Upserve

Senior Site Reliability Expert

United States full-time Senior Salary not listed
full-time Senior level Technology & IT Curated
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About the role

About Upserve, Inc.

Upserve is an established restaurant technology and payments platform entering a restart phase under private equity ownership. The company serves independent and multi-location full-service restaurants and operates across software, payments, and financial services.

Role Summary

Our SRE team is responsible for the design, operation and reliability of Upserve’s product infrastructure. We collaborate with teams across the company to make this happen: Developers, QA, PMs, etc.

Key Responsibilities

Initiate and contribute to continuous improvement of our software delivery processes and practices in a multi-location, multidisciplinary team to empower and accelerate product development

Use automation extensively to design, configure, manage, and monitor systems in support of our product development teams

Design and architect operational solutions with the specific goal of increasing the standardization, automation, repeatability, cost-efficiency and consistency of operational tasks

Working with developers and other SREs to design and build scalable, reliable and cost-efficient Cloud infrastructure

Adhere to and advocate for best practices, including Infrastructure as Code, monitoring, high availability, disaster recovery, security, and SRE/DevOps methodologies

Provide timely assistance and remediation solutions during critical situations and production incidents to help resolve service problems (You will be on call for periods of time)

Required Qualifications

●Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services

Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes & Linux Systems

Experience with configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt

Experience with Infrastructure as code practices: we use Terraform & OpenTofu

Ability to read & write complex scripts using Shell

Ability to read & understand programming languages: Python, Ruby, Go, etc.

Good understanding of Agile development and continuous delivery best practices, software engineering tools, processes, methods and testing

Ability to collaborate effectively with other teams

Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and stay focused

Good experience provisioning and managing infrastructures with high availability constraints

Good experience with cloud cost optimization

First 90 Days: Success Outcomes

You are a problem solver who does not shy away from tackling complexity and critical thinking

You have a strong will to learn, grow and get out of your comfort zone

You have great energy and passion for technology

You are able to express yourself flawlessly in English

●You have strong interpersonal skills

Opportunity

Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture and possibility of remote work

Development of high traffic products, used at the global scale

Exposure to modern and proven technology

Opportunity to learn and expand your skill set

Tons of growth opportunities into technical or people management roles

Opportunity to join a fast-paced, high-growth company

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Technology & IT Project Management Python Remote Collaboration Senior Site Senior level

Likely questions

  1. Tell us about work you have done that is close to the Senior Site Reliability Expert role.
  2. How would you approach your first 30 days at Upserve?
  3. Which of Project Management, Python and Remote Collaboration have you used recently, and what did it help you achieve?
  4. How have you led people, improved a process, or made a hard decision in a previous role?
  5. How do you handle busy days, changing priorities, or pressure at work?

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  • A recent example that proves your experience with Project Management, Python and Remote Collaboration.
  • One short story with a problem, your action, and the result.
  • Two examples that show the strengths listed on your CV.
  • A clear reason why this role and company interest you.
  • Your availability, preferred work style, and salary expectations.

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  • What would success look like in the first 90 days?
  • What are the main problems this hire should help solve?
  • How does the team give feedback and measure good work?
  • What does a normal working week look like for this role?
Practice line

I am interested in the Senior Site Reliability Expert role because I can bring practical experience in Project Management, Python and Remote Collaboration, learn the team quickly, and contribute to the outcomes Upserve needs from this hire.

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