD or BDD will be highly valued Familiarity with the container ecosystem, cloud infrastructure, build systems and CI/CD tools is key for being successful at this role Comfortable taking ownership of complex systems challenges and help uncover opportunities for improvement Strong communication and collaboration skills, and most importantly, empathy as we enable, empower and encourage our fellow colleagues Some Technologies We Use: Ruby, Java, Kotlin, Go, Node, Python AWS: EC2, ECS, Lambda, Cloudwatch, SQS, RDS, Kinesis, S3, ElasticSearch, DocumentDB Linux, Docker, Terraform, Make, Chef Gitlab, Jenkins Sentry, Sumologic, Honeycomb Our Culture: We are a global company. Our engineering team is distributed across 3 continents and 4 different countries so remote work is allowed! Our engineering practice is shaped around concepts including Agile, Lean, and Extreme Programming. Each team has a high level of autonomy to organize themselves in the way they consider more appropriate to execute their mission. We actively engage in knowledge sharing by hosting internal cross-discipline events. We are active in contributing to open source whenever possible. We contribute to our local communities by hosting different events, Meetups, etc

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